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Aleesha Barber

Personal information
Nationality	Trinidad and Tobago
Born	(1987-05-16) 16 May 1987 (age 37)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	100 metres hurdles
College team	Penn State Nittany Lions (USA)
Achievements and titles
Personal best	100 m hurdles: 12.85 (2010)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Trinidad and Tobago Central American and Caribbean Games 2010 Mayagüez 100 m hurdles

Aleesha Barber (born 16 May 1987) is a Trinidadian sprint hurdler. She is a 2007 NCAA All-American honoree, a six-time Big Ten Conference champion, and a seven-time collegiate record holder. She set a personal best time of 12.85 seconds at the 2010 NCAA Eastern First Round Championships on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Barber also won a gold medal for the 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, clocking at 13.09 seconds.

Barber represented Trinidad and Tobago at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 100 m hurdles. She ran in the fifth and final heat against seven other athletes, including Jamaica's Brigitte Foster-Hylton, and United States' Dawn Harper, who later dominated this event by winning an Olympic gold medal. She finished the race in fourth place by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind Kazakhstan's Anastassiya Pilipenko, with a national record-breaking time of 13.01 seconds. Barber, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed eighteenth overall, and was ranked below two mandatory slots for the next round.

Barber is also a member of the track and field team for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and a management graduate at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

See also

• List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleesha Barber". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
2. "Fifteen individuals, two relays qualify for NCAA Championships". Gant Daily. 4 June 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
3. "Barber sprints to CAC hurdles gold". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 27 July 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
4. "Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1 – Heat 5". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.

External links

• Aleesha Barber at World Athletics
• Profile – Penn State Nittany Lions
• TTOC Profile
• NBC Olympics Profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-08-22)
• Aleesha Barber at Olympics.com
• Aleesha Barber at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
• Aleesha Barber at Olympedia (archive)

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