Margaret Simpson

Margaret Simpson
Full name	Margaret Esi Simpson
nation	Ghana
birthday	31st December 1981 (age 38)
place of birth	Krapa , Ghana
size	163 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	Heptathlon
Best performance	6423 points
status	resigned
End of career	7th November 2018
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 3 × 0 × 0 × African Championships 4 × 0 × 0 × U20 African Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Helsinki 2005 6375 points  Commonwealth Games bronze Manchester 2002 5906 points  Africa Games gold Abuja 2003 6152 points gold Algiers 2007 6278 points gold Maputo 2011 6172 points  African Championships gold Radès 2002 6105 points gold Brazzaville 2004 6154 points gold Nairobi 2010 6031 points gold Porto-Novo 2012 54.62 m Junior African Championships gold Tunis 1999 5366 points silver Tunis 1999 4 × 100 m
last change: July 7th, 2020

Margaret Simpson Esi (* 31 December 1981 in Krapa , Ashanti Region ) is a former Ghanaian athlete , referring to the heptathlon but specializes in the javelin celebrated Was.

Athletic career

Margaret Simpson gained first international experience in 1997 when she took fourth place in the javelin throw at the Junior African Championships in Ibadan with a distance of 44.36 m and also reached fourth place in the long jump with 5.69 m. In 1999 she won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the Junior African Championships in Tunis with 5366 points and secured the silver medal in the Ghanaian 4 x 100 meter relay in 47.13 s. She then took part in the Africa Games in Johannesburg for the first time , where she finished fourth with 5089 points. The following year she took part in the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Chile , but could not finish her competition there. In 2001 she took part for the first time in the World Championships in Edmonton , Canada , where she reached 13th place with 5748 points. In 2002 she won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester with 5906 points behind the Australians Jane Jamieson and Kylie Wheeler and then won with 6105 points the African Championships in Radès .

In 2003 she was fifth at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis with 6120 points and qualified again for the World Championships near Paris , but could not finish her competition there. She then won the African Games in Abuja with a new player record of 6152 points. In the following year she defended her title at the African Championships in Brazzaville with 6154 points and was previously fifth at the Hypo meeting with 6306 points. She qualified for the Olympic Games in Athens , where she finished ninth with 6253 points . In 2005 she improved her own African record to 6423 points at the Hypomeeting and thus reached fourth place and qualified again for the World Championships in Helsinki , where she won the bronze medal with 6375 points behind the Swede Carolina Klüft and Eunice Barber from France. Simpson was the first Ghanaian athlete to win a medal at World Athletics Championships.

In 2006 she did not play any competitions, but in 2007 she returned to her old strength with a win at the Africa Games in Algiers with a new player record of 6278 points. She also took part in the World Championships in Osaka , but was able to finish her competition again. In 2008 she did not contest any competitions and in 2009 she missed participation in the World Championships in Berlin. In 2010 she won the African Championships in Nairobi with 6031 points and then started at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi , where she had to end her competition early. The following year she was at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea with 6183 points 12th and then won for the third time in a row at the Africa Games in Maputo with 6172 points. In 2012 she played her last African Championships in Porto-Novo , where she broke off the heptathlon prematurely, but won in her strongest individual discipline, the javelin with a width of 54.62 m. She also qualified for the Olympic Games in London, but did not start there for a short time and thus temporarily ended her career at the age of 30. In 2017 and 2018 she started in individual competitions in the javelin throw, but decided on November 7, 2018 to end her career entirely.

Others

Simpson is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

Personal best

• High jump: 1.85 m, May 28, 2005 in Götzis (former national record)
• Javelin throw: 56.36 m, 7 August 2005 in Helsinki ( Ghanaian record )
• Heptathlon: 6423 points, May 29, 2005 in Götzis ( Africa record )

Web links

• Margaret Simpson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Margaret Simpson in the database of Olympedia.org (English)