{{short description|English hammer thrower}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Zoe Derham | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = hammer throw | club = Birchfield Harriers | birth_date = 24 November 1980 | birth_place = Bristol, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =178 cm | weight =103 kg | pb = | medaltemplates= }}
'''Zoe Lianne Derham''' (born 24 November 1980) is an English hammer thrower who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
== Biography == Derham competed at the European U23 Championships and during the same month finished third behind Lorraine Shaw in the hammer throw event at the 2001 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/20010716/472/0030 |title=Athletics |work=The Scotsman |date=16 July 2001 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=4 April 2025}}</ref>
Derham represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, finishing in eighth place in the hammer throw<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/manchester-2002/athletes |title=Manchester 2002 Team |website=Team England |access-date=4 April 2025 }}</ref> and four years later represented the England team again at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/melbourne-2006/athletes |title=Melbourne 2006 Team |website=Team England |access-date=4 April 2025 }}</ref>
Derham became the British hammer throw champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 2007 British Athletics Championships.<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=4 April 2025}}</ref>
Derham retained her British title<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=4 April 2025 }}</ref> an then at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Derham represented Great Britain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/115108 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> Her personal best throw is 68.63 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Loughborough. This places her fourth on the British all-time list, behind Lorraine Shaw,<ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/uk/wf99.htm UK All-Time Lists: Women - Throws] - GBR Athletics</ref> who is also her coach.<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8188200.stm Derham preparation hit by illness ]. BBC Sport (6 August 2009). Retrieved on 2009-08-06.</ref>
A third consecutive British title was won in 2009, in addition to appearing at the World Championships and the following year Derham won her fourth and last British title before participating in the Women's hammer throw event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
==International competitions== {| {{AchievementTable}} |- !colspan="5"|Representing {{GBR2}} and {{ENG}} |- |1999 |European Junior Championships |Riga, Latvia |20th (q) |49.47 m<ref>[http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/EUJC/EUJC1999.html#21090 wjah.co.uk]</ref> |- |2001 |European U23 Championships |Amsterdam, Netherlands |22nd (q) |55.53 m<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eaa-athletics.ch/ech-u23-2001/results/WT4MXXH202.htm |title=eaa-athletics.ch |access-date=4 May 2013 |archive-date=10 November 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041110214826/http://www.eaa-athletics.ch/ech-u23-2001/results/WT4MXXH202.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- |2002 |Commonwealth Games |Manchester, United Kingdom |8th |59.57 m |- |2005 |World Student Games |İzmir, Turkey |11th |62.54 m |- |rowspan=2|2006 |Commonwealth Games |Melbourne, Australia |5th |61.92 m |- |European Championships |Gothenburg, Sweden |39th (q) |56.94 m |- |2007 |World Student Games |Bangkok, Thailand |14th |59.14 m |- |2008 |Olympic Games |Beijing, China |35th (q) |64.74 m |- |2009 |World Championships |Berlin, Germany |— |NM |- |2010 |Commonwealth Games |Delhi, India |bgcolor=cc966|3rd |64.04 m |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{World Athletics}} * {{Team GB}} * {{Olympics.com profile|zoe-derham}} * {{SR/Olympics|de/zoe-derham-1}} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420075301/http://www.zoederham.co.uk/ |date=20 April 2012 |title=Official web site}} * {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20121230180329/http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Participants/Participants?ID=103858 |date=30 December 2012 |title=Zoe Lianne DERHAM at the 2006 Commonwealth Games}}
{{British Athletics Championships women's hammer throw champions}} {{authority control}}
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