Sally Pearson

Sally Pearson at the 2011 World Cup

Sally Pearson ( born September 19, 1986 in Sydney as Sally McLellan ) is an Australian athlete, who specializes mainly in the 100 - meter hurdles. In 2008, she won the Olympic silver medal, 2011, she was in her best discipline world champion and 2012 she won Olympic gold.

Career

In her youth, Sally McLellan was the first gymnast. It was only after her family from New South Wales had moved to Queensland, she came to athletics. In 2003, she won the title over the 100 meters hurdles at the Junior World Championships in 13.42 s As a result, she was nominated as the youngest athlete ever for the Australian team at the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003. There it was used in the 100 - meter relay. At the Australian Open in March 2005, McLellan became the first participant in the 100 meters and the 100 meters hurdles. At the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka McLellan reached the semi-finals in the 100 meters and 100 meters hurdles, but each missed the finals. With the 100 - meter relay Sally McLellan had already failed in the flow. At the IAAF Super Grand Prix 2007 in Doha McLellan was third. They also reached at the 2007 IAAF Golden League meeting in Berlin the fourth, Brussels and Zurich sixth place. In 2008, she reached at the Golden League meeting in Rome the fourth, sixth Oslo and Berlin seventh. Sally McLellan won the silver medal behind Dawn Harper at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in 12.64 s.

Since 2010 she is married to Kieran Pearson, whose name she took. In the same year she won the 100 - meter hurdles at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. A year later, Pearson also won at the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu, South Korea on their parade route. She ran a time of 12.28 seconds and missed the world record over this distance by only 7 hundredths of a second. At the end of the season she was named by the IAAF for the world track and field athlete of the year 2011. In 2012 she took in London at the Olympics Gold at the 100 - meter hurdles with a time of 12.35 s

A year later she won at the World Championships in Moscow the silver medal after they had gone only moderately successful their season because of two torn muscle fibers.

In the winter of 2014, it showed up in good shape, to defend her World Indoor Championship titles: In an open-air meeting in Perth she won in 12.59 s and 1 March, she won with a Weltjahresbestleistung of 7.79 s the inaugural ISTAF Indoor.