Ashia Hansen
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Full name | Ashia Kate Nana Korantima Hansen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Evansville, Indiana, US | 5 December 1971|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Birchfield Harriers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ashia Hansen,
Early life
Although born in the United States, Hansen was adopted when she was 3 months old by a
Athletics career
Hansen trained at Ilford AC then Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club in Birmingham, along with other successful British athletes such as Denise Lewis, Kelly Sotherton, Mark Lewis-Francis and Katharine Merry.[4] She was trained by Commonwealth Games medallist Aston Moore.
At the
Hansen won her first major outdoor gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a jump of 14.32m.
At the 1999 World Indoor Championships in Maebashi, Japan, Hansen won Gold with a world leading jump of 15.02m.
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England Hansen retained her Commonwealth gold with a Games Record jump of 14.86m.
In 2002 Hansen won gold at the European Championships in Munich, Germany with a jump of 15.00m.[5]
Hansen won her second World Indoor title at the 2003 Championships in Birmingham, UK with a jump of 15.01m.
Hansen suffered a serious knee injury during the 2004 European Cup, requiring extensive surgery. She returned to triple jumping and competed at the British Championships, where she immediately climbed back to the top of the British rankings; however, she decided not to be part of the team for the European Athletics Championships that summer. [citation needed] She was hoping to make the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but was unable to regain fitness in time and announced her retirement in July 2008.[6][7]
Competition record
Personal life
Hansen was appointed a
Hansen has two younger sisters, one of them is her parents' biological child and the other an adopted cousin.[2] She has two children herself.
References
- ^ a b "Ashia Hansen MBE". BBC. 31 December 2002.
- ^ a b c "High, wide and Hansen". guardian.co.uk. 3 August 2003.
- ^ "The Monday Interview: Ashia Hansen – Leap of Faith". guardian.co.uk. 22 July 2002.
- ^ "Birmingham and Black Country Hall of Fame". BBC. October 2005.
- ^ "Hansen leaps to glory". BBC. 10 August 2002.
- telegraph.co.uk. 9 July 2008.
- ^ "Ashia Hansen announces retirement". UK Athletics. 9 July 2008.
- ^ No mark in the final
- ^ "No. 56797". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2002. p. 17.