DeAnna Price
.jpg) DeAnna Price at the 2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | DeAnna Marie Price | ||||||||||||||
| Born | June 8, 1993 St. Charles, Missouri, United States[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 109 kg (240 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Southern Illinois University | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 8 September 2018 | |||||||||||||||
DeAnna Marie Price (born June 8, 1993, in Moscow Mills, Missouri) is an American track and field athlete competing primarily in the hammer throw.[3] She represented her country at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing[4] without qualifying for the final. A month before the World Championships, Price finished fourth at the 2015 Pan American Games.[5] Then two weeks later. Price picked up her first international medal by taking a silver behind Campbell at the 2015 NACAC Championships.[6] DeAnna Price placed third in hammer behind Team USA teammates Amber Campbell and Gwen Berry at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials[7] and represented the United States at 2016 Olympics, finishing eighth.[8]
Her personal best in the hammer is 78.12 m (256 ft 3 in), the (pending) American record, set at the 2018 National Championships. The throw ranks her at the #4 women's thrower in history.
While throwing for Southern Illinois University, she won back to back NCAA titles in the hammer throw. Has endured a series of injuries and only has one kidney.[9]
Competition record
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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Representing the  United States
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| 2012 | World Junior Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 18th (q) | 57.82 m |
| 2015 | Pan American Games | Toronto, Canada | 4th | 68.84 m |
| NACAC Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 2nd | 71.27 m | |
| World Championships | Beijing, China | 18th (q) | 68.69 m | |
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 8th | 70.95 m |
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 9th | 70.04 m |
| DécaNation | Angers, France | 2nd | 70.60 m | |
| 2018 | NACAC Championships | Toronto, Canada | 1st | 74.60 m |
Personal bests
Outdoor
- Shot put – 16.30 (Walnut 2015)
- Hammer throw – 78.12 (Des Moines, 2018)
- Discus - 53.46 (MVC Outdoors 2015)
Indoor
- Shot put – 16.29 (Carbondale 2014)
- Weight throw – 22.04 (Fayetteville 2015)
References
- ^ SIU profile
- ^ 2015 PanAm Games profile
- ^ DeAnna Price at World Athletics
- ^ http://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/4875/AT-HT-W-q----.SL2.pdf
- ^ http://images.toronto2015.org/system/asset_pdfs/4013/original/pan-am-games-ticket-guide-042015.pdf
- ^ http://www.athleticsnacac.org/attachments/article/413/NACAC%20Seniors%20CRC%2007-09AUG2015%20-%20FINAL%20Report.pdf
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2016/U-S--Olympic-Team-Trials---Track---Field/Results.aspx
- ^ https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016/athletics/hammer-throw-women
- ^ http://www.teamusa.org/usa-track-and-field/athletes/Deanna-Price
External links
DeAnna Price at World Athletics
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- American female hammer throwers
- Living people
- People from St. Charles, Missouri
- 1993 births
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for the United States
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
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