| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 8 November 2004 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Pole Vault |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Pole vault: 4.45 m (Madrid, 2025) |
Gemma Tutton (born 8 November 2004) is a British pole vaulter. [1]
From Sussex, she is a member of Lewes Athletics Club and is coached by Richard Pilling. She also trains with the Lewes Pole Vault Group who practise in a barn at the Iford Estate Farm in Lewes, East Sussex. As a youngster she held national records at U13 Ns U15 level, and she won the English schools intermediate field pole vault title in July 2021. [2] [3] [4] [5]
She reached the final of the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, placing tenth overall with a personal best clearance of 4.10 metres. [6] [7]
In May 2024, competing for Duke University she set a new personal best clearance of 4.37 metres at the AAC Championships. [8] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [9]
She cleared a new personal best height of 4.42 metres in April 2025. [10] She was selected for the Great Britain team to compete at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025, where she cleared a personal best height of 4.45 metres to place fifth overall in the first division. [11] [12] [13] She was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen and was named in the British team for the 2025 Summer World University Games in Germany. [14]
Alongside her sister Maya, she founded the Our Streets Now social campaign in 2019 aimed to educate about sexual harassment and to make street harassment a criminal offence in the United Kingdom. [15] [16] [17]