Sophie Hitchon

Sophie Hitchon
Sophie Hitchon 2016 in Rio de Janeiro
nation	United Kingdom , England
birthday	11th July 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Burnley , England
size	170 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	74.54 m
society	Blackburn Harriers
National squad	since 2011
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 74.54 m  Commonwealth Games bronze Glasgow 2014 68.72 m  U23 European Championships bronze Ostrava 2011 69.59 m gold Tampere 2013 70.72 m  Junior World Championships gold Moncton 2010 66.01 m  Junior European Championships bronze Novi Sad 2009 63.18 m
last change: April 30, 2017

Sophie Hitchon (born July 11, 1991 in Burnley ) is a British hammer thrower .

Athletic career

In 2009 she won bronze at the Junior European Championships in Novi Sad , and in 2010 she won the Junior World Championships in Moncton . In 2011 she won bronze at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu .

The following year she was tenth at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2012 and twelfth at the Olympic Games in London . In 2013, a victory at the U23 European Championships in Tampere was followed by another preliminary round at the World Cup in Moscow . In 2014 she won bronze for England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . At the European Championships in Zurich , she failed in qualifying.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, she was fourth with the British record of 73.86 m. In 2016 she took fourth place at the European Championships . She also won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

So far she has been British champion four times (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015).

Web links

• Sophie Hitchon in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at The Power of Ten
• Sophie Hitchon in the database of TOPS in athletics (English)
• Sophie Hitchon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )