Amber Anning

Amber Anning (born 18 November 2000) 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.

Career Anning has competed for Brighton & Hove Athletic Club since she was nine years old. From the age of 16, until his unexpected death in 2021, she was coached by Lloyd Cowan. 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.

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. where she was coached by Dennis Shaver.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Anning became a fully professional athlete in 2024 after graduating from Arkansas. and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics as a result. She was part of the mixed 4 × 400 team which won a bronze medal in a new national record of 3:08.01. 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. Later in the championships she was part of the British 4 × 400 metres relay team which won a silver medal. Later that month at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Anning became the first British woman to win the 400 metres indoor title.

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. She was selected as part of the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

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