Sharon Cripps

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Sharon Cripps
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 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

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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

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Event Time Place Date
100 m 11.38 Darwin, Australia 22 June 2002
200 m 22.84 Adelaide, Australia 6 February 2003

References

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