"below also competed at the 1978 AAA Championships. Sonia Lannaman defended her 100 metres/200 metres sprint double from 1977. Allan Wells took his first sprint double on the men's side and Jane Colebrook managed a double in the 400 metres and 800 metres. Athletes to retain their titles from 1977 included Lannaman, sprint hurdlers Berwyn Price and Sharon Colyear, Geoff Capes (men's shot put), Meg Ritchie (women's discus) and Tessa Sanderson (women's javelin). The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1978 European Athletics Championships. Two athletes at the UK event won individual"
"Laura Deas Laura Deas ( ; born 19 August 1988) is a British sports woman, best known as a skeleton racer on the World Cup circuit, representing the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. She won bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Born in Wrexham, North Wales, she graduated at Howell's school, Denbigh. Deas played hockey, representing North Wales in competition, and participated in equestrian sports, from Pony Club tetrathlon and latterly eventing (internationally from 2006 to 2008), in which she was team captain for Wales. Deas was brought into skeleton in 2009 through UK Sport's ""Girls4Gold"""
"Tessa Wallace Tessa Clare Wallace (born 9 September 1993) represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, her debut into major international meets. Wallace's only Commonwealth Games race, the 200-metre breaststroke, was held on Wednesday 6 October. After a solid heat she qualified 6th for the final, where she came second to ex-world record-holder and fellow Australian, Leisel Jones. Not far behind Tessa, Sarah Katsoulis finished 3rd, completing an Australia sweep of gold, silver and bronze medals. On 20 March 2012, Wallace qualified for her first Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she advanced to"
"Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's The women's skeleton event at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 16 and 17 February at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. The defending champion, Lizzy Yarnold had struggled in the season leading to the Games, but set a new track record in the first run. Affected by the middle ear disorder which had impeded her season, she had a mediocre second run, but a strong slide brought her back to second, and only two hundredths of a second off gold after the third run. In the fourth run,"
"of the games in the 800m Freestyle (1 Bronze in 400m Freestyle by Teresa Nicol), Basketball (1 silver - 30-34 Israel), Ten Pin Bowling (1 Gold by Cheryl Brieseman in Women's Singles), (3 Silvers 2 in Doubles and 1 in Teams) Equestrian (1 Gold by Devon Tretheway in Equitation) (2 Silvers in Working Trials-Devon Tretheway and Equitation Thomas Sutton)(1 Bronze by Thomas Sutton in Working Trails), Golf (1 Gold by Nigel Old) and Powerlifting (2 Golds by Clayton Marr in Bench Press and Leigh Donald in Combined Powerlifting event)(2 Silvers in Deadlift Dominic Crowe and Leigh Donald) (6 Bronzes Clayton"
"in Sydney and the gold medal at the World Cup triathlon in Ishigaki. The following list is based upon the official ITU rankings and the ITU ""Athletes's Profile Page."" Unless indicated otherwise, the following events are triathlons (Olympic Distance) and refer to the ""Elite"" category. BG = the sponsor ""British Gas"" · DNF = ""did not finish"" · DNS = ""did not start"" Bárbara Riveros Bárbara Catalina Riveros Díaz (born 3 August 1987 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean professional triathlete, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympian, and currently (August 2011) she is the number two in the ""Dextro Energy"
"the 110 metres hurdles. Tinus Osendarp of the Netherlands won a sprint double, breaking two championship records. World record holder Sydney Wooderson took victory in the 1500 metres while Olympic gold medallists Matti Järvinen (javelin), Karl Hein (hammer) and Harold Whitlock (50 km walk) won their specialities. Finnish runners Taisto Mäki, Ilmari Salminen and Väinö Muinonen won all three of the long distance running events at the championships, upholding the country's reputation as the Flying Finns. Contemporaneous reports on the men's event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Stanisława Walasiewicz of Poland excelled in the women's events at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion"
"the semifinals of the women's 200-metre breaststroke, and finished with the 15th-best time overall. Tessa Wallace Tessa Clare Wallace (born 9 September 1993) represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, her debut into major international meets. Wallace's only Commonwealth Games race, the 200-metre breaststroke, was held on Wednesday 6 October. After a solid heat she qualified 6th for the final, where she came second to ex-world record-holder and fellow Australian, Leisel Jones. Not far behind Tessa, Sarah Katsoulis finished 3rd, completing an Australia sweep of gold, silver and bronze medals. On 20 March 2012, Wallace qualified for"
"Essa Barshim of Qatar took second and Derek Drouin set a Canadian national record while winning bronze. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became the first woman in World Championships history to sweep the sprint events when anchored Jamaica to gold in the 4×100 metre relay. Jamaica's time of 41.29 set a Championships record. Earlier in the meet, Fraser-Pryce won the 100 metres and the 200 metres. In the final of the 200 metres, Allyson Felix tore her right hamstring. A photo-finish gave Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast the silver over Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare after both finished in the same time. Great Britain's"
"2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay The women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 12 August. USA with Aaliyah Brown and the home British team with Asha Philip were out fast, gaining slightly on Tatjana Pinto for Germany to their outside, while outside of Germany, Jura Levy had Jamaica pulling away. USA and Jamaica had smooth handoffs to Allyson Felix and Natasha Morrison respectively, but the British team had a hesitation on the handoff to Desirèe Henry, losing a slight"
"her first World Series medal. On the Olympic front, Harrison and McIlroy managed to qualify for France and New Zealand. The under-23 races are held over the same course as the elite races. Great Britain head the men's field with the Silver medalist from the Tiszaujavorous World Cup race Aaron Harris and the 2010 Junior world silver medalist Tom Bishop and Matthew Sharp, with defending champion Jonathon Brownlee racing in the elite race. Also in the race were 2010 Aquathlon World Champion Richard Varga, Andrey Bryukhankov, whose brother was fourth coming into the event in the elite standings, amongst others"
"the World Championship Series. The following list is based upon the official ITU rankings and the ITU ""Athletes's Profile Page"". Unless indicated otherwise, the following events are triathlons (Olympic Distance) and refer to the Elite category. DNF = ""did not finish"" · DNS = ""did not start"" · BG = the sponsor ""British Gas"" Felicity Sheedy-Ryan Felicity Sheedy-Ryan (born 12 February 1985 in Perth) is an Australian professional triathlete, Oceania Champion of the year 2008, gold medalist at the 2012 and 2017 Duathlon World Championships, and a member of the Australian World Championship Series Team 2011. Sheedy-Ryan started her national"
"best results were 47.25 metres in the discus throw, achieved in 2005; and 52.09 metres in the javelin throw, achieved in May 2007 in Bedford. She competed in bobsleigh and was a medallist for Great Britain at the FIBT World Championships 2008. She left the sport that same year and took part in UK Sport's Girls4Gold programme, which identified her talent for cycling. She established herself as a national level cyclist at the 2012 British National Team Sprint Championships, where she shared in the silver medal with teammate Eleanor Richardson. She began acting as a tandem pilot for visually-impaired Paralympian"
"Simidele Adeagbo Simidele Adeife Omonla Adeagbo (born July 29, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Nigerian skeleton racer who competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She is Nigeria and Africa’s first female skeleton athlete, as well as the first black female athlete in the sport of skeleton. Before competing in skeleton, Adeagbo competed in triple jump, last competing in 2008. Adeagbo was born in Toronto, in Ontario, Canada, to Nigerian parents; but she moved back to Nigeria when she was an infant, and stayed there through age 6. Adeagbo served as a Nike body double for Serena Williams. Adeagbo"
"the course of the 6 rounds. The women's pole vault also provided a spectacle as Sandi Morris jumped a height of 4.83 to equal the Diamond League record and set an outdoor world lead. Two Americans, Ameer Webb and LaShawn Merritt, won the men's sprint events, with Webb running 19.85 to go 23rd on the all-time list. All the women's track events had new world leads set, with the most impressive being Almaz Ayana's 3000 metres victory, where she ran less than a second outside her personal best to run the 19th fastest race of all time. In the men's"
"of 7 different events. These events are 80 metres, Long Jump, High Jump, Baseball throw, shot put, 80 metres hurdles (for the girls), 80 metres hurdles and 1000 metres (for the girls) and 1200 metres (for the boys). Pentathlon: Jemahl Lucas, Axel Tromp, Margenine Kock and Siljee Feliciana Heptathlon: Xavier Boekhoudt, Eugene Bouwer, Jelissa Nedd and Jullianne Dorothal Pentathlon: Shadwin Simon, Alec Lacle, Sarahi Sierra and Yasmine Arrindell Heptathlon: Reginald Koc, Jonathan Croes, Lixandra Geerman and Chayenne David Pentathlon: Ken-Jay Obiana, Jean-Andre Denisa, Tiffany Hurtado and Nadien Martina Heptathlon: Genessis Dolorita, Wendymar Martina, Ebony Hodgsons and Naeemah Isidora Pentathlon: None"
"by finishing third in the 800-meter freestyle. She also competed in the 400-meter individual medley and placed eighth in the final. At the 2012 Olympics in London, Anderson earned a silver medal by placing second in the 10-kilometer marathon event, finishing four tenths (0.40) of a second behind the winner, Éva Risztov of Hungary, over the 6.2 miles of the event. Her sister Alyssa earned a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics as a member of the winning U.S. team in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. At the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona in 2013, Anderson won the gold medal"
"the field, she finished last with a total of 3676 points as she performed to a poor international standard in the other events (including 20.76 seconds for the 100 metres hurdles and 6.83 m for the shot put). A switch to the steeplechase in 2011 brought her to an international standard for the first time. She reduced her best time to 9:30.73 minutes over the course of the season, finished fifth at the London Grand Prix and placed fourth at the 2011 All-Africa Games. She did not reach the Olympics the following year, ending up sixth at the Kenyan Trials,"
"Bowls Championship losing to Ellen Falkner and Katherine Rednall respectively. Field won her first outdoor titles, winning the ladies two-wood singles and junior pairs events at the National Championships in 2014. She first competed for the England senior ladies team at outdoor level in 2015, when she was named in the squad for BWIBC International Series. Also at outdoor level in 2015, Field was selected to represent England at the European Team Championships and Atlantic Rim Games. She won gold in the ladies pairs, mixed fours and team events at the European Team Championships. In 2018 she finished runner-up to"
"events are 80 metres, Long Jump, High Jump, shot put and 1000 metres (for the girls) and 1200 metres (for the boys). Pentathlon: Lixandra Geerman, Naomi Cecilia, Reginald Koc and Christian Kingsale Heptathlon: Jelissa Nedd, Annelaine Jacobs, Ludeson Jean Baptiste & Jeremy Fontain. Pentathlon: Rhona Croes, Siljee Feliciana, Jenyle Julien and Jonathan Croes Heptathlon: Eugene Bouwer, Xavier Boekhoudt, Iraida Dorothal and Chayenne David Pentathlon: Naeemah Isidora, Charlotte Rave, Yersel Martie and Ayrthon Sambo. Heptathlon: Roshaldienne Brion, Sharyanne Gijsbertha, Dudley Boelddak and Giandro Martis. Pentathlon: Shayenne Johnson, Jeanne Peterson, Abba Coombs and Leshawn Brown. Heptathlon: Edwin Ruan, Randy Richardson, Joy Harris"
"wide and passed the field as Rodríguez started to falter. England followed Simpson in full sprint across the finish line. Nataliya Tobias was disqualified for doping in 2012 after further analysis of a sample of hers from the Daegu Championships. Olesya Syreva, Anzhela Shevchenko and Natallia Kareiva have later had their results disqualified after they were found to be doping based on abnormalities in their biological passport profiles. Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals. Qualification: First 5 in each heat"
"Lorraine Hanson (sprinter) Lorraine Hanson (born 22 April 1965) is a British former sprinter who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She ran her lifetime best of 50.93 secs at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, which at the time moved her to fourth on the British all-time list, and as of 2018 ranks her 13th. At the same championship, she was a member of the British 4 x 400 metres relay quartet (along with Phylis Smith, Sally Gunnell and Linda Keough) that finished fourth in the British record time of 3:22.01; a time that would stand as the British"
"London. Sanderson organised and was associated with the Redbridge 10k on 24 July 2011, which was the first ever run in the Borough of Redbridge. In 1984, Sanderson made an appearance on ""Bullseye"". Starting in the late 80s she starred in a number of fitness videos alongside Derrick Evans. In the 1990s she worked as a sports reporter for Sky News, and appeared alongside Cilla Black as a co-host on ITV's ""Surprise Surprise"". In 2005, she took part in the one-off special, ""Strictly African Dancing"", as part of the ""Africa Lives"" season on the BBC. She was voted into third"
"field at a given time. Britain qualified a team in this sport through the 7th-place finish of the England team at the CPISRA World Championships in Brazil.; their first appearance since the 1992 Barcelona Games Legend: Four British judokas qualified for the Games, all events were for visually impaired athletes. A single medal was won, by Sam Ingram, in the men's 90 kg category. Four British powerlifters qualified to compete at the Games. Jason Irving and Natalie Blake had the best results, each finishing sixth, Blake was competing in the −48 kg division, having dropped down two weight categories since"
"(one of his worst placings of recent years). Among the women, Elaine Thompson (100 m), Ekaterini Stefanidi (pole vault), Valerie Adams (shot put) and Sunette Viljoen (javelin) had their second wins of the series to top the rankings. Six world leads and five meet records resulted from the Birmingham leg. In the women's pole vault Yarisley Silva of Cuba set a Diamond League record of . She and Mutaz Essa Barshim (2.37 m in the men's high jump) were the only world leads from the field events. On the men's track Conseslus Kipruto had his fourth straight world lead in"
"both the 4 × 50 and the 4 × 100 metre medley relays with times of 1:49.65 and 4:02.00 respectively. James Sanderson (swimmer) James Peter Sanderson (born 29 June 1993) is a Gibraltarian swimmer. Sanderson first competed for Gibraltar at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi where he finished 23rd in the 400 metre freestyle in 4:22.41, 27th in the 100 metre butterfly in 1:01.42 and 29th in the 200 metre freestyle in 2:02.18. At the 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Dubai, Sanderson finished in 50th in the 200 metre individual medley in 2:15.03, 63rd in the"
"the process. Tim Sullivan topped the track and field medal tally with five gold medals. Sullivan won three gold medals in the T38 200m, 100m, and 400m events, and won two gold medals in relay events alongside Darren Thrupp, Adrian Grogan and Kieran Ault-Connell (T38 4X400m and 4X100m races). The top performing female track and field athlete was Lisa Llorens, who won three gold medals from the F20 high jump, long jump and T20 200m. Lorens also won a silver medal in the T20 100m. Other track medallists included Neil Fuller won two golds in the T44 200m, and 400m"
"Kendall Wesenberg Kendall Lorraine Wesenberg (born 23 August 1990 in Castro Valley, California) is an American skeleton racer who competes on the Skeleton World Cup circuit. Wesenberg attended the University of Colorado, where she studied business administration, and lives in Modesto, California. She began racing skeleton in 2014. Wesenberg was named, along with Katie Uhlaender, to represent the U.S. in women's skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Wesenberg started competing internationally in 2014–15 on the Europe Cup circuit, winning her very first race, at Lillehammer. She went on, with three fourth-place finishes and two seconds, to become the"
"metres, but he was later disqualified for having run inside the curb of the running track for some 10 to 15 metres. His teammate Dejen Gebremeskel was elevated to the bronze medal as a result. Cuba's Dayron Robles finished first in the race of the Men's 110 metres hurdles, but was disqualified for interfering with Liu Xiang twice before and over the last barrier. Jason Richardson was awarded the Gold, Liu the Silver, and Andy Turner promoted to the Bronze medal position. During the championships, Russia was the most successful country in the women's events, winning seven gold medals, followed"
"of 7.95m in the T44 men's long jump. In the T38 100m, 16-year-old British sprinter Sophie Hahn gained revenge over her rival Verônica Hipólito, who had beaten her in the 200m, by posting a record time of 13.10s. Two world records were also set in the women's throwing events, in the club throw Maroua Ibrahmi recorded a distance of 24.15 on her way to a points victory, while Assunta Legnente out threw her nearest rival by a massive five metres to win the T11 shot put for Italy. Day 6 started with Michelle Stilwell of Canada collecting her country's third"
"in the Winter Universiade in Trentino, Italy. She also achieved the 8th position on 1000 meters. The main events of the year were the two qualification World Cups for the Olympic Games. She was able to win a quota for her country in 1500 meters. She also helped the women relay team to qualify for Sochi according to the results of the World Cups held in Torino, Italy and in Kolomna, Russia. Her best result so far is the two bronze medals gained at the European Championships (Dresden, 2014): individual in 1500 m. and in team relay race on 3000"
"category at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships in Russia beating Gwladys Epangue in the final. She became only the second Briton to win a world title after Sarah Stevenson in 2001 and 2011, and the third to win a global title after Stevenson and Jade Jones' Olympic success in 2012. In June 2017, Walkden successfully defended her world title in Muju, South Korea during the 2017 Muju WTF World Taekwondo Championship. She beat American Jackie Galloway 14-4 in the heavyweight division. She joins Jade Jones as the only British practitioners to defend a global title, and becoming the only Briton"
"400 m of 50.40 at the 2016 Memorial Van Damme track and field meet in Brussels. Semenya won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2017 World Championships held in London. She also won the gold medal in the women's 800m event. In April 2018, the IAAF announced new rules that required hyperandrogenous athletes to take medication to lower their testosterone levels, effective beginning in November 2018. Due to the narrow scope of the changes, which only apply to athletes competing in the 400m, 800m, and 1500m, many people thought the rule change was designed specifically to target"