Australian hammer thrower (born 2000)
Stephanie Ratcliffe
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| Nationality | Australian |
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| Born | (2000-12-29) 29 December 2000 (age 24) |
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| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] |
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| Sport | Athletics |
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| Event | Hammer throw |
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| Personal bests | Hammer: 73.63m (Austin, 2023) NR |
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Stephanie Ratcliffe (born 29 December 2000) is an Australian hammer thrower.[2]
Early life
From Melbourne, she started athletics when she was five years-old. She attended Doncaster Secondary College. In 2019 she won the Australian U20 hammer throw title. Later that year, she began a scholarship at Harvard University. However, she returned to Australia at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and studied remotely for 18 months.[3][4]
Career
She represented Australia in senior competition at the Oceania Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022.[5]
She set an Australian national record in the hammer throw in May 2023 at the East Regional Conference Final with a collegiate-leading mark of 73.11 metres, breaking the Australian record of Bronwyn Eagles set in 2003 by two metres.[6][7] She won the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor title in Austin, Texas in June 2023 with a new national record of 73.63 metres.[8] In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[9]
After transferring to the University of Georgia, she was runner-up at the SEC Championships in May 2024.[10] She competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[11][12]
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