Sophie McKinna
Personal information | |
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Born | Gorleston, England, United Kingdom | 31 August 1994
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] |
Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Shot put |
Club | Great Yarmouth |
Coached by | Geoff Capes (–2014) Mike Winch (2015–)[2] |
Sophie McKinna (born 31 August 1994) is a Norfolk born, [[Great British Olympic athlete specialising in the shot put.[3] She won silver medals at the 2011 World Youth Championships and 2013 European Junior Championships. She became the 2019 British Indoor and Outdoor Champion.
Her indoor personal best is 17.97 metres (Birmingham 2019). At the 2019 World Championships in Doha she threw a new outdoor personal best of 18.61m to qualify for the final.[4] By throwing over the 18.50m required she has now also qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Sophie must finish in the top two at the British Outdoor Championships to be selected for the games.
In 2020 she became a double British champion when successfully defending her title and winning the shot put event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships with a throw of 17.88 metres.[5]
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Great Britain and England | |||||
2010 | Youth Olympic Games | Singapore | 5th | Shot put | 15.14 m |
2011 | World Youth Championships | Lille, France | 2nd | Shot put | 14.90 m |
Commonwealth Youth Games | Douglas, Isle of Man | 1st | Shot put | 14.75 m | |
2012 | World Junior Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 6th | Shot put | 15.98 m |
2013 | European Cup Winter Throwing (U23) | Castellón, Spain | 2nd | Shot put | 16.09 m |
European Junior Championships | Rieti, Italy | 2nd | Shot put | 17.09 m | |
2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 5th | Shot put | 16.59 m |
2015 | European U23 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 9th | Shot put | 15.68 m |
2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 5th | Shot put | 17.76 m |
European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 7th | Shot put | 17.69 m | |
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 10th (q) | Shot put | 17.18 m |
European Team Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 3rd | Shot put | 17.94 m | |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 11th | Shot put | 17.99 m | |
2021 | European Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 9th (q) | Shot put | 17.95 m |
Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 16th (q) | Shot put | 17.81 m |
References[]
- ^ "Team England bio". Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Power of 10 profile". Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ Sophie McKinna at World Athletics
- ^ "BBC Live Athletics".
- ^ "Results list". British Athletics.
External links[]
- Sophie McKinna on Twitter
- Sophie McKinna at British Athletics
- Sophie McKinna at Power of 10
- Sophie McKinna at European Athletics (archived)
- Sophie McKinna at World Athletics
- Sophie McKinna at Team GB
- Sophie McKinna at Olympedia
- Sophie McKinna at Team England
- Sophie McKinna at the Commonwealth Games Federation
- Sophie McKinna at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
- 1994 births
- Living people
- English female shot putters
- British female shot putters
- Olympic athletes of Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- British Athletics Championships winners
- Sportspeople from Great Yarmouth
- English athletics biography stubs