Irie Hill
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 January 1969 Germany | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | pole vault | ||||||||||||||
| Club | LG Regensburg | ||||||||||||||
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Irie Hill (born 16 January 1969) is an English female athlete who competes in the pole vault event. She has a personal best performance of 4.20 metres.[1]
Biography
Hill was born in Germany but moved to England in 1996 and became a British citizen in 1999. She only began vaulting relatively late in life at the age of 26.[2] Hill finished second behind Janine Whitlock in the pole vault event at the 1999 AAA Championships.[3]
Hill became the British pole vault champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 2002 AAA Championships.[4][5] Shortly afterwards Hill represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester,[6] winning a bronze medal.[7]
Hill has also gone on to win numerous World and European Masters titles including achieving a world W50 record in the pole vault of 3.51m while winning the 2019 World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in Torun, Poland.[8] This is in addition to the world W45 pole vault record of 3.76m set by Hill on 3 July 2015 in Regensburg, Germany.
References
- ^ "Athlete Profile". Power of 10.
- ^ "Hill invests hope in a higher vault". The Independent. 27 July 2002.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Weekend results - Athletics". The Scotsman. 15 July 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Manchester 2002 Team". Team England. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "Athlete Profile". World Athletics.
- ^ "Irie Hill wins W50 pole vault". Athletics Weekly. 31 March 2019.