Meghan Beesley (born 15 November 1989) is an English

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

athlete specialising in the

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once ...

. She competed at the 2013 World Championships narrowly missing the final. Earlier in her career, she also competed in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...

. Beesley broke the world record for the rarely contested straight 200 metres hurdles by 0.69 seconds at the 2014

Great City Games The Great Manchester Run (styled as the ''Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run'' for sponsorship purposes from 2017) is an annual run through Greater Manchester (namely Manchester, Trafford and Salford). It has consisted of a 10k run since it wa ...

in Manchester.

Competition record

Personal bests

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ...

– 23.53 (Birmingham 2015) *

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is on ...

– 52.79 (La Chaux-de-Fonds 2011) *

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 ...

– 13.21 (Loughborough 2015) *

– 54.52 (Beijing 2015) Indoor *

– 23.56 (Birmingham, UK 2018) *

– 52.80 (Vienna 2013)

References

1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Blackpool English female hurdlers British female hurdlers Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade bronze medalists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists British Athletics Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Great Britain Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games {{England-athletics-bio-stub