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Australian hammer thrower (born 2000)
Stephanie Ratcliffe
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2000-12-29) 29 December 2000 (age 24)
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventHammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal bestsHammer: 73.63m (Austin, 2023) NR

Stephanie Ratcliffe (born 29 December 2000) is an Australian hammer thrower.

Early life

From Melbourne, she started athletics when she was five years-old. She attended Doncaster Secondary College. In 2019 she won the Australian U20 hammer throw title. Later that year, she began a scholarship at Harvard University. However, she returned to Australia at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and studied remotely for 18 months.

Career

She represented Australia in senior competition at the Oceania Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022.

She set an Australian national record in the hammer throw in May 2023 at the East Regional Conference Final with a collegiate-leading mark of 73.11 metres, breaking the Australian record of Bronwyn Eagles set in 2003 by two metres. She won the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor title in Austin, Texas in June 2023 with a new national record of 73.63 metres. In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

After transferring to the University of Georgia, she was runner-up at the SEC Championships in May 2024. She competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

References

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