Sally Gunnell

Sally Gunnell

Sally Jane Janet Gunnell (born 29 July 1966) is a British former track-and-field athlete, active between 1984 and 1997, who won the 1992 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles. During a golden 24-month period between 1992 and 1994, Gunnell won every international event open to her, claiming Olympic Games, World Championship, European Championship, Commonwealth Games, Goodwill Games, IAAF World Cup and European Cup golds in the event, and breaking the British, European and World records in it. She is the only female British athlete to have won all four 'majors'; Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles, and was the first female 400 metres hurdler in history to win the Olympic and World titles and break the world record. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sally Gunnell has received more than 497,795 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sally Gunnell is the 3,284th most popular athlete (down from 2,418th in 2019), the 6,782nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,189th in 2019) and the 104th most popular British Athlete.