Stephanie Ratcliffe

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Stephanie Ratcliffe
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2000-12-29) 29 December 2000 (age 23)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal bestsHammer: 73.63m (Austin, 2023) NR

Stephanie Ratcliffe (born 29 December 2000) is an Australian hammer thrower. [1]

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Early life

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. [2] [3]

Career

She represented Australia in senior competition at the Oceania Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022. [4]

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. [5] [6] She won the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor title in Austin, Texas in June 2023 with a new national record of 73.63 metres. [7] In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [8]

After transferring to the University of Georgia, she was runner-up at the SEC Championships in May 2024. [9] In July 2024, she was selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [10]

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