Keliese Spencer-Carter, Beverly McDonald, and Chelsea Hammond Ross were presented with their Olympic medals during a reallocation ceremony on Friday, August 9, at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“I’m tremendously grateful; it has been a long time coming, and I am just so happy that the other two competitors, Nasheena Demous and Hanover, we stuck together and we worked toward this, and we are so grateful that it actually happened,” Spencer-Carter told reporters.

She was presented with a bronze medal in the 400m hurdles following the disqualification of Natalya Antyukh due to a doping scandal. She finished fourth behind Antyukh at the 2012 London Olympics.

Beverly McDonald was also awarded a bronze medal after finishing fourth with a time of 22.35 seconds behind Marion Jones at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Jones was later disqualified after she admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs prior to the Olympics.

“It is a blessing and I am happy that after 24 years, I got fourth and now it went to a bronze. The audience was great here, but it is still not the same, you at the stadium and all the three of you on the podium, but I got a medal that I deserved,” McDonald said.

Additionally, Chelsea Hammond Ross was presented with a bronze medal following her participation in the long jump event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. This follows the disqualification of Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia, who tested positive for using steroids.

The three women were presented with their medals at Champions Park by the International Olympic Committee and representatives from the Jamaica Olympic Association.