Sarah Claxton (born 23 September 1979) is a retired English athlete who specialised in the

100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is ...

. Claxton grew up in Colchester, Essex. She attended Monkwick Infant and Junior schools then went on to The Thomas Lord Audley School aged 11. She finished eighth at the 2008 Olympic Games. She also competed at the

2004 Olympic Games 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), ...

, the 2005 World Championships as well as the World Indoor Championships in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006 and

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without reaching the final round. Her personal best time for 100m hurdles is 12.81 seconds, achieved in July 2008 in

Loughborough Loughborough ( ) is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. At the 2011 census the town's built-up area had a population of 59,932 , the second large ...

. She is a former British record holder in the 60 metres hurdles, with a personal best of 7.96 seconds, achieved in February 2005 in

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...

. However, this was beaten by

Tiffany Porter Dr. Tiffany Adaeze Porter ( Ofili; born 13 November 1987) is a track and field athlete with joint British and American nationality who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles. She represented the United States as a junior, but began representing Gr ...

in 2011 with a time of 7.80s at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She formerly competed in the long jump as well. She finished fourth at the

1998 World Junior Championships 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

. Her personal best jump was 6.60 metres, achieved in August 2003 in

Tessenderlo Tessenderlo (; li, Loei) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg. It is where the three Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp meet at the front gate of the Averbode Abbey. The municipality Tessenderlo encompass ...

. In 2023, she took part in the third series of DNA Family Secrets, attempting to discover who her biological father is, having never known him.

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* 1979 births Living people British female hurdlers British female long jumpers Olympic female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for England Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain British Athletics Championships winners AAA Championships winners Black British sportswomen {{England-athletics-bio-stub