Carrie Russell

Personal information
Nationality	Jamaican
Born	(1990-10-18) 18 October 1990
Sport
Sport	Track and field Bobsleigh
Event	100m
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Jamaica World Championships 2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay Summer Universiade 2011 Shenzhen 100 m World Relay Championships 2014 Nassau 4×100 m relay

Carrie Russell (born 18 October 1990) is a Jamaican track and field sprinter^[1] and bobsledder. She competed in the 4x100 metres relay event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, winning a gold medal. She is from the parish of St. Thomas. She attended the St. Thomas Technical High School. She was also the bronze medallist at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics.^[2]

In addition to her athletics career, Russell has competed as a bobsleigh brakeman for Jamaica since the 2016–17 season. In January 2018 she was part of the Jamaican bobsleigh crew that secured qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongchang, South Korea, the first time that a Jamaican women's team competed at the Winter Olympics.^[3]

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