Perri Shakes-Drayton

Perri Shakes-Drayton
Perri Shakes-Drayton in London 2013
Full name	Peirresha Alexandra Shakes-Drayton
nation	United Kingdom of England
birthday	21st December 1988 (age 31)
place of birth	London , England
size	172 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Tower Hamlets and Victoria Park Harriers
Trainer	Chris Zah
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Daegu 2011 4 × 400 m silver London 2017 4 × 400 m  Indoor world championships gold Istanbul 2012 4 × 400 m  European championships silver Barcelona 2010 4 × 400 m bronze Barcelona 2010 400 m hurdles  European Indoor Championships gold Gothenburg 2013 400 m gold Gothenburg 2013 4 × 400 m  European championships gold Kaunas 2009 400 m hurdles  Junior European Championships silver Hengelo 2007 400 m hurdles
last change: March 26, 2019

Peirresha Alexandra Shakes-Drayton (born December 21, 1988 in London ) is a British hurdler who specializes in the 400 meter distance .

Athletic career

Perri Shakes-Drayton gained her first international experience at the Junior World Championships in Beijing in 2006 , where she finished eighth in 59.37 seconds. The following year she won the silver medal behind the German Fabienne Kohlmann at the European Junior Championships in Hengelo in a new British junior record of 56.46 seconds . In 2009 she won the U23 European Championships in Kaunas in 55.26 s and thus qualified for the World Championships in Berlin , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 57.57 s. In 2010 she reached fourth place at the World Indoor Championships in Doha with the British 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 30.29 minutes. Shakes-Drayton achieved his final international breakthrough at the European Championships in Barcelona at the end of July. In a new personal best of 54.18 s she took the bronze medal in the hurdles behind the Russian Natalja Antjuch and Vanja Stambolowa from Bulgaria. With the British relay she originally came in third place in 3: 24.32 minutes, but later moved up to silver because the Russian team was disqualified for doping.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , South Korea , she originally took fourth place with the British 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 23.63 min, but this time moved up to bronze. In the 400-meter hurdles she reached the semifinals, in which she was eliminated with 55.07 s. In 2012 she won the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul with Shana Cox , Nicola Sanders , Christine Ohuruogu and Shakes-Drayton in 3: 28.76 minutes ahead of the United States and Russia. In addition, she qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in London , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 55.19 s . In addition, she came fourth with the relay in 3: 24.76 min in the final after the Russian relay had been disqualified again. In March 2013, she won the gold medal in the 400-meter run in 50.85 seconds at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in the 4-by-400-meter relay in 3: 27.56 minutes. In August she again took part in the World Championships in Moscow , where she was seventh in 56.25 s.

After a three-year break from competition, Shakes-Drayton returned to the athletics stage in 2016 and contributed to winning the silver medal of the British team at the World Championships in London through her use in the preliminary stages in the 4 x 400 meter relay. In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and came fourth in the English season in 3: 27.21 minutes.

In 2008 and 2010, as well as in 2012 and 2013, Shakes-Drayton was British champion in the 400-meter hurdles. She graduated from Brunel University in London with a degree in sports science . In 2018 she was a participant in the tenth season of Dancing on Ice .

Personal best

• 400 m: 50.50 s on June 22, 2013 at Gateshead
  • 400 m (hall): 50.85 s, March 3, 2013 in Gothenburg
• 400 m hurdles: 53.67 s, 26 July 2013 in London

Web links

Commons : Perri Shakes-Drayton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Perri Shakes-Drayton in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Perri Shakes-Drayton in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at The Power of Ten

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Hengelo 2007