Shannon Hylton

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Shannon Hylton athletics
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom of EnglandEnglandEngland 
birthday 19th December 1996 (age 23)
place of birth Great Britain
size 168 cm
Weight 52 kg
Career
discipline 200 metres
Best performance 22.94 s
Trainer Ryan Freckleto
Medal table
U20 European Championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
EAA logo Junior European Championships
gold Eskilstuna 2015 4 × 100 m
silver Eskilstuna 2015 200 m
last change: September 15, 2017

Shannon Hylton (born December 19, 1996 ) is a British sprinter who specializes in the 200 meters .

Athletic career

Shannon Hylton gained her first international experience at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk , where she finished sixth over 200 meters. In 2014, she narrowly missed a medal in fourth at the Junior World Championships in Eugene . In 2015, she won the gold medal with the British relay at the European Junior Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden, and missed the gold medal in the 200-meter run despite a wind-assisted time of 22.73 seconds, defeating the German Gina Lückenkemper . In 2017 she qualified for the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated in the preliminary round.

So far she has once been British Champion and Indoor Champion. Her twin sister Cheriece Hylton is also a sprinter.

Personal bests

  • 100 m: 11.47 s (+1.3 m / s), May 21, 2017 in Loughborough
    • 60 m (hall): 7.37 s, 11 February 2017 in Sheffield
  • 200 m: 22.94 s (+2.0 m / s), May 17, 2015 in Loughborough
    • Hall: 23.24s, February 9, 2014 in Sheffield

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hylton, Shannon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1996