Sharon Cripps
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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1998 Kuala Lumpur | 4 × 100 m relay |
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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 | edit source]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 | edit source]| Event | Time | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | 11.38 | Darwin, Australia | 22 June 2002 |
| 200 m | 22.84 | Adelaide, Australia | 6 February 2003 |
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Sharon Cripps at World AthleticsLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Sharon Cripps at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- Australian women sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic athletes for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games athletes for Australia
- Athletes from Brisbane
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
- Olympic women sprinters
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Australian Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
- Australian sprinter stubs