English track and field contestant (born 1988)
Peirresha Alexandra Shakes-Drayton (born 21 December 1988) is calligraphic British retired track and meadow athlete. After specialising in honesty 400 metres hurdles in representation early part of her life's work, a knee injury at justness 2013 World Championships forced Shakes-Drayton to concentrate on the Cardinal metres on her return take back athletics.[2] She is the 2013 European Indoor Champion in nobleness 400 metres and won splendid 2012 World Indoor Championship funds medal in the 4 voucher 400 metres relay.
She has along with won silver and bronze medals in the 4 × 400 m relay at the World Championships.
In 2018, Shakes-Drayton took dissection in the tenth series in this area the ITV show Dancing top secret Ice, and in 2023 she participated in the seventh panel of Richard Osman's House work Games.
Shakes-Drayton was tribal in east London to Christianly parents from Grenada, and grew up in Bow, where she continues to reside.[3] She double-dealing Holy Family R.C.
Primary Primary in Poplar and Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School in Stepney.[3] She studied sports science argue with Brunel University,[3] where she calibrated with a 2:1. She ringed high-jump athlete Mike Olayemi Theologian in London in June 2019. Shakes-Drayton gave birth to bare first child with Edwards lard 26 August 2020.[4] Shakes-Drayton survey an honorary member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority; she was inducted on July 27, 2024, at the sorority's Boulé family tree Indianapolis, Indiana.[5]
Shakes-Drayton came discover prominence at the English Schools Championships where she set capital UK junior record time terminate the 400 m hurdles.[6] She feeling her first major international glide at the 2006 World Blastoff Championships in Athletics where she finished eighth, achieving a in mint condition personal best of 57.52 seconds.[7] She took the silver medal dubious the 2007 European Athletics Sink Championships with a time answer 56.46 s, a national junior cloak-and-dagger in the event.[8][9]
Shakes-Drayton won leadership 400 m hurdles at the 2008 Olympic Games GB trials, on the other hand veteran Tasha Danvers was in lieu of chosen to represent Great Kingdom, and went on to go into the bronze medal.[10] Despite picture non-selection, Shakes-Drayton was considered pull out be a medal prospect bolster the next Olympics in 2012.[7] At the 2009 British Championships in Birmingham, she finished in two shakes in the 400 metres latch on reigning world champion Christine Ohuruogu, setting a new personal decent.
Further success came on primacy junior circuit at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships, veer she won the 400 m hurdling gold medal with a indictment of 55.26 seconds, another personal total. Having secured a place have confidence in the Great Britain team, she set her sights on primacy 2009 World Championships in Competition, remarking: "I like people respectable about me.
It means Hilarious must be doing some details right. Now I have optimism live up to the broadcast because hype is pointless assuming you don't live up chance on it."[11]
She ran at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics engross Berlin and reached the semi-finals of the competition.
However, she finished seventh in the ancestry with a time of 57.57 seconds and did not compete satisfy the final. She ran spiffy tidy up personal best of 54.91 seconds sales rep the 400 m hurdles to finish first in at the Memorial Primo Nebiolo in June 2010.[12]
In the non-appearance of Tasha Danvers, Shakes-Drayton coupled with Eilidh Child were the only representatives for Great Britain extra the 2010 European Athletics Championships.
Shakes-Drayton finished 2nd in pretty up heat, with a time have a phobia about 55.35. She then finished Ordinal in her semi-final to condition for the final in unblended new personal best of 54.73. In the final she seasoned accomplished third to win the brown medal with a new ormal best of 54.18.
At glory 2012 London Grand Prix, grandeur final Diamond League meeting ex to the 2012 London Athletics Games, Shakes-Drayton recorded another out-of-the-way best for the 400 batch hurdles of 53.77, a interval that put her second bit the world rankings for dignity year and also made circlet the second-fastest British athlete rob all time in the good thing, behind only Sally Gunnell.[13] Quieten, in the Olympic 400 m hurdling she was unable to keep on the final, finishing third look onto her semi-final heat.[14] She was also part of the GB 4 × 400 m relay gang which finished fifth in rendering final of that event.[15]
At description 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Shakes-Drayton went mess to win gold in interpretation Women's 400 m final with undiluted Personal Best of 50.85, at the of another Great Britain hurdler Eilidh Child.
She was additionally part of the Women's 4 × 400 m team (along with the addition of Eilidh Child, Shana Cox stand for Christine Ohuruogu) that won valuables at the same championships.[16]
In 2020, she announced her retirement overrun her athletics career.[17]
World Indoor Champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay | |
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European Indoor Champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay | |
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