Sport Track and field Education University of Florida Name Shara Proctor Events Long jump | Height 1.65 m Nationality British, Anguillan Weight 60 kg | |
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Born 16 September 1988 (age 35) ( 1988-09-16 ) The Valley, Anguilla Residence Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK College team Florida Gators track and field Profiles | ||
Shara Proctor 6.89 Long Jump British Record
Shara Proctor (born 16 September 1988) is an Anguillan long jumper, competing for Great Britain since 2011. She is the national record holder of both Anguilla and Great Britain. On 28 August 2015 at the World Championships in Beijing she became the first British female long jumper to jump over 7 meters (7.07), setting a new British record, and earning a world championship silver medal. She also won the 2013 IAAF Diamond League in the event.
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Representing Anguilla
She competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2007 World Championships for Anguilla, but without reaching the final round.
In November 2010, she transferred her allegiance to Great Britain. A British Overseas Territory, Anguilla does not have a National Olympic Committee (NOC) of its own; the British Olympic Association is recognised as the appropriate NOC for such athletes and thus Anguillan athletes who hold a British passport are eligible to represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games. Following her transfer of allegiance, however, Proctor also became eligible to compete for Great Britain at European and World Championships.
Representing Great Britain
In 2012, Proctor won her first senior medal for Great Britain, a bronze medal in the long jump in the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships, after a British national indoor record leap of 6.89 metres.
Her longest jumps outdoors are 7.07 metres in the long jump, achieved in August 2015 in Beijing; and 13.74 metres in the triple jump, achieved in May 2009 in Greensboro.
In November 2012 Proctor moved from her training base at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach to Loughborough when her coach Rana Reider was recruited to work at UK Athletics. On Reider's move to the Netherlands, Proctor relocated to stay with her coach. .
On 28 August 2015 at the World Championships in Beijing she became the first British female long jumper to jump over 7 meters (7.07) thus setting a new British record, and earning a silver medal.