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Sally Pearson
- Birthplace
Sydney
- Height
167 cm
- Weight
60.0 kg
Olympic Games (2 medals: 1 gold, 1 silver)
- 100m hurdles : 1st (2012), 2nd (2008)
World Championships (2 medals: 1 gold, 1 silver)
- 100m hurdles: 1st (2011), 2nd (2013)
World Indoor Championships (2 medals: 1 gold, 1 silver)
- 60m hurdles: 1st (2012), 2nd (2014)
Commonwealth Games (3 medals: 2 gold, 1 bronze)
- 100m hurdles: 1st (2010, 2014)
- 4x100m relay: 3rd (2006)
Fitness the key for Pearson as she targets unprecedented double
Reigning 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson faces a race against the clock to be fully fit for the Rio Games.
In June 2015, the 29-year-old fractured her wrist at a Diamond League meeting in Rome, which kept her out of action until the following year. She is now hoping for a full recovery as she bids to become the first female athlete to successfully defend the Olympic 100m hurdles title.
In 2011, Pearson was crowned world champion, before becoming the first Australian to be named IAAF Athlete of the Year. A year later, she took gold in London after silve
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Bio
“Of all the athletes I’ve met over the years, I’ve never met anyone who’s a fiercer competitor, a more courageous competitor or more determined… I’ve never met anyone who has a stronger will to win than Sally Pearson.” – Bruce McAvaney
Sally Pearson is one of Australia’s greatest Olympians and regarded as the nation’s most successful track athlete of all time.
It was at Beijing 2008 when Sally made her Olympic debut in the 100m hurdles, creating history when she claimed silver behind USA’s Dawn Harper. Sally’s silver medal marked the first time in 40 years that an Australian won a medal in the hurdles.
At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Sally became just the 10th female Australian track athlete to win a gold medal in the 100m hurdles, smashing the Olympic record in the process, a record Sally still holds to this day.
A year earlier at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea – the Australian track queen cemented her greatness by clocking the incredible time of 12.28 seconds; just 0.07 seconds outside the world re
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Sally’s Book
BELIEVE BY SALLY PEARSON
AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF AIMING HIGH
‘We’re a sporting nation; we can’t help ourselves, we love winners. Believe is a story about winning by never giving in, about a ceaseless quest by one of our champions, about our Sally. It’s a great and ongoing story’
– General Peter Cosgrove
Olympic champion Sally Pearson is one of Australia’s most treasured athletes. The first Australian to win a gold medal on the Olympic athletics track since Cathy Freeman in 2000, Pearson’s honest pursuit of excellence and her refusal to allow any obstacle to stand in her way have lead her to be one of the greatest and most loved athletes in the country.
Sally Pearson has shown throughout her remarkable career that competitiveness and passion are hardwired into her very being. Not since Cathy Freeman in the Sydney Olympics have Australians been so excited by the international success of a sportswoman. Sally’s triumphs on the athletics field — a gruelling test of concentration, technique, speed and endurance — are a tribute to her i
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