Career
Anning has competed for Brighton & Hove Athletic Club since she was nine years old. [4] From the age of 16, until his unexpected death in 2021, she was coached by Lloyd Cowan. [1] [2] Anning broke the British under-15 300 metres record running 38.73 seconds and was the first, and to date, the only British under-15 to run sub 39 seconds. The previous record holder was Dina Asher-Smith. [2]
At the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, Anning finished third in the 400 metres event and was part of the England team that finished second in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay. She missed the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships due to injury. [5]
Aged 17, she won a bronze medal over 200m at the British Indoor Championships. A year later, at 18, she came second over 400m at the British Indoor Championships, running 53s dead to break the nearly 50-year-old British U20 Indoor record of Marilyn Neufville. With this she auto-qualified for the individual 400m and the British relay squad, which won the silver medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships. [2] In the same year, Anning also finished second in the 400 metres event at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships, and anchored the British team to victory in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay competition at the championships. [2]
In 2020, she started competing in college athletics for LSU Tigers, [6] where she was coached by Dennis Shaver. [2] In August 2022, she transferred to Arkansas Razorbacks. [6]
At the 2023 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, she was part of the Arkansas relay team that set the fastest women's indoor 4 × 400 metres relay time in history of 3:21.75. Anning's time on the first leg was the fifth fastest ever. [6] Anning was a member of the British team that finished third in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. It was her first senior World Championships, and she ran the second leg of the race splitting 49.70 seconds in the heat and 49.82 seconds in the final. [4]
In January 2024, Anning broke Katharine Merry's 25-year-old 200m British Indoor record, clocking 22.60 at Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. [7]
In March 2024, she won the 400m at the 2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston in 50.79 seconds, leading her teammates Nickisha Pryce and Rosey Effiong to an historic podium as Arkansas became the first women's program to have a 1–2–3 finish in the 400 at the NCAA Indoor meet. [8] The Arkansas Razorbacks, led for the first time by Head Coach, Chris 'Captain' Johnson, also won the women's team title for the second year in a row. [9] In May 2024, Anning ran 49.51 seconds over 400m at the SEC Track and Field Championships, to move to third place on the British All-Time list, behind Christine Ohuruogu and Kathy Smallwood. [10] At the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships Anning won the bronze medal over 400m, running 49.59 seconds, in an historic race in which the Razorbacks achieved a 'super sweep' of the top four places. [11] In the women's 4 x 400 metres relay, Anning, Effiong, Pryce and Kaylyn Brown set a collegiate record time of 3:17.96 to win the event for Arkansas. [12] Anning became a fully professional athlete in 2024 after graduating from Arkansas. [3]
Later in 2024, Anning won the 400 metres event at the 2024 British Athletics Championships, and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics as a result. [13] She was part of the mixed 4x400 team which won a bronze medal in a new national record of 3:08.01. [14] [15] In the individual event, she reached the final and finished fifth in 49.23 seconds, a national record and only three hundredths of a second from bronze.
At the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Anning was disqualified in the 400m heats due to lane infringements. [16] Later in the championships she was part of the British 4x400 metres relay team which won a silver medal. [17] [18] Later that month at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Anning became the first British woman to win the 400 metres indoor title. [19]
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