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Kendra Harrison is a female athletics competitor from the United States who was born in Tennessee in 1992. She competes in the 60 metres hurdles and 100 metres hurdles disciplines. Harrison represented the United States at the athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – women's 100 metres hurdles. Her professional career began in 2015, and she was a member of the Kentucky Wildcats sports team. She is educated at the University of Kentucky and speaks English.
In addition to her athletic career, Harrison is listed as an author with one work, the Coraline Coloring Book. She is referenced by 383 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Coraline Coloring Book
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1943-02-24
- Active to
- 2001-11-29
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions
· 1992 · cited 14,898x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,803x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,207x
- <i>Planck</i>2015 results
· 2016 · cited 9,874x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Nickname
- Keni Harrison
- Born
- ( 1992-09-18 ) September 18, 1992 (age 33) , Tennessee , U.S.
- Home town
- Clayton, North Carolina , U.S.
- Height
- 5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event s
- 100 meters hurdles , 60 meters hurdles
- College team
- Kentucky
- Team
- Adidas
- Coached by
- Edrick Floréal
- Personal bests
- 100 m hurdles : 12.20 Area (continental) record</span>"}]]}'>AR ( London 2016) 400 m hurdles : 54.09 ( Eugene, OR 2015) Indoors 60 m hurdles : 7.70 Area (continental) record</span>"}]]}'>AR ( Birmingham 2018)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kendra
- Family name
- Harrison
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- athletics
- Member of team
- Kentucky Wildcats
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Kendra Harrison (USA) 2018.jpg
- Height
- 163
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1992-09-18
- Commons category
- Kendra Harrison
- start of work period
- 2015-00-00
- sports discipline competed in
- 100 metres hurdles
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Kendra "Keni" Harrison (born September 18, 1992) is an American hurdler. Harrison held the world record in the women's 100 metres hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds, set on July 22, 2016 at the London Müller Anniversary Games, breaking the previous world record of 12.21 seconds achieved nearly 28 years earlier by Bulgarian athlete Yordanka Donkova.
In college, she competed for the University of Kentucky Wildcats and in 2015 she won NCAA championship titles both indoors and outdoors. She was runner-up in the 100 m hurdles at the 2015 USA Outdoor Championships; at the 2016 Olympic Trials she placed sixth because she tripped, and missed qualifying for the Olympics. Between the US trials and the Olympic Games, she broke the 28 year-old world record. Harrison won the 60 m hurdles at the 2018 World Indoor Championship and the 100 m hurdles at the 2018 NACAC Championships. She placed second in the 100 m hurdles at the 2019 World Championship, and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kendra Harrison” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.