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{{short description|British track-and-field athlete}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]]|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres hurdles|400 m hurdles]]}}
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{{MedalBronze |[[1993 World Championships in Athletics|1993 Stuttgart]]|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m relay]]}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1994 Goodwill Games|1994 Saint Petersburg]]|400 m hurdles}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1994 World Cup in Athletics|1994 London]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalGold|[[1994 World Cup in Athletics|1994 London]]|4 × 400 m relay}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1989 IAAF World Cup|1989 Barcelona]]|400 m hurdles}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1994 European Championships in Athletics|1994 Helsinki]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1990 European Championships in Athletics|1990 Split]]|4 × 400 m relay}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Cup (athletics)|European Cup]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1993 European Cup in Athletics|1993 Rome]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalGold|[[1994 European Cup in Athletics|1994 Birmingham]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalGold|[[1996 European Cup in Athletics|1996 Madrid]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalGold|[[1997 European Cup in Athletics|1997 Munich]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1989 European Cup in Athletics|1989 Gateshead]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1991 European Cup in Athletics|1991 Frankfurt]]|400 m hurdles}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1989 European Indoor Athletics Championships|1989 The Hague]]|400 m}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1986 Commonwealth Games|1986 Edinburgh]]|100 m hurdles}}
{{MedalGold|[[1990 Commonwealth Games|1990 Auckland]]|400 m hurdles}}
{{MedalGold|[[1990 Commonwealth Games|1990 Auckland]]|4 × 400 m relay}}
{{MedalGold|[[1994 Commonwealth Games|1994 Victoria]]|400 m hurdles}}
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'''Sally Jane Janet Gunnell''', [[OBE]], [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (born 29 July 1966) is a [[Great Britain|British]] former [[Track & Field|track-and-field athlete]], who won the 1992 [[Olympic Games|Olympic gold medal]] in the [[400 metres hurdles]]. During a 24-month period between 1992 and 1994, Gunnell won every international event open to her, claiming Olympic Games, World Championship, European Championship, Commonwealth Games, Goodwill Games, IAAF World Cup and European Cup golds in the event, and breaking the British, European and World records in it. She is the only female British athlete to have won all four 'majors'; Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles,<ref>[[Sophie Hahn]] and [[Hannah Cockroft]] have won Paralympic, World Para, European Para and Commonwealth Games gold.</ref> and was the first female 400 metres hurdler in history to win the Olympic and World titles and break the world record. Her former world record time of 52.74 secs in 1993 is still the current [[List of British records in athletics#Women|British record]]. She was named World and European Female Athlete of the Year in 1993, and was made an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in 1993 and an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1998.

==Early life==
Gunnell was born in [[Chigwell]], [[Essex]], [[England]] to Les and Rosemary Gunnell, and grew up on the family's three-hundred-acre<ref>Running Tall, Sally Gunnell and Christopher Priest, Bloomsbury, 1994, pp. 25–6</ref> farm and attended the local primary and [[West Hatch High School|West Hatch High]] schools in [[Chigwell]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==Athletics career==
Gunnell started out in [[Track and field|athletics]] with the [[Woodford Green with Essex Ladies|Essex Ladies]] club<ref>{{cite web |url=http://website.lineone.net/~wgel/history.html |title=Woodford Green Athletic Club with Essex Ladies |website=website.lineone.net |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020203052918/http://website.lineone.net/~wgel/history.html |archive-date=3 February 2002 |url-status=dead}}</ref> as an accomplished [[long jump]]er and [[heptathlon|heptathlete]], before specialising in hurdling. In 1984, she narrowly missed Olympic selection at both heptathlon, with a score of 5680 points and in the 100 metres hurdles, where she set a UK junior record of 13.30 secs.

In 1986, having won the [[AAA Championships|AAAs]] and [[UK Athletics Championships|UK titles]], Gunnell won the [[Commonwealth Games]] gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles in Edinburgh, ahead of [[Wendy Jeal]] and 1984 Olympic heptathlon champion [[Glynis Nunn]]. She would remain the UK number one in the event over the next four seasons and reach the semi-finals at the 1987 World Championships and 1988 Olympics in the event.

Gunnell first attempted the 400 m hurdles event in 1987, with a 59.9 clocking. In 1988, in her first full season at the event, she would reach the [[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Olympic final]] in Seoul. At the Olympic trials in Birmingham, she broke the UK record with 55.40. In Seoul she would improve this twice, first to 54.48 in the semis then to 54.03, to finish fifth in the final. This would remain her best time in the event for three years.

In 1989, Gunnell won the European Indoor title at 400 metres. Outdoors, she finished second in the 400 m hurdles at the European Cup behind East Germany's [[Petra Krug]], but ahead of Olympic silver medallist [[Tatyana Ledovskaya]]. In September at the [[1989 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]], she was third behind [[Sandra Farmer-Patrick]] of the US and Ledovsakya, but this time ahead of Krug. In January 1990, she defeated 1988 Olympic champion [[Debbie Flintoff-King]] to win the [[Athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth title]] in Auckland. The 1990 summer season however was disappointing, when she only finished sixth at the [[1990 European Championships in Athletics|European Championships]].

Gunnell entered into the best phase of her career in 1991, improving her own three-year-old UK record three times. In Monaco she ran 53.78, in Zurich she ran 53.62, then at the [[1991 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]] in Tokyo, she won the silver medal behind Ledovskaya with 53.16, the then third fastest time of all-time. Ledovskaya won with 53.11.

Gunnell won the [[400 m hurdles]] at the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Olympic Games]] in [[Barcelona]], running 53.23 to defeat Sandra Farmer-Patrick.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britisholympians.com/athlete.aspx?at=1462|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070907012103/http://www.britisholympians.com/athlete.aspx?at=1462|archive-date = 7 September 2007|title = Home}}</ref> She also anchored the British 4 × 400 m quartet to a bronze medal. In 1993, she reached her peak, when she set the [[List of world records in athletics|world record]] in the 400 hurdles to win [[gold medal|gold]] in the [[1993 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]] in Stuttgart, winning in 52.74, narrowly ahead of Farmer-Patrick who ran 52.79, also inside the old record.

This record was broken by [[Kim Batten]] in 1995, but is still the [[British records in athletics|British record]]. Gunnell was the first female 400 metres hurdler to have won the Olympic and World titles and broken the world record, a feat since achieved by both [[Dalilah Muhammad]] and [[Sydney McLaughlin|Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone]].

In 1994, Gunnell added the [[1994 European Championships in Athletics|European title]] to her collection, winning comfortably in 53.33. She also won the [[Athletics at the 1994 Goodwill Games|Goodwill Games]] ahead of Kim Batten, successfully defended her [[Athletics at the 1994 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth title]] and won the [[1994 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]] title in London. 1994 was her third (and final) year as the world's number one. She missed most of 1995 due to injury, an injury from which she would never fully recover. Her defence of her [[1996 Summer Olympics|Olympic title]] in [[Atlanta]] in 1996 was cut short when she pulled up injured in the semi-finals. This seemed a particularly cruel blow, as this race occurred on her 30th birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2006/12/20/essex_at_20_sally_gunnell_feature.shtml |title=Essex – Features – Essex at 20: Sally Gunnell |publisher=BBC |access-date=2016-11-24}}</ref> Also in 1996, she worked as a [[Red Cross]] [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambassador]] in [[Angola]]. In September 1997, she retired after a recurrence of an [[Achilles tendon]] injury forced her to pull out of the World Championships semi-final.

Gunnell remains the only woman to have won the [[European Championships in Athletics|European]], [[World]], [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] and [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] 400-metre hurdles titles.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/bbc_coverage/newsid_2056000/2056152.stm |title=BBC SPORT &#124; Commonwealth Games 2002 &#124; BBC Coverage &#124; Sally Gunnell |work=BBC News |date=2002-07-18 |access-date=2016-11-24}}</ref>

Gunnell is now involved as one of the ambassadors for McCain's Track & Field partnership with [[UK Athletics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mccaintrackandfield.co.uk/meet-our-athletes/elite/sally-gunnell/|title=McCain Track & Field – Meet The Athletes: Sally Gunnell|work=mccaintrackandfield.co.uk|access-date=7 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914204909/http://www.mccaintrackandfield.co.uk/meet-our-athletes/elite/sally-gunnell/|archive-date=14 September 2011}}</ref>

==Television==
Gunnell worked as a television presenter, predominantly for the [[BBC]], until 2006.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} She also co-hosted the game show ''Body Heat'' (1994–96) on [[ITV Network|ITV]] with [[Mike Smith (broadcaster)|Mike Smith]] and [[Jeremy Guscott]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Body_Heat |work= UK Game Shows |title=Body Heat |access-date= 6 November 2019}}</ref>

Gunnell was one of the four celebrity guests in the ITV's ''[[You Bet!]]'' – Series 7 (1993–94), co-winning with Michaela Strachan, donating her winnings to a charity working to find a cure for breast cancer.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}} In 1997, she was the recipient of the "big red book" on the ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This is Your Life]]'' programme.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

In summer 2006, she was a celebrity [[showjumper]] in the BBC's [[Sport Relief]] event ''[[Only Fools on Horses]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5060000/newsid_5062100/5062110.stm |title=Celebs saddle up for Sport Relief |publisher=CBBC|work=Newsround |date=8 June 2006 |access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref> She also won a ''Weakest Link'' Sporting Heroes Special, first broadcast on 25 July 2009 on BBC One.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

She took part in a celebrity version of TV show ''[[Total Wipeout]]'' which aired on 2 January 2010.<ref>{{Citation|title=Episode #2.11|date=2 January 2010|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592724/|access-date=2020-01-27}}</ref>

In 2012, Gunnell took part on ITV's ''The Cube'' and won £20,000 for her charity.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

==Recognition==
In the [[1993 New Year Honours]], Gunnell was made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) and in the [[1998 Birthday Honours]], she was made an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/06/98/queens_birthday_honours/111911.stm|title=Queens Birthday Honours &#124; Sports stars share honours|work=BBC News|date=1998-06-13|access-date=2016-11-24}}</ref> In 2011, Gunnell was appointed [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of [[West Sussex]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Tim|title=Sally Gunnell to be Queen's loyal lieutenant|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/8816657/Sally-Gunnell-to-be-Queens-loyal-lieutenant.html|access-date=11 October 2011|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=10 October 2011}}</ref>

In 2012, Gunnell was one of five Olympians chosen as part of a series body-casting artworks by [[Louise Giblin (sculptor)|Louise Giblin]] exhibited in [[London]] and copies were being sold in aid of the charity Headfirst.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.louisegiblin.co.uk/|title=Louise Giblin body cast sculptor|website=Louisegiblin.co.uk|access-date=2016-11-24}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Gunnell is married to fellow athlete Jonathan Bigg, and has three sons; Finley, Luca and Marley. She lives near [[Brighton]] in [[East Sussex]].<ref>David Morgan {{Cite web |url=http://www.sportinglife.com/olympics/best_of_british/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=others%2F00%2F08%2F22%2FOLYMPICS_Gunnell.html |title=Super Sally's Spanish Success |access-date=30 November 2017 |archive-date=11 December 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001211134300/http://www.sportinglife.com/olympics/best_of_british/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=others%2F00%2F08%2F22%2FOLYMPICS_Gunnell.html |url-status=dead }} Sporting Life (PA Sport), 11 December 2000</ref>

==National titles==
*7-times [[AAA Championships|AAAs]] 100 m hurdles champion (1986–1989, 1991–1993)
*2-time AAAs 400 m hurdles champion (1988, 1996)
*2-time [[UK Athletics Championships|UK Champion]] – 100 m hurdles (1986) 400 m hurdles (1997)
*2-time [[AAA Indoor Championships|AAAs Indoor Champion]] – 200 m (1987) 400 m (1988)

==International competitions==
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|-
!colspan="6"| Representing {{GBR2}} / {{ENG}}
|-
|1983
|[[1983 European Athletics Junior Championships|European Junior Championships]]
|[[Schwechat]], [[Austria]]
|13th
|Heptathlon
|5395
|-
|rowspan=2|1986
|[[Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
|[[Edinburgh, Scotland]]
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|100 m hurdles
|13.29
|-
|[[1986 European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]
|[[Stuttgart, West Germany]]
|17th (h)
|100 m hurdles
|[[1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles|13.22]] <small>(wind: 0.0&nbsp;m/s)</small>
|-
|1987
|[[1987 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Rome, Italy]]
|10th (sf)
|100 m hurdles
|13.06
|-
|rowspan=4|1988
|[[1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships|European Indoor Championships]]
|[[Budapest, Hungary]]
|4th
|400 m
|51.77
|-
|rowspan=3|[[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=3|[[Seoul, South Korea]]
|11th (sf)
|100 m hurdles
|13.13
|-
|5th
|400 m hurdles
|54.03
|-
|6th
|4 × 400 m
|3:26.89
|-
|rowspan=3|1989
|[[1989 European Athletics Indoor Championships|European Indoor Championships]]
|[[The Hague, Netherlands]]
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|400 m
|52.04
|-
|[[1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|[[Budapest, Hungary]]
|6th
|400 m
|52.60
|-
|[[1989 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]]
|[[Barcelona, Spain]]
| style="background:#c96;"| 3rd
|400 m hurdles
|55.25
|-
|rowspan=6|1990
|rowspan=3|[[Athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
|rowspan=3|[[Auckland]], New Zealand
| style="background:silver;"| 2nd
|100 m hurdles
|13.12
|-
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|400 m hurdles
|55.38
|-
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|4 × 400 m
|3:28.08
|-
|[[1990 European Athletics Indoor Championships|European Indoor Championships]]
|[[Glasgow, Scotland]]
|4th
|400 m
|53.38
|-
|rowspan=2|[[1990 European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Split, Yugoslavia]]
|6th
|400 m hurdles
|[[1990 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles|55.45]]
|-
| style="background:#c96;"| 3rd
|4 × 400 m
|[[1990 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay|3:24.78]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1991
|rowspan=2|[[1991 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Tokyo, Japan]]
| style="background:silver;"| 2nd
|400 m hurdles
|53.16
|-
|4th
|4 × 400 m
|3:22.01
|-
|rowspan=2|1992
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Barcelona, Spain]]
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|400 m hurdles
|53.23
|-
| style="background:#c96;"| 3rd
|4 × 400 m
|3:24.23
|-
|rowspan=2|1993
|rowspan=2|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Stuttgart, Germany]]
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|400 m hurdles
|52.74
|-
| style="background:#c96;"| 3rd
|4 × 400 m
|3:23.41
|-
|rowspan=6|1994
|rowspan=2|[[1994 European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Helsinki, Finland]]
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|400 m hurdles
|[[1994 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles|53.33]]
|-
|4th
|4 × 400 m
|[[1994 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay|3:24.14]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 1994 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Victoria, Canada]]
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|400 m hurdles
|54.51
|-
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|4 × 400 m
|3:27.06
|-
|rowspan=2|[[1994 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]]
|rowspan=2|[[London, England]]
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|400 m hurdles
|54.80
|-
| style="background:gold;"| 1st
|4 × 400 m
|3:27.36
|-
||1996
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Atlanta, United States]]
|[[Athletics abbreviations#Circumstances and conditions|DNF]] (sf)
|400 m hurdles
|55.29<small> (heat)</small>
|-
|rowspan=3|1997
|rowspan=2|[[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Paris, France]]
|13th (h)
|400 m
|53.05
|-
|6th
|4 × 400 m
|3:32.25
|-
|[[1997 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Athens, Greece]]
|[[Athletics abbreviations#Circumstances and conditions|DNS]] (sf)
|400 m hurdles
|54.53 <small>(heat)</small>
|-
!colspan=6|<small>''' (#) Indicates overall position in qualifying heats (h) or semifinals (sf)'''</small>
|}
<small>'''Note: '''Represented Great Britain in all events excluding the Commonwealth Games, where she represented England and the 1989 World Cup, where she represented Europe.</small>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.sallygunnell.com Sally Gunnell Official Website]
* {{IMDb name|1109345}}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.mtc-uk.com/talent/sally-gunnell/ |title=Sally Gunnell OBE – MTC |website=Mtc-uk.com |date=1994-06-26 |access-date=2016-11-24}}

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