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Sally Pearson
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Key facts
- Nationality
- Australian
- Born
- ( 1986-09-19 ) 19 September 1986 (age 39) , Sydney , Australia
- Height
- 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
- Weight
- 60 kg (132 lb)
- Website
- Official Facebook Page
- Country
- Australia
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event s
- 100 metres sprint, 200 metre sprint, 100 metres hurdles and 200 metre hurdles
- Coached by
- Sharon Hannan and Peter Hannan; Self-coached
- Retired
- 5 August 2019
- Olympic finals
- 100 m hurdles and 100 metre sprints
- Personal best s
- 11.14s–100 Metre Sprint , 12.28s–100 m Hurdles , 22.97s–200 m sprint , 1:02.98–400 m Hurdles , 7.16s–60 Metre Sprint
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sally
- Family name
- Pearson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Sydney
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Participant in
- 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Australia
- Mass
- 60
- Image
- Sally Pearson Daegu 2011.jpg
- Height
- 167
- Residence
- Gold Coast
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- Commons category
- Sally Pearson
- date of birth
- 1986-09-19
- sports discipline competed in
- 60 metres hurdles
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
- name in native language
- Sally Pearson
- birth name
- Sally McLellan
- social media followers
- 44303
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Encyclopedic overview
Sally Pearson, OAM (née McLellan; born 19 September 1986) is a retired Australian athlete who competed in the 100 metre hurdles. She is the 2011 and 2017 World champion and 2012 Olympic champion in the 100 metres hurdles. She also won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2013 World Championships.
Athletic career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sally Pearson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.