Levern Donaline Spencer, SLMM (born 23 June 1984 in Cacao Babonneau, Castries[1][2][3]) is a Saint Lucian retired athlete and high jumper.
[4] She earned a bachelor's degree from Georgia in Health Promotion and Behavior, having first embarked upon a course of study in computer science.
That same year, she earned the bronze medal at the World Youth Championships in Athletics in Debrecen, Hungary, jumping 1.81 m. Earlier in the season, she sailed over 1.84 m, a Saint Lucian national record.
Later that year, she finished in eighth place at the World Junior Championships with 1.83 m, far from the winner, Croatia's Blanka Vlašić.
She was eliminated from competition in the qualifying round, only recording 1.84 m. In 2006, she took gold at the NACAC Under-23 Championships and won bronze at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
During the 2007 season, Spencer won the NACAC Championships and took bronze at the Pan American Games behind Mexico's Romary Rifka and Canada's Nicole Forrester.
In 2008, Spencer, Dominic Johnson and Erma Gene Evans were the only three athletes representing Saint Lucia at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Earlier in the season, she won the 2008 Central American and Caribbean Championships with a jump of 1.91 m. In 2009, Spencer signed her first professional contract with Stellar Group, becoming the first high jumper on their roster.
She won bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 1.88 m. behind Australian Eleanor Patterson (1.94 m) and English jumper Isobel Pooley (1.92 m).
[citation needed] Spencer qualified for the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by clearing 1.94 m at the Meeting Madrid in July.
[12] At the World Championships, she again qualified for the final but finished in 12th place with 1.88 m. On 13 February 2016, Spencer equalled her own national indoor record in Hustopeče, with 1.95 m.[13] A month later, at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships, she placed sixth with 1.93 m, three centimeters away from the gold medal, won by American Vashti Cunningham.
[15] On 14 May, at the IAAF Diamond League tour in Shanghai, she earned a victory with a jump of 1.94 m, on countback ahead of Uzbekistan's Nadiya Dusanova.
For her first outing, she cleared the Commonwealth Games standard with 1.90 m.[21] On 27 January, she won the high jump competition in Hustopeče with 1.93 m, the third best result in the world.