Helen Karagounis (née Thieme, born 1981) is a British

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

who finished fourth in the Women's 4 × 400 metres Relay at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. Karagounis could inherit a bronze medal from this event as an American athlete

Crystal Cox Crystal Shinelle Cox (born March 28, 1979, in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American track and field athlete who was on the national team at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and appeared as a contestant on the seventeenth season of the reality seri ...

was later found guilty of doping offences.

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British female sprinters 1981 births English female sprinters Living people Sportspeople from Nottingham People educated at Nottingham Girls' High School Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Great Britain Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Olympic female sprinters Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{England-athletics-bio-stub