Sprinter Jones released from jail

Disgraced Olympic athlete Marion Jones has been released from a Texas jail.

The gold medallist is celebrating her freedom after leaving a community corrections centre in San Antonio at 8.44am local time on Friday morning, according to website TMZ.com.

Jones was moved to the San Antonio compound from the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth last month, where she has been serving the remainder of her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal investigators about steroid use and fraud.

The three-time Olympic gold medallist has returned all five medals she won during the 2000 Sydney Olympics in Australia.

She became the first professional sports figure to be incarcerated for steroid use after being sentenced in New York in January this year.