Angie Petty

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Angie Petty
Personal information
Birth name Angela Kate Smit
Full name Angela Kate Petty
Nickname(s) Angie
Nationality New Zealander
Born (1991-08-16) 16 August 1991 (age 32)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 800 m
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  New Zealand
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2015 Gwangju 800 m

Angela Kate "Angie" Petty (née Smit; born 16 August 1991) is a New Zealand middle distance athlete.[1]

Biography

Born in Christchurch in 1991,[2] she was educated at Rangiora High School.[3] In 2007 she won the New Zealand secondary schools 800 m title, clocking 2:11.42.[3]

The following year Petty represented New Zealand in the 800 m at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland,[4] finishing fourth in her semi-final in a time of 2:08.73,[1] and she successfully defended her national schools 800 m title.[5] At the Athletics Canterbury Awards in 2010, she was co-winner with Tom Walsh of the junior athlete of the year award.[6]

She competed in the 800 m at the 2010 World Junior Championships, where she was again eliminated in the semi-finals, finishing in 2:05.51.[1]

At the 2012 New Zealand championships, she won the 800 m title and was second in both the 400 m and 1500 m. In July that year, she ran the 800 m in 2:00.67 at a meet in Heusden, Belgium, just failing to qualify for the New Zealand team for the 2012 Olympics.[7]

Petty and Walsh were joint winners of Athletics Canterbury's athlete of the year award in 2013.[8] In July 2013, she ran a personal best of 2:00.03 for 800 m in finishing fourth at the World University Games in Kazan,[9] and backed it up two weeks later with 2:00.42 to finish fifth in the Diamond League meet in London.[10] At the World Athletics Championships in Moscow the following month, she clocked 2:00.60 in finishing fourth in her 800 m heat and did not progress further.[11]

Petty represented New Zealand in the 800 m at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, finishing fifth in the final in a time of 2.01:94.[12]

Personal bests

Event Time Venue Date
400 m 54.39[13] Timaru, New Zealand 2 March 2014
600 m 1:26.72[1] Liège, Belgium 5 July 2012
800 m 1:59.06[13][1] Gwangju, South Korea 10 July 2015
1000 m 2:37.82[13][1] Chiba, Japan 15 August 2015
1500 m 4:08.54[13][1] Leixlip, Ireland 13 June 2015
Mile 4:43.66[13] Wanganui, New Zealand 20 January 2014

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Angela Smit Petty profile at IAAF (July 2008 – March 2015
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  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Athletics New Zealand Rankings: Angela Petty
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