Julie Crane
{{Short description|British athlete (born 1976)}}
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| nationality = British (Welsh)
| sport = Athletics
| event = high jump
| club = Sale Harriers
| birth_date = 26 September 1976
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{{MedalSport | Athletics}}
{{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{Medal|Silver|2006 Melbourne|high jump|Heptathlon]]}}
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Julie Crane (born 26 September 1976) is a British and Welsh former track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump.{{cite web |author=Julie Crane |url=http://www.all-athletics.com/node/121196 |title=Profile of Julie CRANE |publisher=All-Athletics.com |access-date=2016-08-20 |archive-date=28 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228034802/http://www.all-athletics.com/node/121196 |url-status=dead }} She won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/commonwealth_games/4836952.stm |title=BBC SPORT | Commonwealth Games | Crane silver a slim consolation |publisher=BBC News |date=2006-03-23 |access-date=2016-08-20}}
Biography
Crane was born in Nottingham but represented Wales and Sale Harriers.{{cite news|author=Michael Phillips |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jul/11/olympicgames2008.athletics1 |title=Crane carries on jumping for her dream of the Games after car crash wrecked her Athens chances | Sport |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2016-08-20}} Crane graduated from the University of Birmingham with an MSc in Mathematical Sciences in 1999.{{cite web |url=http://www.sport.bham.ac.uk/page.aspx?sitesectionid=740&sitesectiontitle=Athletics+%26+Cross+Country+alumni |title=Athletics & Cross Country alumni |website=Sport.bham.ac.uk |date=2015-07-16 |access-date=2016-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074841/http://www.sport.bham.ac.uk/page.aspx?sitesectionid=740&sitesectiontitle=Athletics+%26+Cross+Country+alumni |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}
She won a silver medal representing Wales in the women's high jump event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She had previously represented Wales at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England.
Crane was the Welsh record holder for both indoor and outdoor high jump and represented Great Britain at the 2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump.
Crane suffered back problems following a car crash in 2004 but continued to compete and reached the podium of the British AAA Championships on four occasions in 2002,{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/20020715/375/0027 |title=Weekend results - Athletics |work=The Scotsman |date=15 July 2002 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 April 2025}} 2003,{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/20030728/590/0027 |title=Athletics |work=Aberdeen Press and Journal |date=28 July 2003 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 April 2025}} 2004 and 2006.{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=5 April 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=5 April 2025 }}
Crane announced her retirement from athletics due to injury in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/other-sport/athletics/athletics-high-jumper-julie-crane-1899264 |title=Athletics: High jumper Julie Crane forced to call time on career |date=22 September 2010 |publisher=Wales Online |access-date=2016-08-20}}{{cite news|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/other-sport/sale-star-crane-waves-goodbye-903384 |title=Sale star Crane waves goodbye |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |access-date=2016-08-20}}
References
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Category:Athletes from Nottingham
Category:English female high jumpers
Category:British female high jumpers
Category:Welsh female high jumpers
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Category:Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games