 Anna Purchase at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) |
| Born | 15 September 1999 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Hammer throw |
| Club | Notts AC |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | 73.02m (2023) |
Anna Purchase (born 15 September 1999) is an English international athlete based in the United States. [1] She has represented England at the Commonwealth Games. [1] [2]
Purchase was educated at the University of Nebraska and then the University of California, where she trained with future-World Champion, Camryn Rogers. [3] She started throwing at the age of 13 and became only the second British woman to break the 70 metre barrier. [4] She finished fourth at the 2021 European U23 Championships. [5] [6]
In 2022, she was selected for the women's hammer throw event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [1] [5] She was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest, [7] where she reached the final.
In 2024, she became the British hammer throw champion after winning the title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships. [8] Although Purchase met the qualification requirements for the Paris 2024 Olympics, she was not selected by British Athletics to compete and therefore was unable to take part. [9]
Purchase won a second British title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.
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