Sally Gunnell
Sally Jane Janet Gunnell, OBE, DL (born 29 July 1966) is a British former track-and-field athlete, active between 1984 and 1997, who won the 1992 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles.[citation needed] Gunnell started out in athletics with the Essex Ladies club[5] as an accomplished long jumper and heptathlete, before specialising in hurdling.In 1984, she narrowly missed Olympic selection at both heptathlon, with a score of 5680 points and in the 100 metres hurdles, where she set a UK junior record of 13.30 secs.Outdoors, she finished second in the 400 m hurdles at the European Cup behind East Germany's Petra Krug, but ahead of Olympic silver medallist Tatyana Ledovskaya.[citation needed] She also co-hosted the game show Body Heat (1994–96) on ITV with Mike Smith and Jeremy Guscott.– Series 7 (1993–94), co-winning with Michaela Strachan, donating her winnings to a charity working to find a cure for breast cancer.[14] In 2012, Gunnell was one of five Olympians chosen as part of a series body-casting artworks by Louise Giblin exhibited in London and copies were being sold in aid of the charity Headfirst.
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