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| Nationality | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 June 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 100m: 11.43 (Manchester, 2023) 200m: 24.05 (Houston, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Annie Tagoe (born 4 June 1993) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. [1]
Tagoe was born in Ghana and brought up in Willesden in north-west London from the age of six. Her mother is an NHS Nurse. She played for QPR Girls football team as a youngster. She was excluded from school 32 times before being introduced to the charity Track Academy, set up using money from Comic Relief. She became the England Under-17 100 metres champion, she attended Royal Central School of Speech and Drama at 18 years-old, and graduated after three years. She has also worked as a model but has spoken about racism she experienced that caused her to contemplate trying to bleach her skin lighter. [2] [3] [4]
In 2010, Tagoe worked with MP Dawn Butler and musician Chipmunk on a project to help young people associate with politics. [5]
Tagoe represented Britain at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. [6] She won a bronze medal in the medley relay event. [7]
In 2011, she was selected for the Britain squad for the 2011 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, as part of the 4x100m relay squad with Jennie Batten, Mica Moore and Bianca Williams. [8]
Tagoe won a European Athletics U23 Championships silver medal for Britain in the 4x100m relay alongside team-mates Corinne Humphreys, Jodie Williams, and Rachel Johncock in Tampere, Finland in 2013. [9]
Tagoe suffered injuries that required surgery on both knees in 2014 and 2015 and prohibited her from running for a number of years. She also has arthritis in her ankle which can cause discomfort in cold conditions. [10]
Competing at the UK Athletics Championships in Manchester in July 2023, Tagoe was one of the fastest qualifiers for the final of the women’s 100m race, behind Dina Asher-Smith. [11] She was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023. [12]
In April 2024, she was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. [13]
Abiodun Adesola "Abi" Oyepitan is a British sprint athlete, who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She won the 100 m at the 2001 Summer Universiade and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games she took a bronze medal with the 4 × 100 m team. She became one of Britain's best female sprinters, becoming the first British female to reach an Olympic final in a sprint event since Kathy Cook. However, following her performance in the 2004 Athens Olympics, she suffered an injury, which all but brought her career to a halt.
She made a winning comeback in 2010, competing in the Diamond League and winning a silver medal for England at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in the 200 m and a gold medal when she anchored the 4 × 100 m relay team to a win.
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Emily Diamond is a British track and field athlete, who competes in the 200 metres and 400 metres. Diamond came to prominence in her breakout season of 2016 when, following her first win at the British Championships over the 400 metres distance, she collected a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2016 European Athletics Championships as part of the Great Britain team, followed by a bronze in the same discipline at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Sha'Carri Richardson is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 meters and 200 meters races. Richardson rose to fame in 2019 as a freshman at Louisiana State University, running 10.75 seconds to break the 100 m collegiate record at the NCAA Division I Championships. This winning time made her one of the ten fastest women in history at 19 years old.
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