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  Sevatheda Fynes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sevatheda Fynes (born October 17, 1974) is a Track and Field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sevatheda_Fynes   (310 words)

  
 The State News - Sports Page - Monday, June 16, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Three-time 1997 NCAA champion sprinter Sevatheda Fynes, a junior, won the George Alderton Female Athlete of the Year award.
Fynes won the 55-meter indoor championship, as well as the 100 and 200-meter outdoor titles.
Fynes has the world's fastest time, 22.60 seconds, in the 200 this year.
www.statenews.com /editionssummer97/061697/sports.html   (405 words)

  
 The State News - Sports Page - Friday, January 31, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sevatheda Fynes had just combined with her teammates to win the silver medal in the 400-meter relay for the Bahamas.
Fynes, a 22-year-old physical education and exercise science junior, is making her first appearance on the MSU track and field team this spring after transferring from Eastern Michigan University.
Fynes will take aim at her goal time of 6.6 seconds in the 55-meter dash Saturday at the Spartan Invitational.
www.statenews.com /editionsspring97/013197/sports.html   (591 words)

  
 Track & Field Michigan State University Spartans, Official Athletic Site - Track & Field
Junior Sevatheda Fynes, the 1997 NCAA indoor champion in the 55 meters, leads the Spartan contingent.
Fynes, a native of Cooper's Town, Bahamas, will be joined by teammates Chandra Burns (Detroit) and Stephanie Dueringer (Champaign, Ill.), while the men's team will be represented by Brad Fields (Kentwood) and Kyle Baker (Anderson, Ind.).
Fynes, who will compete in the 100 and 200 meters, is looking to become the first Spartan female to win multiple national titles.
msuspartans.cstv.com /sports/c-track/archive/9798spec-rel/msu-m-track-spec-rel-14.html   (433 words)

  
 The Nassau Guardian - Sevatheda Fynes third in France
The Nassau Guardian - Sevatheda Fynes third in France
Bahamian Olympian Sevatheda Fynes ran third in the 60 metres on Sunday in France in the final stop of the four-leg Energizer Euro Series at the Meeting Gaz de France du Pas de Calais.
Fynes ran 7.22 seconds in the 60 metres to finish behind France's Muriel Hurtis, who won in 7.09.
www.thenassauguardian.com /sports/11914610105552.php   (61 words)

  
 MarionJonesUSA.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
And three Bahamians — Sevatheda Fynes, Debbie Ferguson and Chandra Sturrup — made the final.
Fynes is a former NCAA 100-meter champion from Michigan State.
Jones' American teammate Chryste Gaines was fifth in her semifinal heat and failed to qualify for the final.
web.insidevc.com /marionjones/coverage/20000923jones1.shtml   (580 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - Campbell grabs silver - Sunday | July 28, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas (centre) stands between Veronica Campbell of Jamaica (left) and Sevatheda Fynes of the Bahamas (right) after the Women's 100m Final in the 2002 Commonwealth Games at Manchester City Stadium yesterday.
Ferguson won gold 10.91 seconds and silver and bronze went to Campbell and Fynes respectively.
Another Bahamian, Sevatheda Fynes, ran her fastest time of the season to take the bronze in 11.07.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020728/sports/sports4.html   (554 words)

  
 USA Track & Field
Top international athletes competing include Olympic 4x100m gold medalist Sevatheda Fynes of the Bahamas in the women's 100m, Olympic 4x100m silver medalist Merlene Frazer of Jamaica in the women's 100, Jamaican Olympian Michael McDonald in the men's 400m and Jamaican Olympian Michelle Freeman in the 100m hurdles.
LaTasha Jenkins, who won the silver medal in the 200 at the 2001 World Indoor Championships and was on the Team USA 4x200 relay that set the world record last year, opened her outdoor season with an impressive time of 11.02 last weekend at the Georgia Invitational.
Fynes was seventh in the 100 at the Olympics and won a gold medal in the 4x100m relay, running lead-off for the Bahamas.
www.usatf.org /news/showRelease.asp?article=/news/releases/2001-05-08-2.xml   (1397 words)

  
 Bahamas Athletics
Ferguson, Sturrup, Fynes, and Davis-Thompson all won gold medals in the 4 x 100 meter relay, and Davis-Thompson also won a silver medal in the 200-meter competition.
Abaco's Fynes, who won a bronze medal in Atlanta, was the leadoff runner, screaming out of the blocks to stretch 5 meters ahead of the pack before handing off to Sturrup, a gold medallist in the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Canada.
On Wednesday at a press conference, outgoing Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham presented the deeds to the plots of land to the sprint relay team of Pauline Davis-Thompson, Eldece Clarke-Lewis and Debbie Ferguson, who were on hand, and Sevatheda Fynes and Chandra Sturrup, who were absent.
www.bahamasgateway.com /athletics.htm   (692 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Athletics - Miller, Greene win 60 meters at Millrose Games - Saturday February 06, 1999 04:28 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Meet officials found little room to separate Miller and Sevatheda Fynes of the Bahamas in the women's 60-meter dash.
Miller, ranked third in the world in the women's 100 meters, was clocked in 7.194 seconds, Fynes in 7.198.
In edging Fynes, Miller joined Lennox Miller as a Millrose champion, making them the first father-daughter winners in the meet's 92-year history.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/02/05/millrose_games   (879 words)

  
 The Nassau Guardian - Gardiner has faith in women's relay team
Gardiner's team to run the first round has Timicka Clarke leading off to Sevatheda Fynes on the back stretch, to Christine Amertil on the curve, with Shandira Brown anchoring.
"Debbie, Timicka, Christine and Shandira ran 43-seconds this year without Chandra and Sevatheda at CAC (Central American and Caribbean Championships) and they won, there, so I think as long as we run under 43 seconds, we'll be up to scratch and get to the final.
Gardiner's "A" team which he hopes to have to run only once, and that's in Saturday's final will be Clarke leading off to Sturrup on the back stretch, Fynes on the curve and Ferguson bringing the baton across the finish line.
www.thenassauguardian.com /sports/279919004070805.php   (377 words)

  
 The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0
GOLDEN GIRLS: Pauline Davis - Thompson (l) Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson and Sevatheda Fynes, after their gold medal success at the Sydney Olympics.
Her mandate is to help mould the Olympic highlights of the next generation of women.
Davis -Thompson along with Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson and Eldece Clarke-Lewis formed The Bahamas' 4x400m relay team and became world-renowned for their gold medalling performances in the Olympic and World Championships, earning them the name, “The Golden Girls”.
www.guardian.co.tt /archives/2004-11-18/SA-8.html   (406 words)

  
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A FYNES EFFORT--Spartan junior and 1996 Olympian track runner Sevatheda Fynes clocked an 11.09 to win the 100-meter dash at the Searays Relays, Knoxville, TN.
The win, registering one of the world's fastest outdoor times this season, placed Fynes in the NCAA Championships.
A native of the Bahamas, Fynes had won the 55-meter title last March at the NCAA Indoor Track Championships in Indianapolis--becoming the first Spartan to win a national indoor title.
www.msu.edu /unit/msuaa/magazine/m97/record.html   (746 words)

  
 Sotomayor establishes self as medal threat - Netcenter Sports Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
American Inger Miller, who seems to constantly settle for second behind her celebrity compatriot Marion Jones, finally had her moment of glory, winning the women's 100 meters.
Miller finished in 10.91, chopping.06 off her season's best to finish ahead of Pauline Davis Thompson of Jamaica, who tied for second with Sevatheda Fynes in 11.04.
American Maurice Greene won the men's 100 meters in a modest 10.01, reestablishing himself as the firm favorite for gold in Sydney.
ww1.sportsline.com /ns/ce/multi/0,1511,2679068,00.html   (828 words)

  
 Echo Online :: Sports :: Maybour dismissed
Bob Maybouer, Eastern Michigan's women's track and field coach since 1985, was fired by the University on Monday.
Maybouer, 58, coached three Eagles who won NCAA titles: Mireille Sankatsing (800-meters), Sevatheda Fynes (200-meters) and Lela Nelson, who won the heptathlon in 2005.
Eastern won 24 Mid-American Conference championships in indoor and outdoor track and field while Maybouer was coach.
www.easternecho.com /cgi-bin/story.cgi?21171   (354 words)

  
 ABACO WELCOMES GOLDEN GIRLS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
There was an outpouring of pride and affection when the five Olympic gold medal girls - Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson and Eldece Clarke-Lewis - visited Abaco on 18th and 19th October.
Abaco athletes Sevatheda Fynes and Troy McIntosh were presented with framed Abaco Markets Ltd shares.
Prime Minister Ingraham congratulated the Olympic athletes and pointed out that he was family to both Sevatheda and Troy along the way.
oii.net /Journal/nov00/golden.shtml   (547 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online:
Lawrence has pushed Olympic champion Marion Jones throughout the season and is the only Commonwealth athlete to have gone under 11 seconds this year.
Her main competition will be from three members of the Bahama's 4x100 meters Olympic gold medal relay team - defending champion Chandra Sturrup, who raced 11,01 seconds in May, Debbie Ferguson and Sevatheda Fynes.
Ferguson is also a strong chance in the 200, along with Jamaican's Beverly McDonald, a Sydney Olympic silver medalist in the 4x400 relay, and 1998 silver medalist Juliet Campbell.
www.mg.co.za /articledirect.aspx?area=mg_flat&articleid=6447   (1059 words)

  
 'Golden Girl' on Queen's honours list - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
In her final international appearance, Davis-Thompson ran the third leg of the quarter mile relay to take the Bahamian team, also known as the Golden Girls, to victory in the quarter-mile relay, ahead of a United States team that included top sprinter Marion Jones.
Davis-Thompson, Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Sevatheda Fynes and Chandra Sturrup were the principal members of the Golden Girls and they were joined later by Debbie-Ann Ferguson to form one of the most lethal relay teams in women's track & field.
They had taken silver at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta behind the Americans, but they came to prominence two years later when they took gold at the track & field World Championships in Seville, Spain.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20040102T220000-0500_53829_OBS__GOLDEN_GIRL__ON_QUEEN_S_HONOURS_LIST.asp   (340 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> Sports -> Ferguson takes 100m title in record time at Commonwealth
Manchester: Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas won the women's 100m Commonwealth Games title on Saturday in a Games record time of 10.90sec.
The 26-year-old beat home Jamaica's 2001 World Junior Champion Veronica Campbell while Ferguson's compatriot Sevatheda Fynes took bronze.
Ferguson, who took world silver in the 200m last year, had been the most impressive performer throughout and was never in trouble as she powered away to land her first senior title.
news.indiainfo.com /2002/07/28/28athletics.html   (139 words)

  
 Behind the Scenes at Sydney Olympics 2000 - Peter Nygård celebrates with the Golden Girls
THE BAHAMAS' women's 4 x 100-metre relay team poses with their gold medals after winning the race Saturday, Sept 30, 2000 at Olympic Stadium during the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
The 'Golden Girls' are, from left, Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson, Pauline Davis-Thompson and Sevatheda Fynes.
On Saturday, the team of Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis Thompson and Debbie Ferguson did the country proud when they repeated what they had done in 1999 at the seventh World Championships - they bought home the gold in the 4x100 metre relay.
www3.nygard.com /corporate/news/gg_behind_scene.html   (145 words)

  
 The Freeport News - Bahamas wins 15 medals, third place overall
Leevan Sands led a Bahamian 1-2 sweep of the men's long jump, with Osbourne Moxey.
The women's 400 metres sprint relay team of Tamicka Clarke, Philipa Arnett-Willie, Sevatheda Fynes and Chandra Sturrup gave a good showing picking up a silver medal for a squad that hasn't practised together.
And Chris Brown took individual bronze in the men's 400 metres.
freeport.nassauguardian.net /sports/283758172217916.php   (674 words)

  
 MY LORD, WHAT A MORNING!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Earlier in the games all three Bahamian 100m female sprinters - Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup and Debbie Ferguson - reached the final eight, a tremendous achievement for such a tiny country.
Abaco's Sevatheda Fynes was lead-off runner and at the gun she screamed out of the blocks and by the time she handed off to Chandra Sturrup she had made up the stagger on the US team.
It had been widely speculated that the Bahamian girls would need a five metre lead at the last exchange to be sure of victory.
oii.net /Journal/nov00/morning.shtml   (580 words)

  
 Graf fails to break record -DAWN - Sport; February 19, 2002
But they were all upstaged by Nigeria’s Chioma Ajunwa, the 1996 Olympic long jump champion, who cruised to victory in 7.06 seconds.
Sevatheda Fynes of the Bahamas was second in 7.09 with Pintusevich-Block third.
America’s Kevin Dilworth dominated the long jump competition, which included world and Olympic champion Ivan Pedroso of Cuba.
www.dawn.com /2002/02/19/spt3.htm   (447 words)

  
 Trial File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Anchor Debbie FERGUSON was the only new addition to the Bahamian team, which won silver in Atlanta.
The other members were 100m finalists Sevatheda FYNES and Chandra STURRUP, and 200m silver medallist Pauline DAVIS-THOMPSON.
The victory by the Bahamas ended the winning streak of the US, which had taken the gold in the last four Olympics.
www.sportz4u.com /isport/news/N00426.html   (159 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: Jones caps unbeaten season with six-figure payday 09/06/98
Jones, who only committed to the sport last year, also won the long jump about an hour earlier, improving to 35-for-35 for all her events in 1998.
``I know anybody's capable of challenging me, so I have to make sure I'm on each time,'' said Jones, who overcame a slow start to beat Sevatheda Fynes of the Bahamas by.27 seconds in the 100.
That victory gave Jones one-third of the $1 million Golden League jackpot, in addition to $200,000 for the women's overall Grand Prix title and $50,000 for the race win.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/090698/spo_124-1668.shtml   (639 words)

  
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The champion athletes are no strangers to the winners' circle, having previously brought in a first-place win at the l999 Pan Am games in Seville, France.
The five luminaries, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Eldece Clark-Lewis, Debbie Ferguson, Sevatheda Fynes, and Chandra Sturrup were honored in their country with sizable beachfront land grants, $40,000 each, and commemorative gold medals.
As you enter Nassau International Airport, you will see pictures of the Golden Girls, standing proud, beauty-full and strong, projecting the aura of the national heroines they have become.
members.tripod.com /~Amasewa/Bahamian-women-athletes-and-politicians.html   (764 words)

  
 23rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference, The University of West Indies at Mona
Even more than formal political independence, the 1961 cricket match in Australia, then, became grounds for the playing out of multiple levels of anti-colonial resistance— the victory of fl West Indian solidarity and the symbolic construction of an independent West Indian nation through political means that are not formally recognisable.
Nearly forty years later in Australia, Pauline Davis-Thompson and her Bahamian teammates Chandra Sturrup, Sevatheda Fynes, and Debbie Ferguson won the gold medal in the historic 4 x 100m relay of the XXVII Olympic Games (Eldece Clarke-Lewis ran all of the rounds except the finals).
Jamaica picked up the silver and the United States had to settle for the bronze.
www.mona.uwi.edu /conferences/literatures/abstracts/campbell.htm   (496 words)

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