Sally Gunnel GB 400 m hurdles Olympic champion 1992

Sally is a former world class British track and field athlete who was active between 1984 and 1997.

Sally is the only British female athlete to have won all 4 majors - Olympics, World, European and Commonwealth titles She is also the first female 400m hurdler in history to win the Olympic and World titles and break the world record (52.74 secs in 1993).
She was also an accomplished long jumper, heptathlete and 100m hurdler.
She retired in September 1997 after a recurrence of an Achilles tendon injury forced her to pull out of the World Championship semi-final.
( Read her* Athletics career*)
She was named World and European Female of the Year in 1993 and made an MBE in 1993 and an OBE in 1998.C

When Sally retired from athletics she worked as a television presenter, predominately for the BBC until 2006. She co-hosted Body Heat (1994/6) for ITV with Mike Smith and Jeremy Guscott.

She is now involved as one of the ambassadors for McCain’s Track & Field partnership with UK Athletics.

In 1993 received a MBE and in 1998 an OBE…
In 2011 Sally was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex.