Sophie McKinna
Sophie McKinna (born 31 August 1994) is a Norfolk born, Great British Olympic athlete specialising in the shot put . She won silver medals at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics|2011 World Youth Championships and 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships|2013 European Junior Championships . She became the 2019 British Indoor and Outdoor Champion. Her indoor personal best is 18.82 metres (Birmingham 2022). At the 2019 World Championships in Doha she threw a new outdoor personal best of 18.61m to qualify for the final. By throwing over the 18.50m required she has now also qualified for the Tokyo  2020|Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Sophie must finish in the top two at the British Outdoor Championships to be selected for the games. In 2020 she became a double List of British champions in shot put|British champion when successfully defending her title and winning the shot put event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships with a throw of 17.88 metres. She is the granddaughter of the former Norwich City footballer and manager Dave Stringer. External links. Category:1994 births Category:Living people Category:English female shot putters Category:British female shot putters Category:Olympic athletes of Great Britain Category:Athletes (track and  field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for England Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Category:British Athletics Championships winners Category:Sportspeople from Great Yarmouth