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Anna Purchase (born 15 September 1999) is an English international athlete based in the United States.[1] She has represented England at the Commonwealth Games.[1][2]
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Biography
[edit]Purchase was educated at the University of Nebraska and then the University of California, where she trained with future-World Champion, Camryn Rogers.[3] She started throwing at the age of 13 and became only the second British woman to break the 70 metre barrier.[4] She finished fourth at the 2021 European U23 Championships.[5][6]
In 2022, she was selected for the women's hammer throw event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[1][5] She was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest,[7] where she reached the final.
In 2024, she became the British hammer throw champion after winning the title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships.[8] Although Purchase met the qualification requirements for the Paris 2024 Olympics, she was not selected by British Athletics to compete and therefore was unable to take part.[9]
Purchase won a second British title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Official Commonwealth Games profile". Birmingham Organising Committee Commonwealth Games Ltd. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Anna Purchase". World Athletics. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ Faraudo, Jeff (23 August 2023). "Cal Alums Camryn Rogers and Anna Purchase Reach Hammer Throw Final at Worlds". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ "Chaucer Junior School, Ilkeston, had a special visitor today – hammer thrower Anna Purchase". Ilkeston Life. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Team England profile". Team England. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Anna Purchase results". The Power of 10. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "FINAL ADDITIONS TO GB & NI TEAM FOR WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS BUDAPEST 2023". British Athletics. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ "WAAA and National Championships Medallists". NUTS. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
- ^ Faraudo, Jeff (5 July 2024). "Cal Alum Anna Purchase 'Heartbroken' by Olympic Snub". Sports Illustrated.
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