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Khalifa St. Fort
Personal information
Born	13 February 1998 (age 26); Florida, United States
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Country	Trinidad and Tobago
Sport	Track and field
Event	4 × 100m relay
Medal record
World Championships
World Youth Championships
World Junior Championships
Central American and Caribbean Games

Khalifa Halima St. Fort (born 13 February 1998) is a track and field sprinter who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago. She competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres.

Born in the United States to Tamika St. Fort, a native of San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, she grew up in Miami, Florida and attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale. She took up track and field at the age of thirteen, joining Miramar Optimist track and field club. While at high school she struggled to improve her sprinting and her father contacted Ato Boldon, a four-time Olympic medalist for Trinidad and Tobago, for assistance. Boldon decided to coach St. Fort and after a month she improved her best from 12.3 to 11.5 seconds, making her one of the top ranked sprinters for her age group globally.^[2]

St. Fort's first international competition came at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where the 100 m was seen as a duel between her and America's Candace Hill (who had recently broken the World youth best).^[3] St. Fort produced three personal bests at the competition, running 11.39, 11.24, then 11.19 seconds in the final to secure the silver medal behind Hill.^[4] A 100 m gold followed at the 2015 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in the absence of Hill.^[5] Her last major outing of the year was a senior debut at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. She was chosen as the relay alternate and competed in the heats of the 4×100 metres relay, where she broke the Trinidad and Tobago national record with a time of 42.24 seconds, anchoring a team of Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Michelle-Lee Ahye and Reyare Thomas. In the final, she was replaced by Semoy Hackett and the team improved the record further in their bronze medal-winning run. The 17-year-old St. Fort received a bronze medal as the heats runner.^[6]

Personal best edit

Event	Result	Venue	Date
Outdoor
100 metres	11.06 sec	Port of Spain	24 June 2017
200 metres	23.55 sec	Miramar	24 April 2014

International competitions edit

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2015	World Youth Championships	Cali, Colombia	2nd	100 m	11.19
	Pan American Junior Championships	Edmonton, Canada	1st	100 m	11.31
	World Championships	Beijing, China	3rd (h)	4 × 100 m relay	42.24 NR¹
2016	World U20 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd	100 m	11.18
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	5th	4 × 100 m relay	42.12
2017	World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	—	4 × 100 m relay	DNF
	Pan American U20 Championships	Trujillo, Peru	1st	100 m	11.32
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	31st (h)	100 m	11.44
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	6th	4 × 100 m relay	42.62
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	6th	100 m	11.37
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	4th	4 × 100 m relay	43.50
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Barranquilla, Colombia	2nd	100 m	11.15
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Barranquilla, Colombia	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	43.61
	NACAC Championships	Toronto, Canada	6th	100 m	11.28
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	15th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.62
2022	NACAC Championships	Freeport, Bahamas	10th (h)	100 m	11.60
2022	NACAC Championships	Freeport, Bahamas	4th	4 × 100 m relay	43.81

¹Was not selected to run in the final where her team won the bronze

References edit

^ "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 1 May 2018.
^ In her own words: I am Khalifa St Fort — The future of T&T’s track and field. Trinidad Express (20 July 2015). Retrieved on 2015-09-19.
^ Hill looking to climb to the top of the podium in Cali. IAAF (14 July 2015). Retrieved on 2015-09-19.
^ Girls' 100m – IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015. IAAF (17 July 2015). Retrieved on 2015-09-19.
^ Robinson, Javier Clavelo (3 August 2015). Aguilar breaks world junior javelin record at Pan American Junior Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-09-19.
^ Khalifa St. Fort Returns From the IAAF World Championships with Bronze 2015. Dyestatfl (1 September 2015). Retrieved on 2015-09-19.