Laura Whittingham

{{Short description|English female athlete}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Laura Whittingham | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = javelin throw | club = Sale Harriers Manchester<br>Loughborough Students | birth_date = 6 June 1986 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | pb = }}

'''Laura Whittingham''' (born 6 June 1986) is an English athlete who competes in the javelin. She has a personal best distance of 60.68 metres.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/laura-whittingham-238466|title=Athlete Profile|website=World Athletics}}</ref>

== Biography == Whittingham represented England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/delhi-2010/athletes |title=Delhi 2010 Team |website=Team England |access-date=6 April 2025 }}</ref> just missing a bronze medal by finishing 4th.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/commonwealth_games/delhi_2010/9049658.stm|title=Commonwealth Games Results|website=BBC Sport|date=30 September 2010 }}</ref>

She has won three British titles in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and has reached 3rd place on the British all time rankings with the new specification javelin which was introduced in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=20381|title=Athlete Profile|website=Power of 10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/rankings/rankinglist.aspx?event=JT600&agegroup=ALL&sex=W&alltime=y|title=All time rankings|website=Power of 10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/49466942|title=British Championships|website=BBC Sport|date=25 August 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref>

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{{British Athletics Championships women's javelin throw champions}} {{Authority control}}

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