{{Short description|English sprinter (born 2000)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Amber Anning | image = Amber Anning (GBR) 2023.jpg | alt = Amber Worlds Relay Leg 2 Budapest 2023.jpg | caption = Anning at the 2023 World Athletics Championships | citizenship = British | birth_date = {{birth date and age|2000|11|18|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | education = {{flatlist|*Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College *Louisiana State University *University of Arkansas }} | height = | weight = | module = <!-- Sport --> | country = Great Britain | sport = Athletics | position = | club = Brighton & Hove AC | collegeteam = {{flatlist| *LSU Tigers *Arkansas Razorbacks}} | module2 = <!-- Achievements and titles --> | pb = '''200 m''': 22.60 (Fayetteville, 2024)<br>'''400 m:''' 49.29 NR (Paris, 2024) | coach = Chris Johnson since 2022 | worlds = 2023 | regionals = 2019 Indoor | nationals = | olympics = 2024 | commonwealth = | highestranking = | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}} }} {{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}} {{Medal|Bronze|2024 Paris|4 × 400 m relay}} {{Medal|Bronze|2024 Paris|4 × 400 m mixed}} {{MedalCompetition|World Athletics Championships}} {{MedalBronze|2023 Budapest|4 × 400 metres relay}} {{MedalCompetition|World Athletics Indoor Championships}} {{MedalGold|2025 Nanjing|400 metres}} {{MedalCompetition|European Athletics Indoor Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2019 Glasgow|4 × 400 metres relay}} {{MedalSilver|2025 Apeldoorn|4 × 400 metres relay}} {{MedalCompetition|European Athletics U20 Championships}} {{MedalGold|2019 Borås|4 × 400 metres relay}} {{MedalSilver|2019 Borås|400 metres}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Youth Games}} {{MedalSilver|2017 Nassau| 4 × 400 metres relay}} {{MedalBronze|2017 Nassau|400 metres}} }}
'''Amber Anning''' (born 18 November 2000)<ref name="arkansas"> [https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/roster/amber-anning/ 'Amber Anning']. Arkansas Razorbacks, undated. Retrieved 22 March 2025</ref> is an English sprinter. A double Olympic medalist, she is the 2025 World Athletics Indoor champion over 400 metres. She holds the British record for 400 metres, 49.29 seconds, which she recorded when finishing fifth in the women's 400 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
She won two bronze medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay and mixed 4 × 400 metres relay.
Anning is the British record holder indoors over 200 m and was part of British teams that won medals in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay events at the 2019 European Indoor Championships and 2023 World Championship. She also won medals at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games and the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships. Anning competed in college athletics for LSU Tigers and Arkansas Razorbacks.
==Personal life== Anning was born in London the eldest of three sisters.<ref name="arkansas"/> She spent her early years in Hove and Australia. As a child, she participated in netball, swimming and athletics before choosing to specialise in the latter.
She attended Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College.<ref name="arkansas"/> In 2020, Anning began studying at Louisiana State University in the United States on a scholarship. In 2022, she transferred to the University of Arkansas.<ref name="Telegraph" /> She graduated in 2024 with a degree in Advertising and Public Relations with minors in Journalism, Strategic Media and Psychology.<ref name="AK24">{{cite web| url=https://www.uatrav.com/sports/article_685fa2ba-e0b4-11ee-93e8-ef0ca671c0cf.html| title=Amber Anning prepares for professional debut| publisher=The Arkansas Traveler| date=13 March 2024| accessdate=4 July 2024}}</ref>
==Career== Anning has competed for Brighton & Hove Athletic Club since she was nine years old.<ref name=England>{{cite web|url=https://www.englandathletics.org/news/three-medals-for-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-on-the-final-day-at-the-world-championships/|title=Three medals for Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the final day at the World Championships|publisher=England Athletics|date=28 August 2023|accessdate=30 August 2023}}</ref> From the age of 16, until his unexpected death in 2021, she was coached by Lloyd Cowan.<ref name="arkansas"/><ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2020/07/23/amber-annings-move-united-states-will-boost-tokyo-olympics-credentials/|title=Amber Anning's move to United States will boost her Tokyo Olympics credentials|work=The Daily Telegraph|url-access=subscription| date=23 July 2023|accessdate=30 August 2023}}</ref> Anning broke the British under-15 300 metres record running 38.73 seconds and was the first, and to date, the first British under-15 to run sub 39 seconds. The previous record holder was Dina Asher-Smith.<ref name=Telegraph/>
At the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, Anning finished third in the 400 metres event and was part of the England team that finished second in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay. She missed the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships due to injury.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sussexathletics.net/news/athlete-spotlight-amber-anning/|title=ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT – AMBER ANNING|publisher=Sussex Athletics|date=8 April 2020|accessdate=30 August 2023}}</ref>
Aged 17, she won a bronze medal over 200 m at the British Indoor Championships. A year later, at 18, she came second over 400 m at the British Indoor Championships, running 53s dead to break the nearly 50-year-old British U20 Indoor record of Marilyn Neufville. With this she auto-qualified for the individual 400 m and the British relay squad, which won the silver medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships.<ref name="Telegraph" /> In the same year, Anning also finished second in the 400 metres event at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships, and anchored the British team to victory in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay competition at the championships.<ref name="Telegraph" />
In 2020, she started competing in college athletics for LSU Tigers,<ref name="AW">{{cite magazine|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/interviews/meet-amber-anning-and-yusuf-bizimana-1039968498/|title=Meet Amber Anning and Yusuf Bizimana|magazine=Athletics Weekly|date=7 June 2023|accessdate=30 August 2023}}</ref> where she was coached by Dennis Shaver.<ref name="Telegraph" /> In August 2022, she transferred to Arkansas Razorbacks.<ref name="AW" />
At the 2023 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, she was part of the Arkansas relay team that set the fastest women's indoor 4 × 400 metres relay time in history of 3:21.75. Anning's time on the first leg was the fifth fastest ever.<ref name="AW" /> Anning was a member of the British team that finished third in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. It was her first senior World Championships, and she ran the second leg of the race splitting 49.70 seconds in the heat and 49.82 seconds in the final.<ref name=England/>
In January 2024, Anning broke Katharine Merry's 25-year-old 200 m British Indoor record, clocking 22.60 at Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/68215538|title=Amber Anning: Paris 2024 Olympics would be 'icing on cake' for record-breaking Team GB sprinter|work=BBC Sport|date=6 February 2024|accessdate=6 February 2024}}</ref>
In March 2024, she won the 400 m at the 2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston in 50.79 seconds, leading her teammates Nickisha Pryce and Rosey Effiong to an historic podium as Arkansas became the first women's program to have a 1–2–3 finish in the 400 at the NCAA Indoor meet.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://flashresults.ncaa.com/Indoor/2024/019-2.pdf| title=NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships: Women's 400 M|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association|date=9 March 2024|access-date=3 July 2024}}</ref> The Arkansas Razorbacks, led for the first time by Head Coach, Chris 'Captain' Johnson, also won the women's team title for the second year in a row.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-03-09|title=Arkansas women's track and field wins second straight NCAA indoor title {{!}} Whole Hog Sports|url=https://www.wholehogsports.com/news/2024/mar/09/arkansas-womens-track-and-field-wins-second-straight-ncaa-indoor-title/|access-date=2024-07-08|website=www.wholehogsports.com|language=en}}</ref> In May 2024, Anning ran 49.51 seconds over 400 m at the SEC Track and Field Championships, to move to third place on the British All-Time list, behind Christine Ohuruogu and Kathy Smallwood.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.sussexathletics.net/news/an-astonishing-49-51-for-amber-anning-now-3-on-gb-400m-all-time-list/|title= AN ASTONISHING 49.51 FOR AMBER ANNING, NOW #3 ON GB 400M ALL-TIME LIST|publisher=Sussex Athletics|date=14 May 2024|accessdate=3 July 2024}}</ref> At the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships Anning won the bronze medal over 400 m, running 49.59 seconds, in an historic race in which the Razorbacks achieved a 'super sweep' of the top four places.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a61004588/2024-ncaa-outdoor-track-and-field-results/|title=2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship Results|magazine=Runner's World|date=8 June 2024|access-date=3 July 2024}}</ref> In the women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Anning, Effiong, Pryce and Kaylyn Brown set a collegiate record time of 3:17.96 to win the event for Arkansas.<ref>{{Cite web|last=AP|first=AP|date=9 June 2024|title=Arkansas wins NCAA women's outdoor track and field team title|url=https://www.espn.co.uk/college-sports/story/_/id/40308224/arkansas-wins-ncaa-women-outdoor-track-field-team-title|access-date=8 July 2024|website=ESPN}}</ref> Anning became a fully professional athlete in 2024 after graduating from Arkansas.<ref name=AK24/>
Later in 2024, Anning became the British 400 metres champion after winning the title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/WAAA200.htm |title=WAAA and National Championships Medallists - 220 yards and 200 metres |website=NUTS |date=3 August 2025 |access-date=5 August 2025}}</ref> and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics as a result.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cd1j3ddnjg2o|title=Asher-Smith reaches Olympics as young GB stars shine|publisher=BBC Sport|date=30 June 2024| access-date=3 July 2024}}</ref> She was part of the mixed 4 × 400 team which won a bronze medal in a new national record of 3:08.01.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/c6p22m323m6o|title=Great Britain win mixed 4x400m relay bronze|date=3 August 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=3 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/paris-team-gb-united-states-dutch-b2590777.html|title=Team GB secure first athletics medal in Paris in relay race thriller|work=The Independent|date=3 August 2024 |accessdate=3 August 2024}}</ref> In the individual event, she reached the final and finished fifth in 49.23 seconds, a national record and only three hundredths of a second from bronze.
At the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Anning was disqualified in the 400 m heats due to lane infringements.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Crumley |first=Euan |date=2025-03-07 |title=Agony for Amber Anning at European Indoors |url=https://athleticsweekly.com/event-reports/agony-for-amber-anning-at-european-indoors-1039997899/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250308053909/https://athleticsweekly.com/event-reports/agony-for-amber-anning-at-european-indoors-1039997899/ |archive-date=2025-03-08 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Athletics Weekly |language=en-GB}}</ref> Later in the championships she was part of the British 4 × 400 metres relay team which won a silver medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cn480j310yvo|title=GB win three silvers on final day of European Indoors|date=9 March 2025 |publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=11 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/super-silver-medals-for-mills-courtney-bryant-womens-4x400m-team-as-curtain-falls-in-apeldoorn/|title=SUPER SILVER MEDALS FOR MILLS, COURTNEY-BRYANT & BRITAIN'S WOMEN'S 4X400M TEAM AS CURTAIN|publisher=British Athletics|accessdate=11 March 2025}}</ref> Later that month at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Anning became the first British woman to win the 400 metres indoor title.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poole |first=Harry |date=2025-03-22 |title=World Athletics Indoor Championships: GB's Amber Anning wins 400m gold |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cd92wp3z0gpo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322162356/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cd92wp3z0gpo |archive-date=2025-03-22 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref>
She ran a season's best 49.75 seconds for fifth in the women's 400m at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/clyjqgz0yjxo |website=BBC Sport|accessdate=29 August 2025|date=28 August 2025|title= Hunter Bell, Asher-Smith & Burgin impress in Zurich}}</ref> She was selected as part of the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://athleticsweekly.com/news/british-team-named-for-world-champs-in-tokyo-1040007211/|website=Athletics Weekly|accessdate=26 August 2025|title= BRITISH TEAM NAMED FOR WORLD CHAMPS IN TOKYO|first=Jason|last=Henderson|date=26 August 2025}}</ref>
== Achievements == === Circuit performances === {{Grand Slam Track}}
=== Personal bests === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left !Type !Distance !Time (s) !Wind (m/s) !Venue !Date !Notes |- | rowspan="6" |Outdoor |100 metres | align="center" |11.49 | align="center" | +0.2 |Tempe, United States |19 March 2022 | |- |200 metres | align="center" |22.66 | align="center" | -0.5 |Gainesville, United States |9 May 2024 | |- |300 metres | align="center" |37.79 |{{n/a}} |Loughborough, Great Britain |1 September 2017 | |- |400 metres | align="center" |49.29 |{{n/a}} |Saint-Denis, France |9 August 2024 | align="center" |{{AthAbbr|NR|British}} |- |Long jump | align="center" |5.57 m | align="center" |0.0 |Reading, Great Britain |28 June 2015 | |- |Triple jump | align="center" |11.65 m | align="center" | -1.0 |Ashford, Great Britain |16 August 2015 | |- | rowspan="5" |Indoor |60 metres | align="center" |7.45 |{{n/a}} |Fayetteville, United States |5 February 2022 | |- |200 metres {{AthAbbr|sh}} | align="center" |22.60 |{{n/a}} |Fayetteville, United States |26 January 2024 | |{{AthAbbr|NR|British}} |- |300 metres {{AthAbbr|sh}} | align="center" |39.37 |{{n/a}} |Sheffield, Great Britain |13 February 2016 | |- |400 metres {{AthAbbr|sh}} | align="center" |50.43 |{{n/a}} |Fayetteville, United States |24 February 2024 | |- |800 metres {{AthAbbr|sh}} | align="center" |2:05.05 |{{n/a}} |Fayetteville, United States |12 January 2024 | |- ! ! colspan="6" |Team events |- | rowspan="5" |Outdoor |4 × 100 metres relay | align="center" |42.45 |{{n/a}} |Eugene, United States |6 June 2024 | |- |4 × 200 metres relay | align="center" |1:31.11 |{{n/a}} |Austin, United States |30 March 2024 | |- |4 × 400 metres relay | align="center" |3:17.96 |{{n/a}} |Eugene, United States |8 June 2024 | |- |4 × 400 metres relay mixed | align="center" |3:08.01 |{{n/a}} |Saint-Denis, France |3 August 2024 | align="center" |{{AthAbbr|NR|British}} |- |Distance medley relay | align="center" |11:02.45 |{{n/a}} |Austin, United States |25 March 2022 | |- | rowspan="2" |Indoor |4 × 400 metres relay {{AthAbbr|sh}} | align="center" |3:21.75 |{{n/a}} |Albuquerque, United States |11 March 2023 | |- |Distance medley relay {{AthAbbr|sh}} | align="center" |10:49.14 |{{n/a}} |Fayetteville, United States |17 February 2023 | |}
=== International competitions === {|{{AchievementTable|nation=GBR2|Event=yes|Result=yes|NotesOff=yes}} !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=2|2017 !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=2|Commonwealth Youth Games |rowspan=2|Nassau, Bahamas |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |400 m |53.68 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Mixed 4 × 400 m relay |3:25.45 |- !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=4|2019 !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=2|European Indoor Championships |rowspan=2|Glasgow, Great Britain |17th (h) |400 m {{AthAbbr|sh}} |53.26 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 x 400 m relay {{AthAbbr|sh}} |3:29.55 |- !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=2|European U20 Championships |rowspan=2| Borås, Sweden |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |52.18 {{AthAbbr|PB}} |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 400 m relay |3:33.07 {{AthAbbr|WU23L}} |- !scope="row"|2021 !scope="row"|European U23 Championships |Tallinn, Estonia |− |200 m |{{AthAbbr|DNS}} |- !scope="row"|2023 !scope="row"|World Championships |Budapest, Hungary |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |4 × 400 m relay |3:21.04 {{AthAbbr|SB}} |- !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=3|2024 !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=3|Olympic Games |rowspan=3|Paris, France |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |Mixed 4 × 400 m relay |3:08.01 {{AthAbbr|NR|British}} |- |5th |400 m |49.29 {{AthAbbr|NR|British}} |- |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |4 × 400 m relay |3:19.72 {{AthAbbr|NR|British}} |- !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=4|2025 !scope="rowgroup" rowspan=2|European Indoor Championships |rowspan=2|Apeldoorn, Netherlands | – |400 m |{{AthAbbr|DQ}} |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:24.89 |- !scope="rowgroup"|World Indoor Championships |Nanjing, China | bgcolor=gold | 1st |400 m |50.60 |- !scope="rowgroup"|World Championships |Tokyo, Japan |5th |400 m |49.36 {{AthAbbr|SB}} |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{World Athletics|14632781}} * {{Power of 10|206547}} * {{Team GB}} * {{Olympics.com}} * {{Instagram}}
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