Lorraine Ugen (born 22 August 1991) is an English

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

er and occasional 100 m sprinter with respective personal bests of 7.05 m and 11.32 s. Ugen competed for Great Britain at the

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in Rio in the long jump, finishing in eleventh place.Lorraine Ugen
IAAF. Retrieved on 29 May 2015. Ugen captained the Great Britain team at the inaugural

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in 2018, winning gold in the women's long jump. For England, she anchored the women's 4 x 100 metres relay team to gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. As a collegiate athlete in the United States, she won an NCAA indoor and an NCAA outdoor title in the long jump for

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Career

Ugen was born in

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on 22 August 1991. As a child, she attended Townley Grammar School before going on to study at Christ the King Sixth Form College and then

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. She achieved national success at a young age, winning both the indoor and outdoor long jump titles at the 2009 English junior championships, as well as the English Schools' Athletics Championships.Lorraine Ugen
. GoFrogs. Retrieved on 29 May 2015. She was initially a member of Bexley Athletic Club, but later began training with Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club.Lorraine Ugen
Power of 10. Retrieved on 29 May 2015. During the 2016 season, Lorraine joined the Thames Valley Harriers Athletic Club. In her international debut, she competed in qualifying only at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships, then met the same fate at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She was runner-up at the

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in 2011, but failed to register a mark at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships. Ugen went on to study at

in 2011 and began competing for the college's

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athletic team the following year. She made her first appearance at the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2012, but did not record a valid mark at either event. She achieved a personal best of at that year's UK Championships, placing second but being just short of the Olympic qualifying standard. In 2013, she ranked fifth at the NCAA Indoors, then managed a jump of to win the NCAA Outdoor Division I title in the long jump. The mark ranked her in the top twenty in the world for the event that year. Internationally, she was a finalist at the

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and represented Great Britain at the

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, though she failed to record a valid mark. Ugen began her 2014 season by winning the NCAA Indoor title with an indoor best of , as well as taking the

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crown. She failed to defend her outdoor NCAA title, placing fourth with a mark under six and a half metres. Ugen competed for England for the first time at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she placed fifth (5th). At the start of 2015 she jumped to win at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational, then followed this with a then personal best of at the Portland, Oregon indoor athletics meeting, coming fourth. She has recently increased her personal best while soaring to great lengths at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade during the 2017 season. With a new personal best of 6.97m, Ugen also gained a new British National Record and a silver medal. She was selected to compete in the long jump for Team GB at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Personal bests

Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

(outdoor): (2018) *Long jump (indoor): (2017) *

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: 11.32 seconds (2018)

International competitions

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* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ugen, Lorraine 1991 births Living people Athletes from London British female long jumpers English female long jumpers British female sprinters English female sprinters Olympic female long jumpers Olympic athletes of Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games gold 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 TCU Horned Frogs women's track and field athletes Black British sportswomen British people of Barbadian descent Commonwealth Games competitors for England Members of Thames Valley Harriers Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games