Niamh Emerson

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Niamh Emerson athletics
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom of EnglandEnglandEngland 
birthday 22nd April 1999 (age 21)
place of birth Shirland , UK
size 180 cm
Weight 67 kg
Career
discipline Heptathlon
Best performance 6253 points
society Amber Valley
Trainer David Feeney
status active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European Indoor Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
U20 world championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
U18 European Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Commonwealth Games Federation logo Commonwealth Games
bronze Gold Coast 2018 6043 points
EAA logo European Indoor Championships
silver Glasgow 2019 4731 points
IAAF logo U20 world championships
gold Tampere 2018 6253 points
EAA logo U18 European Championships
bronze Tbilisi 2016 5919 points
last change: March 3, 2019

Niamh Emerson (born April 22, 1999 in Shirland , England ) is a British athlete who specializes in heptathlon .

Athletic career

Niamh Emersom only gained international experience at the U18 World Championships 2015 in Cali , where she finished 13th with 5384 points. She then won the gold medal in the high jump at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia with 1.80 m and the bronze medal in the 400-meter hurdles in 61.99 s. The following year she won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the U18 European Championships in Tbilisi with 5919 points, and in 2017 she came fourth at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto with 6013 points. In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time , where she won the bronze medal with 6043 points behind her compatriot Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Nina Schultz from Canada. In July, she won the U20 World Championships in Tampere with 6253 points , narrowly beating Austrian Sarah Lagger . In 2019, Emerson surprisingly won the silver medal behind Johnson-Thompson at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 4731 points.

Personal best

  • High jump: 1.89 m, Loughborough May 22, 2016
    • High jump (hall): 1.87 m, February 20, 2016 in Salamanca
  • Heptathlon: 6253 points: July 13, 2018 in Tampere
    • Pentathlon (hall): 4731 points: March 1st, 2018 in Glasgow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cathal Dennehy: Johnson-Thompson and Muir lead gold rush for hosts on first day of European Indoor Championships. IAAF, March 1, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2019 .