Angie Thorp

Angie Thorp

Personal information
Full name	Angela Caroline Thorp
Nationality	British
Born	(1972-12-07) 7 December 1972 (age 52) Wombwell, England
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 metres Hurdles, 4 × 100 metres relay
Club	Wigan Harriers

Angela Caroline Thorp (born 7 December 1972) is a female British 100 metres hurdler and sprinter.

Athletics career

Thorp competed in the 100 metres hurdles and women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics.^[1]

She broke the British 100 metres hurdles record of 1992 Olympic Champion Sally Gunnell at the games, running a personal best time of 12.80 seconds in the semi-final finishing 5th. She therefore did not make one of the top four qualifiers for the final. However, the 3rd placed athlete in this semi-final, Nataliya Shekhodanova of Russia, was subsequently disqualified after the final for doping offences which meant that also after the final Thorp was retrospectively upgraded to 4th place in the semi-final.^[2][3] At the games she was also a part of the British team which finished 8th in the 4 x 100 metres relay final.

Thorp won a British title in 1996 ^[4] and represented England in the 100 metres hurdles event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[5][6]

Thorp's British record stood for 15 years until it was broken in 2011 by Tiffany Porter.^[7] Thorp said that she was "devastated" at losing her record to an American-born athlete. She said that she would have congratulated an established British athlete who took her record; at the time Jessica Ennis and Sarah Claxton both had personal bests of 12.81s.^[8] Ennis later took the British record at the London 2012 Olympic Games.^[9]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Angie Thorp Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
2. "1996 Atlanta 100m hurdles semi finals". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
3. "Thorp back on the blocks". Manchester Evening News. 17 February 2007.
4. "Athlete Profile". World Athletics.
5. "1998 Athletes". Team England.
6. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
7. "All time rankings". Power of 10.
8. Gare Joyce (29 November 2012). "What Does the Flag Mean: Nationalism and the Olympics". Sportsnet. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
9. "London 2012: Jessica Ennis sets hurdles record to build heptathlon lead". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2021.

External links

• Angie Thorp at World Athletics
• Angie Thorp at Olympedia
• Angie Thorp at Team GB