Lorraine Ugen
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Lorraine Ugen at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in 2015 | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Born |
22 August 1991 (age 24) London, England |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 Great Britain |
| Sport | Long jump, sprint |
Medal record
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Lorraine Ugen (born 22 August 1991) is a British long jumper and 100 m sprinter with respective personal bests of 6.92 m (15 May 2015, Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix) and 11.42 s (2 May 2015). She competed at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics and was fifth for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She has qualified for the 2016 Olympics in the long jump.[1]
She won an NCAA indoor and an NCAA outdoor title in the long jump for Texas Christian University.
Career
She was born in London.[2] She attended Townley Grammar School and 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.[3] She was initially a member of Bexley Athletic Club, but later began training with Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club.[4] 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.[1] She was runner-up at the UK Athletics Championships in 2011, but failed to register a mark at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships.[4]
Ugen went on to study at Texas Christian University in 2011 and began competing for the college's TCU Horned Frogs 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 6.74 m (22 ft 11⁄4 in) at that year's UK Championships, placing second but being just short of the Olympic qualifying standard.[3]
In 2013 she ranked fifth at the NCAA Indoors, then managed a jump of 6.77 m (22 ft 21⁄2 in) to win the NCAA Outdoor Division I title in the long jump.[3] The mark ranked her in the top twenty in the world for the event that year.[5] Internationally, she was a finalist at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships and represented Great Britain at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, though she failed to record a valid mark.[4]
Ugen began her 2014 season by winning the NCAA Indoor title with an indoor best of 6.73 m (22 ft 03⁄4 in), as well as taking the Big Ten Conference crown. She failed to defend her outdoor NCAA title, placing fourth with a mark under six and a half metres.[3] She competed for England for the first time at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and placed fifth while her younger compatriot Jazmin Sawyers took a medal. At the start of 2015 she jumped 6.72 m (22 ft 01⁄2 in) to win at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational, then followed this with a personal best of 6.93 m (22 ft 83⁄4 in) at the Portland, Oregon indoor athletics meeting, coming fourth.[4]
Personal bests
- Long jump (outdoor): 6.92 m (22 ft 81⁄4 in) (2015)
- Long jump (indoor): 6.93 m (22 ft 83⁄4 in)(2016)
- 100 metres: 11.42 seconds (2015)
International competitions
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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| 2009 | European Junior Championships | Novi Sad, Serbia | 11th (q) | 5.85 m |
| 2010 | World Junior Championships | Moncton, Canada | 17th (q) | 5.56 m (wind: -0.5 m/s) |
| 2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | NM (q) | NM |
| 2013 | European U23 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 4th (q) | 6.32 m |
| World Championships | Moscow, Russia | NM (q) | NM | |
| 2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, Scotland | 5th | 6.39 m |
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 5th | 6.85 m |
| 2016 | World Indoor Championships | Portland, United States | 3rd | 6.93 m |
References
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- 1 2 Lorraine Ugen. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-05-29.
- ↑ Lorraine Ugen. Glasgow2014. Retrieved on 2015-05-29.
- 1 2 3 4 Lorraine Ugen. GoFrogs. Retrieved on 2015-05-29.
- 1 2 3 4 Lorraine Ugen. Power of 10. Retrieved on 2015-05-29.
- ↑ Long Jump - women - senior - outdoor - 2013. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-05-29.