Savatheda Fynes
Medal record | ||
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Women's athletics | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
Olympic Games | ||
![]() | 2000 Sydney | 4x100 m relay |
![]() | 1996 Atlanta | 4x100 m relay |
World Championships | ||
![]() | 1999 Seville | 4x100 m relay |
![]() | 1997 Athens | 100 m |
Commonwealth Games | ||
![]() | 2002 Manchester | 4x100 m relay |
![]() | 2002 Manchester | 100 m |
CAC Junior Championships (U20) | ||
![]() | 1992 Tegucigalpa | 200 m |
![]() | 1992 Tegucigalpa | 100 m |
CAC Junior Championships (U17) | ||
![]() | 1990 Havana | 4x400 m relay |
![]() | 1990 Havana | 100 m |
![]() | 1990 Havana | 200 m |
![]() | 1990 Havana | 4x100 m relay |
CARIFTA Games Junior (U20) | ||
![]() | 1992 Nassau | 200m |
![]() | 1991 Port of Spain | 100m |
![]() | 1992 Nassau | 100m |
![]() | 1992 Nassau | 4x100m relay |
![]() | 1992 Nassau | 4x400m relay |
![]() | 1993 Fort-de-France | 100m |
![]() | 1993 Fort-de-France | 4x100m relay |
![]() | 1993 Fort-de-France | 4x400m relay |
![]() | 1993 Fort-de-France | 200m |
CARIFTA Games Youth (U17) | ||
![]() | 1990 Kingston | 100m |
Savatheda Fynes Coke (born October 17, 1974) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race. Some sources spell her first name "Sevatheda."
Career
She graduated Physiology and Exercise Science at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. She missed the 2001 World Championships due to injury. She had a minor car accident prior to the 2000 Olympic trials, which limited her training. At the World Championships in 1999 she was eliminated in semifinals due to an injured hip flexor. In 1996 a hamstring injury kept her out of the 100m at the Atlanta Games.
She was a member of the Bahamas 4x100m relay team that won gold at the 1999 World Championships. After that performance the team of Fynes, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson, Chandra Sturrup and Eldece Clark-Lewis were dubbed the Golden Girls. When they won the relay again at the Sydney Olympics they showed the world why they had earned that name. The girls returned home from Sydney to a six-day fanfare of festivities in their honor, from receptions and parades to monetary awards and land grants. Central Bank has even been commissioned to mint a commemorative gold coin to honour their victory.
She earned an athletic scholarship to Southern University at New Orleans, but later transferred to Eastern Michigan University and then to Michigan State University.
She was forced to sit out the 1996 season because she was a transfer. She attended an indoor meet that year and stayed in a hotel room paid for by Michigan State. That being a violation, she lost her final season of eligibility in 1998, and her coach lost her job.
Coaching career
In 2010, Fynes Coke worked as an assistant coach for the NJIT Highlanders track and field team.[1]
Personal bests
- 100 metres: 10.91 seconds in Lausanne 1999
- 60 metres: 7.01 seconds in Maebashi 1999
- 50 metres: 6.05 seconds in Liévin 2000
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1990 | CARIFTA Games (U-17) | Kingston, Jamaica | 3rd | 100 m | 12.20 (1.9 m/s) |
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17) | Havana, Cuba | 2nd | 100 m | 12.13 (0.2 m/s) | |
2nd | 200 m | 24.68 (0.2 m/s) | |||
3rd | 4x100 m relay | 47.66 | |||
1st | 4x400 m relay | 3:47.22 | |||
1991 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 2nd | 100 m | 11.64 (1.7 m/s) |
1992 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Nassau, Bahamas | 2nd | 100 m | 11.52 w (4.7 m/s) |
1st | 200 m | 23.49 w (3.1 m/s) | |||
2nd | 4x100 m relay | 45.61 | |||
2nd | 4x400 m relay | 3:42.37 | |||
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) | Tegucigalpa, Honduras | 2nd | 100 m | 12.1 (0.0 m/s) | |
1st | 200 m | 24.1 (-0.1 m/s) | |||
1993 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Fort-de-France, Martinique | 2nd | 100 m | 11.52 (0.3 m/s) |
3rd | 200 m | 23.81 (-1.2 m/s) | |||
2nd | 4x100 m relay | 45.53 | |||
2nd | 4x400 m relay | 3:39.32 | |||
Central American and Caribbean Championships | Cali, Colombia | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.28 | |
1995 | World Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 6th (qf) | 100 m | 11.36 (0.8 m/s) |
5th (h) | 200 m | 23.01 (-0.5 m/s) | |||
4th | 4 x 100 m relay | 43.14 | |||
1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 6th (qf) | 200 m | 23.26 (0.3 m/s) |
2nd | 4 x 100 m relay | 42.14 | |||
1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 3rd | 100 m | 11.03 (0.4 m/s) |
6th | 4 x 100 m relay | 42.77 | |||
1999 | World Championships | Seville, Spain | 6th (sf) | 100 m | 11.15 (-0.1 m/s) |
1st | 4 x 100 m relay | 41.92 WL | |||
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 7th | 100 m | 11.22 (-0.4 m/s) |
1st | 4 x 100 m relay | 41.95 SB | |||
2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 6th (qf) | 100 m | 11.36 (0.0 m/s) |
3rd (h) | 4 x 100 m relay | 43.64 | |||
2006 | Central American and Caribbean Games | Cartagena, Colombia | 14th (h) | 100 m | 11.75 (+2.3 m/s) |
External links
- Savatheda Fynes at World Athletics
- Savatheda Fynes at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Bahamas Olympic Bio
- Michigan State
- Picture of Savatheda Fynes
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- 1928:
Bobbie Rosenfeld, Ethel Smith, Jane Bell, Myrtle Cook (CAN)
- 1932:
Mary Carew, Evelyn Furtsch, Annette Rogers, Wilhelmina von Bremen (USA)
- 1936:
Harriet Bland, Annette Rogers, Betty Robinson, Helen Stephens (USA)
- 1948:
Xenia Stad-de Jong, Netti Witziers-Timmer, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)
- 1952:
Mae Faggs, Barbara Jones, Janet Moreau, Catherine Hardy (USA)
- 1956:
Shirley Barbara de la Hunty, Norma Croker, Fleur Mellor, Betty Cuthbert (AUS)
- 1960:
Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph (USA)
- 1964:
Teresa Ciepły, Irena Kirszenstein, Halina Górecka, Ewa Kłobukowska (POL)
- 1968:
Barbara Ferrell, Margaret Bailes, Mildrette Netter, Wyomia Tyus (USA)
- 1972:
Christiane Krause, Ingrid Mickler, Annegret Richter, Heide Rosendahl (FRG)
- 1976:
Marlies Göhr, Renate Stecher, Carla Bodendorf, Bärbel Wöckel (GDR)
- 1980:
Romy Müller, Bärbel Wöckel, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr (GDR)
- 1984:
Alice Brown, Jeanette Bolden, Chandra Cheeseborough, Evelyn Ashford (USA)
- 1988:
Alice Brown, Sheila Echols, Florence Griffith Joyner, Evelyn Ashford, Dannette Young (USA)
- 1992:
Evelyn Ashford, Esther Jones, Carlette Guidry, Gwen Torrence, Michelle Finn (USA)
- 1996:
Gail Devers, Inger Miller, Chryste Gaines, Gwen Torrence, Carlette Guidry (USA)
- 2000:
Savatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson, Eldece Lewis (BAH)
- 2004:
Tayna Lawrence, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell, Beverly McDonald (JAM)
- 2008:
Olivia Borlée, Hanna Mariën, Élodie Ouédraogo, Kim Gevaert (BEL)
- 2012:
Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, Carmelita Jeter, Jeneba Tarmoh, Lauryn Williams (USA)
- 2016:
Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, Tori Bowie, English Gardner, Morolake Akinosun (USA)
- 2020:
Briana Williams, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Natasha Morrison, Remona Burchell (JAM)
- 2024:
Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Gabrielle Thomas, Sha'Carri Richardson (USA)
- ^ "Savatheda Fynes Coke - Men's Track & Field Coach". New Jersey Institute of Technology Athletics. Retrieved 28 July 2024.