elaine thompson won the women's 100m sprint in the 2016 olympics.
elaine thompson won the women's 100m sprint in the 2016 olympics.
who won the women's 100m sprint in the 2016 olympics?
elaine thompson
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netball, hockey, and volleyball are also competitive sports in the region, although are not as widely recognized as are cricket and soccer. golf is a sport which is mainly based in barbados' sandy lane resort, which hosted the world golf championships-world cup in 2006. tennis and badminton are on the steady increase in barbados and trinidad & tobago, but they occasionally send national teams to the commonwealth games. athletics is a well established category of sport in the southern caribbean in both the olympics and the commonwealth games. sprinters hailing from the southern caribbean include obadele thompson of barbados, who won bronze at a 100m sprint at the sydney olympic games; ato boldon of trinidad & tobago, who won silver at the 100m sprint at the sydney olympic games; marc burns of trinidad & tobago, who won bronze at the melbourne commonwealth games; trinidad's 1976 montreal olympics gold medallist hasely crawford; and grenada's alleyne francique, who ran the 400m sprint and won the silver medal at the melbourne commonwealth games (2006). during the 2008 beijing olympics, trinidad & tobago earned a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m men's relay, coming second to fellow west indian island, jamaica.
southern caribbean