Jade Lally

Jade Lally

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	(1987-03-30) 30 March 1987 Tooting, England
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Website	jadelally.com
Sport
Country	England
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Discus
Club	Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers
Medal record Representing  England Women's Discus Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Discus Throw
Updated on 3 October 2014.

Jade Louise Lally (née Nicholls, born 30 March 1987) is a British athlete. She won a bronze medal for England in the women's discus at the 2014 Commonwealth Games,^[2] and represented Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Career

Born in Tooting, Greater London, Lally began athletics as a high jumper.^[3] This began her interest in the sport and led to her joining her first club, Hercules Wimbledon AC, where she took up discus throwing.^[4] At the English Schools' Athletics Championships, she finished sixth in 2004,^[5] and seventh in 2005,^[6] before going on to win the 2006 AAA Junior Championships title, with a distance of 46.60.^[7]

Lally won a bronze medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships in the discus throw, with a throw of 54.44 metres.^[8][9] She won the 2010 British Championships.^[10] went on to represent England at that years Commonwealth Games, where she finished sixth in the discus throw.^[11] In 2011, she won both the British and English Championships.^[12][13]

Lally retained her English in 2012,^[14] and went on to compete at that years European Championships, being knocked out in the discus throw competition in qualifying after her second-worst performance of the year, finishing 22nd.^[15] This was her first senior British international competition. She was overlooked for selection to go to what would have been a home Olympics despite achieving two B standard qualifying marks and finishing in the top two at the British Championships.^[16][17]

At the European Team Championships, Lally finished sixth in 2013,^[18] and eighth in 2014.^[19] before going on to win a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in the discus throw, with a throw of 60.48 metres.^[20][21][22]

After winning her fourth British and English Championship titles in 2015,^[23][24] Lally broke the English discus record with a throw of 64.22 metres at the Auckland Track Challenge on 25 February 2016,^[25][26] then improved it to 65.10 metres at the New South Wales Championships on 27 February 2016.^[27][28] This performance ranks her second on the British all-time list behind Scotland's Meg Ritchie. She also holds the British indoor discus throw record holder, with a mark of 58.97 metres from the World Indoor Throws in Vaxjo, Sweden in 2013.^[20] and holds two club records in Under 23 and Senior discus at Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers.^[29]

Lally won the 2016 British title, finished seventh in the final at the 2016 European Athletics Championships, with a throw of 60.29 metres, and went on to finish 28th overall in the qualifying round at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with a throw of 54.06m. She won her sixth British title in 2017, and finished 18th overall in qualifying at the 2017 World Championships in London, throwing 57.71m. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games she threw 53.97m to finish seventh.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Great Britain /  England
2009	European Under 23 Championships	Kaunas, Lithuania	3rd	54.44 m
2010	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	6th	57.62 m
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	22nd (q)	51.75 m
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	3rd	60.48 m
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	7th	60.29 m
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	28th (q)	54.06 m
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	18th (q)	57.71 m
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	7th	53.97 m
(q) Indicates overall position in qualifying round

References

• Jade Lally at Power of 10