Ella Connolly (born 13 July 2000) is an Australian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the

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and at the

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, with the latter Australian team and this Connolly winning the silver medal. Connolly was the national 100 m and 200 m champion in 2022 and part of the Australian 4 × 100 m relay team which set a championship record in winning the

2022 Oceania Athletics Championships The 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships, the sixteenth edition of the Oceania Athletics Championships, were held in Mackay, North Queensland from June 7–9, 2022. Originally scheduled for 2021 in Port Vila, Vanuatu, on February 16, 2021, Ocea ...

. She made her individual debut at the

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in 2022 in the

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. A couple of weeks later, Connolly was part of the Australian sprint relay team which finished third in the

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at the

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. Connolly was a member of the relay teams that broke the Australian 4 × 100 m record three times in 2024: first in March at the

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; then in May in the heats of the World Relay Championships in the

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, Nassau,

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; and then in July at the London Diamond Leagues Athletics Meet where they ran 42.48 seconds. She was Oceania 100 m champion in 2024 and competed in the individual

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and the

races at the

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held in Paris.

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Ella Connolly
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