Natoya Goule-Toppin

Goule competing in 2019
Personal information
Born	(1991-03-30) 30 March 1991 (age 33) Manchester, Jamaica[1]
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	47 kg (104 lb)
Sport
Country	Jamaica
Sport	Track and field
Event	800 meters
College team	South Plains College LSU Clemson
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	400 m: 51.52 (2011) 800 m: 1:55.96 NR (2023) Indoor 800 m: 1:58.46i NR (2022) 1000 m: 2:37.55i NR (2019)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Jamaica World Indoor Championships 2014 Sopot 4×400 m relay World Relays 2017 Nassau 4×400 m mixed Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 4×400 m relay 2018 Gold Coast 800 m Pan American Games 2019 Lima 800 m 2019 Lima 4×400 m relay NACAC Championships 2018 Toronto 800 m CAC Championships 2013 Morelia 800 m 2011 Mayagüez 4×400 m relay 2011 Mayagüez 800 m CARIFTA Games (Junior) 2008 Basseterre 800 m 2008 Basseterre 1500 m 2009 Vieux Fort 800 m 2009 Vieux Fort 1500 m 2010 George Town 800 m 2010 George Town 1500 m CARIFTA Games (Youth) 2005 Bacolet 800 m 2005 Bacolet 1500 m 2006 Les Abymes 800 m 2006 Les Abymes 1500 m 2007 Providenciales 800 m 2007 Providenciales 1500 m

Natoya Goule-Toppin (born 30 March 1991)^[2] is a Jamaican middle-distance runner. In the 800 metres she is the 2019 Pan American Games champion, 2018 NACAC Championship silver medallist, and 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist. Goule is the current Jamaican record holder at the event both out- and indoors, and also for the indoor 1000 metres.

She has represented Jamaica on numerous occasions, including both the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Running career

Youth

Goule established herself in athletics already by the age of 12, when she ran at the ISSA Athletic Championships in Jamaica.^[3] Representing Manchester High School, she holds records in the Girls' Class 1 1500m as well as the Class 3 800m, and she has accumulated 15 individual gold medals at the Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships, and 12 individual at the CARIFTA Games.^[4][3]

International

Goule first attended South Plains College and ran for their track team. At around the same time South Plains was already recruiting other Jamaican runners, such as Kemoy Campbell. Eventually, however, she would go on to study and run at Louisiana State University. After a few seasons at LSU she transferred to Clemson.

In 2014, racing in the heats, she was a member of Jamaica's women's 4x400 relay team which won the silver medal at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships.^[5][6]

Goule has won races at numerous meetings; for example, in 2022, she won two 800 metres indoor events (NY New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, and World Indoor Tour's Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais where she improved her Jamaican indoor record to 1:58.46), and a 1000-metres indoor event (Clemson Invitational, Clemson, SC).^[2]

She placed fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade with a time of 2:01.18.^[7]

Achievements

International competitions

Representing  Jamaica

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2005	CARIFTA Games (U17)	Bacolet, Trinidad and Tobago	1st	800 m	2:14.16
			1st	1500 m	4:39.05
2006	CARIFTA Games (U17)	Les Abymes, Guadeloupe	1st	800 m	2:09.59
			1st	1500 m	4:32.70
			1st	4 × 400 m	3:43.65
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U17)	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	1st	800 m	2:09.15
			1st	1200 m	3:33.74
			1st	4 × 400 m	3:45.31
2007	CARIFTA Games (U17)	Providenciales, Turks and Caicos	1st	800 m	2:11.68
			1st	1500 m	4:36.26
	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	8th (sf)	800 m	2:08.37
2008	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis	1st	800 m	2:05.90
			1st	1500 m	4:33.69
	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	22nd (h)	800 m	2:09.55
			9th (h)	4 × 400 m	3:38.00
2009	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia	1st	800 m	2:09:27
			1st	1500 m	4:27.48
			1st	4 × 400 m	3:36.21
2010	CARIFTA Games (U20)	George Town, Cayman Islands	1st	800 m	2:06.03
			1st	1500 m	4:36.34
			1st	4 × 400 m	3:37.15
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U20)	Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.	1st	800 m	2:07.20
	World Junior Championships	Moncton, Canada	10th (sf)	800 m	2:05.07
			3rd	4 × 400 m	3:32.24
2011	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Mayagüez, Puerto Rico	3rd	800 m	2:02.83
			1st	4 × 400 m	3:29.86
2013	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Morelia, Mexico	1st	800 m	2:02.02
			–	4 × 400 m	DQ
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	18th (h)	800 m	2:00.93
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	6th	800 m	2:01.89
			2nd	4 × 400 m	3:29.43 [n 1]
	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	5th	4 × 800 m	8:17.22
	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	12th (sf)	800 m	2:04.23
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	33rd (h)	800 m	2:02.37
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	17th (h)	800 m	2:08.23
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	25th (h)	800 m	2:00.49
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	22nd (h)	800 m	2:01.77
2018	World Indoor Championship	Birmingham, United Kingdom	8th (h)	800 m	2:02.49
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	3rd	800 m	1:58.82
	NACAC Championships	Toronto, Canada	2nd	800 m	1:57.95
2019	Pan American Games	Lima, Peru	1st	800 m	2:01.26
			3rd	4 × 400 m	3:27.61
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	6th	800 m	2:00.11
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	8th	800 m	1:58.26
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	4th	800 m i	2:01.18
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	5th	800 m	1:57.90
	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, United Kingdom	4th	800 m	1:57.88
			2nd	4 × 400 m	3:26.93
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	18th (sf)	800 m	2:00.78
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	12th (sf)	800 m	2:01.41

Other competitions