Stephanie Ratcliffe
{{Short description|Australian hammer thrower (born 2000)}}
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Stephanie Ratcliffe (born 29 December 2000) is an Australian hammer thrower. She won the 2023 and 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships.{{cite web|title= Stephanie Ratcliffe|website=World Athletics|accessdate=9 July 2024|url= https://worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/stephanie-ratcliffe-14690008}}
Early life
From Melbourne, she started athletics when she was five years-old. She attended Doncaster Secondary College. In 2019 she won the Australian U20 hammer throw title. Later that year, she began a scholarship at Harvard University. However, she returned to Australia at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and studied remotely for 18 months.{{cite web|url= https://www.athletics.com.au/world-champs-athlete-profiles/stephanieratcliffe/|website=Athletics.com.au|accessdate=9 July 2024|title=Stephanie Ratcliffe}}{{cite web|url= https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/localsportsstars/stephanie-ratcliffe-looks-to-senior-competition-after-state-hammer-throw-title/news-story/bb173bc66916f01a538820f319ddc50e?amp|title= Hammer throwing star looks to national titles after state success|date=5 April 2018|website=Herald Sun|accessdate=9 July 2024}}
Career
She represented Australia in senior competition at the Oceania Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022.{{cite web|url= https://www.nine.com.au/sport/athletics/athletics-2023-australian-hammer-throw-record-breaker-stephanie-ratcliffe-love-of-an-adrenaline-rush-exclusive-20230530-p5j5a8.html|website=Nine.com|accessdate=9 July 2024|title= How 'geed up' Aussie Harvard student broke national record|date=29 May 2023|first=Zachary |last=Gates}}
She set an Australian national record in the hammer throw in May 2023 at the East Regional Conference Final with a collegiate-leading mark of 73.11 metres, breaking the Australian record of Bronwyn Eagles set in 2003 by two metres.{{cite web|url=https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/ncaa-womens-hammer-ratcliffe-calm-amid-sturm-drang/|website=Track and Field News|accessdate=9 July 2024|title= NCAA Women's Hammer — Ratcliffe Calm Amid Sturm & Drang|date=July 2023|first=Dave|last=Johnson}}{{cite web|url= https://www.sportforall.com.au/stephanie-ratcliffe-shatters-australian-record-in-hammer-throw-securing-her-spot-in-ncaa-finals/|website=Sportforall|accessdate=9 July 2024|title= RATCLIFFE SHATTERS AUSTRALIAN RECORD IN HAMMER THROW}} She won the 2023 NCAA Division 1 Outdoor title in Austin, Texas in June 2023 with a new national record of 73.63 metres. {{cite web|title= Stephanie Ratcliffe Wins Women's Hammer, Gives Harvard Sweep At NCAA Champs |date=8 June 2023|website=Flotrack|accessdate=9 July 2024|url=https://www.flotrack.org/articles/11039100-stephanie-ratcliffe-wins-womens-hammer-gives-harvard-sweep-at-ncaa-champs}} In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. {{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7138987?eventId=10229532|website=World Athletics|title= World Athletics Championships, Budapest 2023 |date=19 August 2023|accessdate=9 July 2024}}
After transferring to the University of Georgia, she was runner-up at the SEC Championships in May 2024.{{cite web|url= https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=videos&video_id=391692|website=Runnerspace|accessdate=9 July 2024|title= STEPHANIE RATCLIFFE 2ND PLACE WOMEN'S HAMMER THROW - SEC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024|date=9 May 2024}} She competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics.{{cite web|url= https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5836/women-s-hammer-throw-results-paris-olympic-games-2024-athletics |website=Watch Athletics|accessdate=28 December 2024|title=Women's Hammer Throw Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics|date=6 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/australia-take-second-largest-ever-team-to-paris-olympics-1039989310/|website=Athletics Weekly|accessdate=9 July 2024|title= Australia take second largest ever team to Paris Olympics|first= Tim |last=Adams |date= July 8, 2024}}
She threw 71.37 metres to win the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2025, competing for the University of Georgia.{{cite web|url= https://www.flotrack.org/articles/14288857-ncaa-womens-di-track-and-field-championships-2025-results-scores|website=Flotrack|accessdate=13 June 2025|title= NCAA Women's DI Track and Field Championships 2025 Results & Scores|date=12 June 2025}}{{cite web|url= https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Sports/wireStory/georgia-women-team-lead-outdoor-track-field-championships-122803694|website=abcnews|access-date=13 June 2025|title= Georgia women take the team lead at the outdoor track and field championships|date=12 June 2025}}
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Category:Australian female hammer throwers
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen
Category:Athletes from Melbourne
Category:Georgia Bulldogs women's track and field athletes
Category:Harvard Crimson women's track and field athletes
Category:NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics