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Name
  
Elva Goulbourne


Role
  
Olympic athlete

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Elva Elizabeth Goulbourne (born 21 January 1980 in Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a Jamaican former track and field athlete who specialised in the long jump. Her personal best result is 7.16 m (23 ft 534 in), achieved in 2004.

She represented Jamaica in four consecutive World Championships in Athletics, from 2001 to 2007. Her sole Olympic outing at the 2000 Sydney Games was also her best global performance, placing ninth.

She was the silver medallist in the long jump at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. At the same competition she won silver with the Jamaican women's 4×100 metres relay team. She was the bronze medallist at the 1999 Pan American Games and a two-time champion of the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics (2001 and 2003).

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