Amber Anning
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Citizenship | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | London, England | 18 November 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | Brighton & Hove AC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Chris Johnson since 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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World finals | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Regional finals | 2019 Indoor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 200m: 22.60 (Fayetteville, 2024) 400m: 49.51 (Gainesville, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amber Anning (born 18 November 2000)[1] is a British sprinter. She is the British record holder indoors over 200m and she was part of British teams that won medals in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay events at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships and 2023 World Athletics Championships. She also won medals at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games and the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships. Anning competed in college athletics for LSU Tigers and Arkansas Razorbacks.
Personal life
Anning was born in London, England and spent her early years in Hove and Australia. She attended Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College.[1] In 2020, Anning began studying at Louisiana State University on a scholarship. In 2022 she transferred to the University of Arkansas.[2] She graduated in 2024 with a degree in Advertising and Public Relations with minors in Journalism, Strategic Media and Psychology.[3]
Career
Anning has competed for Brighton & Hove Athletic Club since she was nine years old.[4] From the age of 16, until his unexpected death in 2021, she was coached by Lloyd Cowan.[1][2] Anning broke the British under-15 300 metres record running 38.73 seconds and was the first, and to date, the only British under-15 to run sub 39 seconds. The previous record holder was Dina Asher-Smith.[2]
At the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, Amber finished third in the 400 metres event and was part of the England team that finished second in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay. She missed the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships due to injury.[5]
Aged 17, she won a bronze medal over 200m at the British Indoor Championships. A year later, at 18, she came second over 400m at the British Indoor Championships, running 53s dead to break the nearly 50-year-old British U20 Indoor record of Marilyn Neufville. With this she auto-qualified for the individual 400m and the British relay squad, which won the silver medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[2] In the same year, Amber also finished second in the 400 metres event at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships, and anchored the British team to victory in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay competition at the championships.[2]
In 2020, she started competing in college athletics for LSU Tigers,[6] where she was coached by Dennis Shaver.[2] In August 2022, she transferred to Arkansas Razorbacks.[6]
At the 2023 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, she was part of the Arkansas relay team that set the fastest women's indoor 4 × 400 metres relay time in history of 3:21.75. Anning's time on the first leg was the fifth fastest ever.[6] Anning was a member of the British team that finished third in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. It was her first senior World Championships, and she ran the second leg of the race splitting 49.70 seconds in the heat and 49.82 seconds in the final.[4]
In January 2024, Amber broke Katharine Merry's 25-year-old 200m British Indoor record, clocking 22.60 at Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.[7]
In March 2024, she won the 400m at the 2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston in 50.79 seconds, leading her teammates Nickisha Pryce and Rosey Effiong to an historic podium as Arkansas became the first women's program to have a 1–2–3 finish in the 400 at the NCAA Indoor meet.[8] The Arkansas Razorbacks, led for the first time by Head Coach, Chris 'Captain' Johnson, also won the women's team title for the second year in a row.[9] In May 2024, Anning ran 49.51 seconds over 400m at the SEC Track and Field Championships, to move to third place on the British All-Time list, behind Christine Ohuruogu and Kathy Smallwood.[10] At the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships Amber won the bronze medal over 400m, running 49.59 seconds, in an historic race in which the Razorbacks achieved a 'super sweep' of the top four places.[11] In the women's 4 x 400 metres relay, Anning, Effiong, Pryce and Kaylyn Brown set a collegiate record time of 3:17.96 to win the event for Arkansas.[12] In her combined college athletics career, Anning won All-America honours on five occasions. She became a fully professional athlete in 2024 after graduating from Arkansas.[3]
Later in 2024, Anning won the 400 metres event at the 2024 British Athletics Championships, and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics as a result.[13]
References
- ^ a b c "Amber Anning". Arkansas Razorbacks. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "Amber Anning's move to United States will boost her Tokyo Olympics credentials". The Daily Telegraph. 23 July 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Amber Anning prepares for professional debut". The Arkansas Traveler. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Three medals for Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the final day at the World Championships". England Athletics. 28 August 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ "ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT – AMBER ANNING". Sussex Athletics. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Meet Amber Anning and Yusuf Bizimana". Athletics Weekly. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ "Amber Anning: Paris 2024 Olympics would be 'icing on cake' for record-breaking Team GB sprinter". BBC Sport. 6 February 2024. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ "NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships: Women's 400 M" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Arkansas women's track and field wins second straight NCAA indoor title | Whole Hog Sports". www.wholehogsports.com. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "AN ASTONISHING 49.51 FOR AMBER ANNING, NOW #3 ON GB 400M ALL-TIME LIST". Sussex Athletics. 14 May 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship Results". Runner's World. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ AP, AP (9 June 2024). "Arkansas wins NCAA women's outdoor track and field team title". ESPN. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Asher-Smith reaches Olympics as young GB stars shine". BBC Sport. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
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- World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
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