Jade Louise Lally (born 30 March 1987) is a British

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete. She won a bronze medal for England in the women's discus at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

, and represented Great Britain at the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

. Her personal best is 65.10m set at the New South Wales Open Championships (AUS) on 27th February 2016. Jade is also an indoor rowing competitor and world championship medalist. She finished in 2nd place at the 2022 WRICH in the 500m open sprint event with a time of 1:28.7. She currently holds the British records in the 100m, 1 minute and 500m.

Career

Born in

Tooting Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth and partly in the London Borough of Merton. It is located south south-west of Charing Cross. History Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times ...

, Lally grew up on Phipps Bridge Estate and attended Bishopsford Community High School. Lally began athletics as a high jumper. This began her interest in the sport and led to her joining her first club, Hercules Wimbledon AC, where she took up discus throwing. At the

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, she finished sixth in 2004, and seventh in 2005, before going on to win the 2006 AAA Junior Championships title, with a distance of 46.60. Lally won a bronze medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

, with a throw of 54.44 metres. She won the 2010 British Championships. went on to represent England at that years

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, where she finished sixth in the

. In 2011, she won both the British and English Championships. Lally retained her English in 2012, and went on to compete at that years

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, being knocked out in the

competition in qualifying after her second-worst performance of the year, finishing 22nd. This was her first senior British international competition. She was overlooked for selection to go to what would have been a home Olympics despite achieving two B standard qualifying marks and finishing in the top two at the British Championships. At the

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, Lally finished sixth in

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, and eighth in

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. before going on to win a bronze medal at the

in Glasgow in the

, with a throw of 60.48 metres. After winning her fourth British and English Championship titles in 2015, Lally broke the English discus record with a throw of 64.22 metres at the Auckland Track Challenge on 25 February 2016, then improved it to 65.10 metres at the New South Wales Championships on 27 February 2016. This performance ranks her second on the British all-time list behind Scotland's

Meg Ritchie Margaret "Meg" Elizabeth Stone (née Ritchie, born 6 July 1952) is a retired Scottish discus thrower and Shot putter. She reached the Olympic finals at discus in Moscow 1980 (9th) and Los Angeles 1984 (5th). She also won the 1982 Commonwealth ...

. She also holds the British indoor discus throw record holder, with a mark of 58.97 metres from the World Indoor Throws in Vaxjo, Sweden in 2013. and holds two club records in Under 23 and Senior discus at

Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers are a UK athletics club based in Hendon, north west London. Their home track is Copthall Stadium. History Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers was founded in 1890 and amalgamated with Barnet Ladies in autumn 1986. The club qua ...

Personal life

Lally was expecting her first child, due in August 2019. In April 2019 she spoke about her pregnancy as an athlete.

International competitions

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lally, Jade 1987 births Living people People from Tooting Sportspeople from the London Borough of Wandsworth Athletes from London English female discus throwers British female discus throwers Olympic female discus throwers Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain British Athletics Championships winners Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games European Games competitors for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games