Ashleigh Nelson (sprinter)
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Nationality | British English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1991-02-20) 20 February 1991 (age 33) Stoke-on-Trent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Women's Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprinting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ashleigh Nelson (born 20 February 1991) is an English sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres.[1]
Ashleigh was the first Brit to win a medal in 40 years taking away a bronze medal in the 100 metres and a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2014 European Championships. In the 4 × 100 metres relay, she also won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. Her personal bests are 11.19 secs (2014) in the 100 m and 22.85 secs (2019) in the 200 m.[2]
Representing England, she was a gold medalist in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as part of the 4 x 100 metres relay squad.
Ashleigh is an advocate for mental health awareness and is an ambassador for the charity Sane.
Personal
Nelson was born in Stoke-on-Trent and is a cousin of footballer Curtis Nelson.[3] Her older brother Alexander was also a sprinter at international level as they both were selected to represent Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[4]
References
- ^ "Ashlee Nelson hopes to run gauntlet of first Olympic Games in Beijing – Olympics". Telegraph. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
- ^ "Ashlee Nelson lands World Junior silver". More than the games. 14 July 2008. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
- ^ "Meet the Plymouth athletes competing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland". Plymouth Herald. 20 July 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ "NikeWomen Young Guns – Ashlee Nelson". Anglomania-mag.com. 10 March 2010. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
External links
- Ashleigh Nelson at World Athletics
- Ashleigh Nelson at British Athletics
- Ashleigh Nelson at Team GB
- Ashleigh Nelson at Olympedia
- Ashleigh Nelson at Team England
- Ashleigh Nelson at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Ashleigh Nelson on Twitter
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- 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel)
- 1946: Netherlands (v.d. Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen)
- 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds)
- 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova)
- 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovska)
- 1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska)
- 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszyńska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska)
- 1969: GDR (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt)
- 1971: FRG (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler)
- 1974: GDR (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert)
- 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storozhkova)
- 1982: GDR (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr)
- 1986: GDR (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr)
- 1990: GDR (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther)
- 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen)
- 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron)
- 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé)
- 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva)
- 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
- 2012: Germany (Günther, Cibis, Pinto, Sailer)
- 2014: Great Britain (Philip, Nelson, J. Williams, Henry)
- 2016: Netherlands (Samuel, Schippers, Van Schagen, Sedney)
- 2018: Great Britain (Philip, Lansiquot, B. Williams, Asher-Smith)
- 2022: Germany (Mayer, Haase, Lückenkemper, Burghardt)
- 2024: Great Britain (Asher-Smith, Henry, Hunt, Neita)
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