- Natasha Hastings
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Natasha Hastings Personal information Nationality American Born July 23, 1986
Brooklyn, New YorkResidence Locust Grove, Georgia Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) Weight 135 lb (61 kg) Sport Sport Running Event(s) 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres College/university team University of South Carolina Achievements and titles Personal best(s) 100 m: 11.40 s (Athens 2010)
400 m: 49.84 s (Indianapolis 2007)
200 m: 22.61 s (Gainesville 2007)Medal recordWomen's athletics Competitor for the 
United StatesOlympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing 4×400 m relay World Championships Gold 2007 Osaka 4×400 m relay Gold 2009 Berlin 4×400 m relay Gold 2011 Daegu 4×400 m relay World Indoor Championships Gold 2010 Doha 4×400 m relay World Junior Championships Gold 2004 Grosseto 400 m Gold 2004 Grosseto 4×400 m relay Pan American Junior Championships Gold 2003 Bridgetown 4×400 m relay Gold 2005 Windsor 400 m Gold 2005 Windsor 4×400 m relay Natasha Monique Hastings (born July 23, 1986) is an American sprint athlete of Jamaican and Trinidadian descent.[1]
Hastings began her track career at a very early age and made a first place win at the USATF Junior Olympics in the 400 metres in the Youth Girls division.[1] She attended A. Philip Randolph Campus High School in Harlem, New York,[2] where she was able to take her track and field interest to a more competitive level.
Hastings attended the University of South Carolina to work under Curtis Frye.[3] There, Hastings started to become known as "the 400M Diva” after accidentally describing the ladies track team as the "Gamecock Divas" in honor of the school's mascot,[4] the Gamecock. After coming back from a key injury, 2007 was considered Hastings' breakout year. Hastings went home to New York for the New Balance Collegiate Invitational and won the 400 m race in 51.70, a personal record at the time, and anchored the 4×400m to a win with the fastest collegiate time for the year. Also in 2007, she won the SEC Championships by running a 50.84. Hastings went on to win the NCAA Championship title and her time in the 400 m at 50.15 was the second fastest time ever on the collegiate level and she had successfully competed undefeated all season becoming the Indoor and Outdoor 400 m champion.[5]
In 2008 at the age of 22, Hastings made the USA Olympic Track and Field Team.[6] She won an Olympic Gold Medal in the Women’s 4×400 m relay team by running a 49.87 split at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
References
- ^ a b "TrackMom.com". http://trackmom.com/2010/01/14/natasha-hastings-a-story-started-in-her-youth/. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
- ^ "USATF". http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/Hastings_Natasha.asp.
- ^ http://gamecocksonline.cstv.com/sports/c-track/mtt/hastings_natasha00.html. Extracted 24 August 2009.
- ^ "The State Newspaper". http://www.gogamecocks.com/2011/05/02/109816/ggf-gold-medal-drives-gamecock.html. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Player Bio-USATF". 2003-2010. http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/Hastings_Natasha.asp.
- ^ "2008 NBC Olympics". http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=179/bio/index.html.
External links
- IAAF profile for Natasha Hastings
Olympic Champions in Women's 4×400 m relay 1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt) • 1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer) • 1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goistchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova) • 1984: United States (Leatherwood, Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough) • 1988: Sovie Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina) • 1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina) • 1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson) • 2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson) • 2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Cox, Robinson) • 2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
World Indoor Champions in Women's 4×400 m Relay 1991: Germany (Seuser, Schreiter, Hesselbarth, Breuer) • 1993: Jamaica (Hemmings, Grant, Rattray-Williams, Richards) • 1995: Russia (Chebykina, Ruzina, Kulikova, Goncharenko) • 1997: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Alekseyeva) • 1999: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Nazarova) • 2001: Russia (Nosova, Zykina, Sotnikova, Kotlyarova) • 2003: Russia (Antyukh, Pechonkina, Zykina, Nazarova) • 2004: Russia (Krasnomovets, Kotlyarova, Levina, Nazarova) • 2006: Russia (Levina, Nazarova, Krasnomovets, Antyukh) • 2008: Russia (Gushchina, Levina, Nazarova, Zykina) • 2010: United States (Dunn, Trotter, Hastings, Felix)
Categories:- 1986 births
- Living people
- African American track and field athletes
- American sprinters
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- People from Brooklyn
- African American female track and field athletes
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