Anna Purchase

British athlete

Anna Purchase
Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	(1999-09-15) 15 September 1999 (age 24)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Hammer throw
Club	Notts AC

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]

Biography

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.

References

^ ^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 Cal Bears News, Analysis and More. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
^ "Chaucer Junior School, Ilkeston, had a special visitor today – hammer thrower Anna Purchase". Ilkeston Life. 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.