Lorraine Shaw

Lorraine Shaw
Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	2 April 1968 (age 58); Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	91 kg (201 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	hammer throw
Club	Sale Harriers Manchester
Medal record
Athletics
Representing England
Commonwealth Games

Lorraine Amanda Shaw (born 2 April 1968) is an English hammer thrower who competed at two Olympic Games.

Biography

Shaw's personal best throw, and the previous British record, is 68.93 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Loughborough.^[1] She competed at four consecutive Commonwealth Games; starting in 1994 when she represented England in the hammer throw event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.^[2]^[3] Four years later she represented England and won a silver medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[4]^[5] This was followed by a gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.^[6]

Domestically, Shaw won seven AAA hammer throw titles in 1994,^[7] 1998, 2000,^[8] 2001,^[9] 2002,^[10] 2003 and 2004.^[11]^[12]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Great Britain and England
1994	Commonwealth Games	Victoria, Canada	10th	Discus throw	50.50 m
1998	Commonwealth Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd	Hammer throw	62.66 m
1998	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	11th	Hammer throw	58.19 m
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	14th	Hammer throw	62.09 m
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	9th	Hammer throw	64.27 m
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	6th	Hammer throw	65.89 m
2002	Commonwealth Games	Manchester, United Kingdom	1st	Hammer throw	66.83 m
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	20th (q)	Hammer throw	61.50 m
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	10th	Hammer throw	65.95 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	30th (q)	Hammer throw	64.79 m
2006	Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia	3rd	Hammer throw	66.00 m

^ UK All-Time Lists: Women - Throws - GBR Athletics
^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
^ "Classy Crampton hits the jackpot". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 13 June 1994. Retrieved 31 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Weekend results". The Scotsman. 14 August 2000. Retrieved 4 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Athletics". The Scotsman. 16 July 2001. Retrieved 4 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Weekend results - Athletics". The Scotsman. 15 July 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 31 March 2025.