Lynsey Sharp is the 2012 European champion and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
16 Facts About Lynsey Sharp
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Lynsey Sharp won a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Lynsey Sharp was born in Dumfries, Scotland and lived her early life in nearby Lochmaben.
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Lynsey Sharp is the daughter of former Scottish athletes Cameron Sharp and Carol Sharp.
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Lynsey Sharp's father won a 1982 European silver medal in the 200 m and competed at the 1980 Olympic Games, while her mother has an 800 m personal best of 2:02.91 and competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.
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Lynsey Sharp graduated with a 2:1 in Law from Edinburgh Napier University in 2012 a few weeks before competing in the London Olympics.
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Lynsey Sharp has said she was inspired to study law after her father fought a medical negligence case following permanent injuries he sustained in a road crash.
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Lynsey Sharp is a fan of Scottish Premiership side Rangers.
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Lynsey Sharp only had the B standard, while four other British women had the A standard: an injured Jenny Meadows and three athletes who Lynsey Sharp had defeated at the Olympic trials.
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In July 2014, Lynsey Sharp ran under two minutes in the 800 m for the first time, running 1:59.67 at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.
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The night before the Commonwealth 800 m final, Lynsey Sharp suffered stomach cramps and sickness and had to be placed on a drip at the Poly-clinic at the Athletes' Village until 5:30 am on the morning of the race.
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Lynsey Sharp finished sixth in the 800 metres final at the 2016 Rio Olympics, improving her own Scottish record to 1:57.69.
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Lynsey Sharp has since clarified her comments, in a now-deleted Twitter post:.
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Lynsey Sharp is someone who I talk to regularly on the circuit.
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Lynsey Sharp ran 1:58.80 in the 800 metres at the Athletissima Lausanne Diamond League race in July 2017, then later in the month ran a season's best of 1:58.01 at the Herculis Monaco Diamond League.
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At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Lynsey Sharp was eliminated in the heats of the 800 m, running 2:01.63.