Anna Purchase (born 15 September 1999) is an English international athlete based in the United States. She has represented England at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Purchase was educated at the

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and then the

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, where she trained with future-World Champion,

Camryn Rogers Camryn Rogers (born June 7, 1999) is a Canadian athlete specializing in the hammer throw. She is the reigning world champion, only the second Canadian woman to win gold at the World Athletics Championships. She is also the 2022 World silver meda ...

. She started throwing at the age of 13 and became only the second British woman to break the 70 metre barrier. She finished fourth at the 2021 European U23 Championships. In 2022, she was selected for the women's hammer throw event at the

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in Birmingham. She was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in

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, where she reached the

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References

1999 births Living people English female hammer throwers British female hammer throwers Commonwealth Games competitors for England Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{England-athletics-bio-stub