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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 2004 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 52.15 (Chelmsford, 2023) 400m hurdles: 57.02 (Jerusalem, 2023) | |||||||||||||||||
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Emily Newnham (born 19 May 2004) is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for Great Britain as a sprinter and a hurdler. [1]
She was English Schools Champion over 400 metres hurdles in 2020, Running a time of 59.22 seconds in Manchester. [2]
She won the British Universities and College (BUCS) indoors 400 metres title in February 2023. [3]
She won the British U20 400m hurdles title in Chelmsford in June 2023 with a time of 58.54 seconds. [4] She was a bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles at the 2023 British Athletics Championships in Manchester in 2023, running a 57.13 personal best. [5] She finished fourth in the 400m hurdles at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem. [6]
She made her Diamond League debut at the 2023 Weltklasse Zürich on 31 August 2023. [7]
In February 2024, she won the British Universities and College (BUCS) indoors 400m in a championship record time of to 53.06. [8]
In April 2024, she was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. [9] She ran in the final of the event as the British 4x400m team finished fourth overall. [10] She was selected to run the 4x400 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. [11]
In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [12]
She ran an indoors personal best of 52.16 seconds to finish third in the 400 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025. [13] She was selected for the British 4x400m relay team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, winning a bronze medal in the mixed 4x400m relay. [14] [15] She won a silver medal in the women’s 4x400 metres relay alongside Lina Nielsen, Amber Anning and Hannah Kelly, with the quartet setting a new national record of three minutes, 24.89 seconds. [16]
She is from Kent. [17] She is a student at Loughborough University. [18]
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