Sally Jane Janet Gunnell, OBE (born July 29, 1966 in Chigwell, Essex, England) was a sprint and hurdling athlete and worked mainly as a television presenter predominantly for the BBC until January 2006.

Gunnell started out in athletics as an accomplished long jumper and pentathlete before turning to the sprints and hurdling and is the only woman to have held the European, World, Commonwealth and Olympic 400 metre hurdles titles at the same time.

Gunnell won the 400m hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. She set the world record in the same event when she won gold in the 1993 World Championships. This record was broken by Kim Batten in 1995. Her defence of her Olympic title in Atlanta in 1996 was cut short as she pulled up in one of her races, injured.

In 1996 Sally worked as a Red Cross ambassador in Angola. In September 1997 Sally retired after a recurrence of an achilles tendon injury.

In 1998 Sally was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

She is married to fellow athlete Jonathan Bigg and has two children.

1966 births | Living people | English athletes | Hurdlers | Athletes at the 1992 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 1996 Summer Olympics | English television presenters | Natives of Essex | Officers of the Order of the British Empire | Olympic competitors for Great Britain | Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year award winner

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