| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Australia | ||
| Commonwealth Games | ||
 | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | 4 × 100 m relay |
Sharon Lee Cripps [1] (born 29 June 1977 [1] [2] in Brisbane, [1] Queensland) is a former track and field sprinter from Australia. She attended Ferny Grove State High School in Brisbane. [3]
Cripps represented Australia in two Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000) and two Commonwealth Games (1998 and 2002), as well as the 2003 World Championships. [2]
At the 1996 Olympics, as a 19-year-old, she made the final of the women's 4 x 100 metres relay, finishing seventh. [4] She was part of the Australian team that won the gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1998 Commonwealth Games along with Tania Van Heer, Lauren Hewitt and Nova Peris-Kneebone in a time of 43.39 seconds. [5] At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she made the final of both the 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay, finishing seventh and fourth respectively. [6] In 2003, she was Australia's national champion in the women's 100 and 200 metres. [7]
| Event | Time | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | 11.38 | Darwin, Australia | 22 June 2002 |
| 200 m | 22.84 | Adelaide, Australia | 6 February 2003 |
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Ferny Grove State High School is a public secondary school in the suburb of Ferny Grove, in Brisbane, Australia.
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