Sally Pearson

Sally Pearson
Sally Pearson at the 2011 World Championships
nation	Australia
birthday	19th September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Sydney
size	166 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	7.30 s ( 60 m ) 7.73 s ( 60 m hurdles ) 11.14 s ( 100 m ) 23.02 s ( 200 m ) 12.28 s ( 100 m hurdles )
society	Gold Coast Victory
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 2008 Beijing 100 m hurdles gold 2012 London 100 m hurdles  World championships gold 2011 Daegu 100 m hurdles silver 2013 Moscow 100 m hurdles gold 2017 London 100 m hurdles  Indoor world championships gold 2012 Istanbul 60 m hurdles silver 2014 Sopot 60 m hurdles  Commonwealth Games bronze 2006 Melbourne 4 × 100 m gold 2010 Delhi 100 m hurdles gold 2014 Glasgow 100 m hurdles  Junior World Championships bronze 2004 Grosseto 100 m  Youth World Championships gold 2003 Sherbrooke 100 m hurdles
last change: August 12, 2017

Sally Pearson (born September 19, 1986 in Sydney as Sally McLellan ) is a former Australian athlete who specialized in the 100-meter hurdles . In 2008 she won the Olympic silver medal, in 2011 and 2017 she was world champion in her favorite discipline and in 2012 she won gold at the Olympics in London .

Career

Sally McLellan was a gymnast when she was young . It was only after her family moved from New South Wales to Queensland that she got into athletics. In 2003 she won the title over the 100 meter hurdles at the Junior World Championships in 13.42 seconds. As a result, she was nominated as the youngest ever female athlete for the Australian team at the 2003 World Championships in Paris . There she was used in the 4 x 100 meter relay . At the Australian Open in March 2005, McLellan was the first to win the 100 meters and the 100 meter hurdles. At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka , McLellan reached the semifinals over 100 meters and 100 meter hurdles, but missed the finals. With the 100-meter relay, Sally McLellan failed in the run-up. When IAAF Super Grand Prix in 2007 in Doha McLellan was third. In addition, she came fourth at the 2007 IAAF Golden League Meeting in Berlin and sixth in Brussels and Zurich . In 2008 she reached fourth, Oslo sixth and Berlin seventh place at the Golden League Meeting in Rome . Sally McLellan won the silver medal behind Dawn Harper in the Beijing 2008 Olympics in 12.64 s .

She has been married to Kieran Pearson since 2010, whose name she adopted. In the same year she won the 100-meter hurdles at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India . A year later, Pearson also won the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, on their parade route. It ran a time of 12.28 s and missed the world record over this distance by only 7 hundredths of a second. At the end of the season she was named World Athlete of the Year 2011 by the IAAF. In 2012 she won gold at the Olympic Games in London in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.35 s.

A year later, she won the silver medal at the World Championships in Moscow , after her season was only moderately successful due to two torn muscle fibers .

In the winter of 2014 she was in good shape to defend her indoor world championship title: At an open-air meeting in Perth she won in 12.59 seconds and on March 1st she won the first ISTAF indoor Berlin with a world annual best of 7.79 seconds . In 2017 she became world champion for the second time at the World Championships in London .

In early August 2019, Pearson announced her immediate retirement before athletics due to ongoing injuries.

Web links

Commons : Sally Pearson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sally Pearson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sally Pearson in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
• Sally Pearson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Junior World Championships 2003 - Report on the hurdles race ( memento of March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), IAAF website , July 12, 2003. Retrieved on August 10, 2012
2. ↑ Athletics - Bolt and Pearson World Athletes of the Year ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Die Zeit , November 12, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011. 
3. ↑ Top favorites do not stumble; Scrap strong eighth , HDsports.at , August 7, 2012
4. ↑ Sally Pearson stops. In: bote.ch. Bote der Urschweiz , August 6, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).