Brittany crew
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birthday | 6th March 1994 (age 26) | |||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Mississauga , Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||
size | 178 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 112 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
job | Student | |||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 19.28 m ![]() |
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Trainer | Richard Parkinson | |||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: September 1st, 2019 |
Brittany Crew (born March 6, 1994 in Mississauga ) is a Canadian shot putter who occasionally competes in the discus throw .
Athletic career
Brittany Crew gained first experience in international competitions at the Junior World Championships 2012 in Barcelona , where she was eliminated with 14.03 m in qualification. In 2014 she won bronze medals in the shot put and the discus at the U23 NACAC championships in Kamloops . In 2015 she also won bronze at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju , South Korea , where she hit the ball to 17.27 m. In 2016 she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated with 17.45 m in qualification . In May 2017, she improved her outdoor record to over 18.50 meters, improving the Canadian record held by Julie Labonté by a little more than 20 centimeters. So she qualified for the World Championships in London , where she finished sixth with 18.21 m in the final . Two weeks later she won the gold medal at the Student World Games in Taipei with 18.34 m. At the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in 2018 , she finished tenth with 17.61 m and then won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast behind the Jamaican Danniel Thomas-Dodd and Valerie Adams from New Zealand with 18.32 m .
In 2019 she took part again in the Summer Universiade in Naples , where she took seventh place with a width of 17.07 m. At the beginning of August, she improved her own national record to 19.07 m at the Pan American Games in Lima , winning the silver medal behind Jamaican Thomas-Todd.
From 2016 to 2019, Crew became the Canadian Shot Put Champion. She graduated from York University with a degree in Health Sciences .
Personal best
- Shot put: 19.28 m, September 1, 2019 in Berlin ( Canadian record )
- Shot put (hall): 18.20 m, February 10, 2018 in Montreal ( Canadian record )
- Discus throw: 51.68 m, July 6, 2018 in Ottawa
Web links
- Brittany Crew in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Brittany Crew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Crew, Brittany |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian shot putter |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1994 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mississauga |