External links
- Stephanie Ratcliffe at Australian Athletics
- Stephanie Ratcliffe at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Stephanie Ratcliffe at Olympics.com
- Stephanie Ratcliffe at InterSportStats
- Stephanie Ratcliffe on Instagram
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 29 December 2000 |
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) [1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Hammer throw |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | Hammer: 73.63m (Austin, 2023) NR |
Stephanie Ratcliffe (born 29 December 2000) is an Australian hammer thrower. She won the 2023 and 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships. [2]
From Melbourne, she started athletics when she was five years-old. She attended Doncaster Secondary College. In 2019 she won the Australian U20 hammer throw title. Later that year, she began a scholarship at Harvard University. However, she returned to Australia at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and studied remotely for 18 months. [3] [4]
She represented Australia in senior competition at the Oceania Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022. [5]
She set an Australian national record in the hammer throw in May 2023 at the East Regional Conference Final with a collegiate-leading mark of 73.11 metres, breaking the Australian record of Bronwyn Eagles set in 2003 by two metres. [6] [7] She won the 2023 NCAA Division 1 Outdoor title in Austin, Texas in June 2023 with a new national record of 73.63 metres. [8] In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [9]
After transferring to the University of Georgia, she was runner-up at the SEC Championships in May 2024. [10] She competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [11] [12]
She threw 71.37 metres to win the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2025, competing for the University of Georgia. [13] [14]
In September 2025, she competed in the hammer throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [15] [16]
