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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British athletes. It includes athletes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female athletics competitors from the United Kingdom .
She also had some international success as part of the Great Britain women's 4 x 400 metres relay squad. Meadows was the 2011 Diamond League 800 m winner. In 2009, she was the third-fastest British woman over the distance, and currently is the eighth-fastest as of 2022. She was multiple British national champion (mostly indoors).
She is also three-times a winner of the British Athletics Writers' Association Female Athlete of the Year Award (1980–82). Cook held the UK National records for 100m, 200m and 400m for over 25 years. Her 100m best of 11.10secs, stood as the UK record from 1981 to 2008. Her 200m best of 22.10 secs, stood as the UK record from 1984 to 2015.
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson, MBE (born 9 January 1993) [1] is an English athlete.A multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete.In heptathlon she is a double world champion, double Commonwealth Games champion and an Olympic and European silver medallist.
She was the first European in both races with the top six places in the 5000m all going to Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes. Her time of 30:53.20 in the 10000m is not only the second fastest ever by a British athlete but also the second fastest time in history by an over 35-year-old behind Kenya's Edith Masai.
She was the first female British sprinter to win, over 100 m or 200 m, an individual medal in the world championships since Kathy Cook in 1983. [42] On 2 October, she became the World Champion in the 200 m, setting a personal best and new British record of 22.16 seconds.
Jenny Thompson is one of the most decorated female Olympic swimmers. ... Cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie is considered one of the best winter Olympic athletes in history with 12 medals ...
She is the only female British athlete to have won all four 'majors'; Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles, [3] and was the first female 400 metres hurdler in history to win the Olympic and World titles and break the world record. Her former world record time of 52.74 secs in 1993 is still the current British record.