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Sally Pearson

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Sally Pearson is one of Australia's greatest Olympians and the fourth fastest 100m hurdler in history. At the 2012 London Olympic Games she became just the 10th female Australian track athlete to win a gold medal, smashing the Olympic record in the process. A year earlier at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, the Gold Coast hurdler confirmed her greatness by clocking the incredible time of 12.28sec - just .07sec outside the world record - to claim victory. Sally Pearson is also in the media, commentating sporting events and appearing in films, such as "The Edge" (2022), "Commonwealth Games" (1954) and "A Second Chance: Rivals!" (2019). She has been married to Kieran Pearson since April 2010.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elaine Miller

Won a gold medal for Australia in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Won a silver medal for Australia in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Won the 2011 World Athletics Championship in the 100 metres hurdles at Daegu, South Korea.
Won a gold medal for Australia in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

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