Birth Date: March 25, 1991
Age: 28
Sport: Athletics – Track
Event: 400m
Coach: Aliann Pompey/Joey Scott
Ashley Kelly is a sprinter specializing in the 400m who also competes in the 200m.
An alumna of the University of Illinois where she was an All American athlete, Ashley ran 51.63 at the Tru Fit Miami Invitational in July 2017 to qualify for the IAAF World Championships and also broke her own national record of 52.29, which she set at the 2016 Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Track and Field Championships in the Virgin Islands. Ashely advanced to the Worlds semi-finals with a time of 52.70 seconds after placing third in her heat.
Ashley was the flag bearer at Rio 2016 where she made her first Olympic Summer Games appearance competing in the 200 meters.
She competed in her first Commonwealth Games at Glasgow 2014 where she went through to the semi-finals as she did at the Gold Coast 2018 Games.
Ashley also competed in the Barranquilla 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games, placing 5th with a time of 53.84.
Highlights:
200m (PB 23.69 indoor and 23.17 outdoor)
23.17 (2nd place) Florida Relays
23.98 (1st place) St. Georges, OECS Championship
23.45 (2nd place) TruFit Invitational, Miami
23.52 (3rd place) Alian Pompey Leonora, Guyana
400m (PB 53.01 indoor and 51.63 outdoor)
52.97 (2nd place), Canada
51.63 National Record (1st place) TruFit Invitational, Miami
51.92 (1st Place) Aliann Pompey Leonora, Guyana
52.70 (3rd in heat) London – World Championship
Personal Best
400 meters – 51.63 (National Record)
