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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 February 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 60m: 7.24 (2025) 100m: 11.26 (2025) 200m: 22.81 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kristie Edwards (born 24 February 2000) is an Australian sprinter. [1]
She attended Newport Public School and from 2017, Pymble Ladies' College in New South Wales. [2] [3] On leaving school, she studied at the University of Technology Sydney. [4]
She started running for the Newport Nippers in New South Wales. [5] Edwards gained her first experience at international championships in 2018, when she finished seventh with the Australian 4x100m relay team at the 2018 World Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, setting a new Australian junior record. [6]
She won gold in the 4x100m relay at the 2019 Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville in 44.47 seconds, along with Nana Owusu-Afriyie, Riley Day, and Celeste Mucci. She competed for Australia at the 2019 IAAF World Relays and was named in the squad for the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha. [7]
In 2020, she moved from Sydney, to be based in Queensland. She is a member of Noosa athletics club. [3] [8]
She was part of the Australian squad selected to compete in the 4 x 100m sprint relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [9]
At the 2024 London Athletics Meet in July 2024, she was part of the Australian 4x100 metres team alongside Torrie Lewis, Ella Connolly and Bree Masters that set a new Australian and Oceania record of 42.48 seconds. [10] She participated in the relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, as they finished fifth in their heat in 42.75 seconds. [11] [12]
She finished runner-up to Jessica Milat in the 200 metres race at the 2025 Australian Athletics Championships on 13 April 2025, running a personal best time of 22.81 seconds. [13] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China in the Women's 4 × 100 metres relay in May 2025. [14]
