Sharon Cripps
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Australia
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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1998 Kuala Lumpur | 4 × 100 m relay |
Sharon Lee Cripps[1] (born 29 June 1977[1][2] in Brisbane,[1] Queensland) is a former track and field sprinter from Australia. She attended Ferny Grove State High School in Brisbane.[3]
Athletics career
[edit]Cripps represented Australia in two Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000) and two Commonwealth Games (1998 and 2002), as well as the 2003 World Championships.[2]
At the 1996 Olympics, as a 19-year-old, she made the final of the women's 4 x 100 metres relay, finishing seventh.[4] She was part of the Australian team that won the gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1998 Commonwealth Games along with Tania Van Heer, Lauren Hewitt and Nova Peris-Kneebone in a time of 43.39 seconds.[5] At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she made the final of both the 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay, finishing seventh and fourth respectively.[6] In 2003, she was Australia's national champion in the women's 100 and 200 metres.[7]
Personal bests
[edit]| Event | Time | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | 11.38 | Darwin, Australia | 22 June 2002 |
| 200 m | 22.84 | Adelaide, Australia | 6 February 2003 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sharon Cripps". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Sharon Cripps". athhistory.imgstg.com. Australian Athletics Historical Results. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ "Past students". Ferny Grove State High School. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ "Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Athletics: Results". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay: Final results". Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 27 January 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ "Australian Championships (Women)". GBR Athletics. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
External links
[edit]- Sharon Cripps at World Athletics
- Sharon Cripps at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Sharon Cripps at Olympics.com
- Sharon Cripps at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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