Becky Lyne is a former international middle-distance runner from Great Britain, who won a bronze medal in the 800 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.
10 Facts About Becky Lyne
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Becky Lyne attended Nether Green Junior School where she found her love for running as part of the cross-country team.
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Becky Lyne was a pupil at Tapton School, which was attended by the former Olympic middle-distance champion Sebastian Coe.
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Becky Lyne completed a second degree in Spanish at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States in 2003.
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Becky Lyne joined the Hallamshire Harriers Athletics Club in 1994 and success at city and county level soon followed, which eventually led to her first international vest for England in 1997 over 1,500m at the Home Countries International.
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Becky Lyne enjoyed a successful junior athletics career under the tutelage of Gordon Surtees, which culminated in winning the 800 metres at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
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Becky Lyne made her first senior international appearance at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where she was knocked out in the heats of the 800 metres.
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Becky Lyne suffered a series of injuries over the following two seasons, but nevertheless managed to achieve the B-standard qualifying time for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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Becky Lyne continued to pursue a comeback in subsequent years, spending winters training at altitude in Kenya with the group of friend and rival Janeth Jepkosgei, but was unable to find any consistency and chose to officially retire from the sport in 2012.
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Thanks to her winters spent training there, Becky Lyne maintains close links to Kenya through a number of school twinnings she established between British and Kenyan schools.