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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 December 2002 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Shot put | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Shot put: 17.78m (Loughborough, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Serena Vincent (date 5 December 2002) is a British shot putter. An English shot put champion, she has won multiple medals indoors and outdoors at the British Athletics Championships.
From Bursledon, she attended The Gregg School in Southampton. [1] At the age of fifteen years-old, she was selected to represent England at the Commonwealth Youth Games. [2] The youngest competitor in the field, she placed ninth overall in the shot put final. [3]
A member of City of Portsmouth AC, Vincent set British shot put records at U17 and U18 level. She won the World Schools Cup in Croatia in 2019. [4] [5]
In September 2020, she became the number one ranked U20 shot putter in the world. [6] That month, she won her first medal at the senior 2020 British Athletics Championships, throwing 15.60m to secure third place. [7]
In July 2021, she won the senior England Athletics Championship shot put title. [8] In 2022, she placed fifth at the 2022 British Athletics Championships. [9]
She managed 16.15m to finish second in the women’s shot put behind world champion Chase Ealey at the Reykjavik International Games in February 2023. [10] In March 2023, she won the U23 women’s shot put at the 2023 European Throwing Cup with a personal best of 16.90 metres. [11] She was a silver medalist in the shot put at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo in July 2023, improving her personal best to 16.93 metres. [12]
In February 2024, she was runner-up at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham with a distance of 16.69 metres. [13] [14] She set a new personal best at the Loughborough International of 17.78 metres in May 2024. [15] She was a silver medalist at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in the shot put, with 17.32 metres. [16]
She attends Loughborough University. [17]
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