Sally Pearson

Sally Pearson is an Australian former hurdler who won Olympic gold in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2012 London Games.

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2012 Summer Olympics: The Olympic Games held in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Pearson won the 100 metres hurdles final here in an Olympic-record time.
100 metres hurdles: A sprint race in which athletes clear ten evenly spaced hurdles over 100 metres. Pearson specialized in this event, where technique must hold at sprint speed.
Shane Pearson: An Australian athletics coach who coached Sally Pearson during her senior career. His coaching partnership helped guide her preparation and competitive development.
Australian athletics: The organized sport of track and field in Australia, governed nationally by Athletics Australia. Pearson became one of the country's most successful track-and-field athletes.
2011 World Championships in Athletics: The 2011 global outdoor track-and-field championships held in Daegu, South Korea. Pearson won the 100 metres hurdles title a year before her Olympic victory.
Hurdling: A track-and-field discipline in which athletes sprint over a sequence of barriers. It is the broader discipline underlying Pearson's event and technique.
Dawn Fraser: An Australian swimmer who won four Olympic gold medals between 1956 and 1964. Fraser and Pearson are prominent Australian women whose Olympic victories shaped national sporting history.
Olympic record: The fastest performance recorded in an event at the Olympic Games. Pearson's 12.35-second London final set an Olympic record in the women's hurdles.
2017 World Championships in Athletics: The 2017 global outdoor track-and-field championships held in London. Pearson returned from injury to win her second world 100 metres hurdles title.
Sprint: A short-distance race run at near-maximum speed. Pearson's hurdle events combine sprint acceleration with repeated barrier clearance.