Keliza Smith
Guyanese athlete (born 2003)
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Keliza Ashley Smith (born 25 April 2003) is a Guyanese sprinter. She is a multiple-time national champion and Guyanese under-20 national record holder over 100 metres. She was a bronze medalist over 200 metres at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games.[1]
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| Full name | Keliza Ashley Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Guyanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 April 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 60m: 7.28 (Lubbock, 2025) 100m: 11.37 (Leonora, 2022) NU20R 200m: 23.08 (Lubbock, 2025) 400m: 52.91 (Tuscaloosa, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Smith is a member of the Running Brave Athletic Club (RBAC).[2] She won at the senior Guyanese Athletics Championships for the first time in 2019, winning over 400 metres in Georgetown, Guyana.[3]
In 2022, she won the Guyanese national championships titles over 100 metres and 200 metres, setting a new championship record for the 100 metres and a new Guyanese under-20 record for the 200 metres at the championships.[4]
In February 2025, Smith won over 60 metres and 400 metres competing for Barton Community College women’s track and field team in the United States at the KJCCC/Region 6 Indoor Championships in Lubbock, Texas.[5]
Smith was the bronze medalist over 200 metres at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, Paraguay, having qualified for the final with a time of 23.08 seconds before running 23.42 seconds in the final to finish behind Marlet Ospino of Colombia and Liranyi Alonso of the Dominican Republic.[6][7]
Smith was the bronze medalist over 100 metres at the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, running 11.62 seconds to reach the final and 11.59 seconds in the final.[8]
In July 2026, she competed in the 100 metres at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.[9] She was also a semi-finalist in the women's 200 metres at the Games in Glasgow, Scotland.[10]
