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She ran a time of 13.33 seconds to qualify for the final of the 100m hurdles at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester on 29 June 2024. She placed fourth in the final. [9] In July 2024, she won silver in the heptathlon with a personal best of 5807 points at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Slovakia. [10]
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).
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She was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the Associated Press. ... While gymnastics has become a more popular sport over time, Nadia Comaneci is credited ...
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.
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.
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.
Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, OBE [5] (born 31 October 1988) is a British former skeleton racer who joined the Great Britain national squad in 2010. With consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, she is the most successful British Winter Olympian and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time from any nation. [6]