BEESLEY Meghan

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2019	Doha, QAT	SF (56.89)
2017	London, GBR	SF (56.61)
2015	Beijing, CHN	SF (55.41)
2013	Moscow, RUS	SF (54.97)

European Championships

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2018	Berlin, GER	3rd (55.31)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	400m Hurdles
2021	1 x 7th
2019	2 x 6th, 1 x 8th
2018	1 x 3rd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2018	400m Hurdles	Birmingham, GBR	55.83
6	2019	400m Hurdles	London, GBR	55.20
6	2019	400m Hurdles	Doha, QAT	56.01
7	2021	400m Hurdles	Gateshead, GBR	57.04
8	2019	400m Hurdles	Oslo, NOR	57.13

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2018	400m Hurdles	World Challenge	Turku, FIN	56.42
3	2018	400m Hurdles	World Challenge	Zagreb, CRO	56.43

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	4 x 400m
2018	Birmingham, GBR	3rd (3:29.38)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Spending time with her dog. (Instagram profile, 01 Apr 2020)

Engineer

Mathematics - Loughborough University, Great Britain

English

Birchfield Harriers [Birmingham, GBR]

2010 for Great Britain, Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India (meghanbeesley.net, 08 Sep 2015)

In July 2014 she pulled out of a Diamond League meet in Glasgow, Scotland, with a foot problem. She discovered the injury was a stress fracture, meaning she missed the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, and she had to end her season early. (Twitter profile, 10 Jul 2014; Facebook page, 05 Feb 2016)

She suffered a quadricep tear in 2010. She also suffered from a pelvic problem the same year. (meghanbeesley.net, 30 Jun 2010; tamworthherald.co.uk, 24 Jun 2010)

Her 2009 season was cut short due to injury. (spar.co.uk, 31 Dec 2009)

She took up athletics in 2000 at age 10 in Tamworth, England. Prior to athletics she had been dancing since age four, and practised tap and modern dance until age 15. She competed in the heptathlon at school national level in England. (meghanbeesley.net, 08 Sep 2015; stellarathletics.co.uk, 01 Jan 2015; thepowerof10.info, 02 Oct 2019)

She won a competition to receive a year's free membership at a local track in Tamworth, England. (meghanbeesley.net, 08 Sep 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (lboro.ac.uk, 13 May 2020)

US sprinter Allyson Felix. (spar.co.uk, 31 Dec 2009)

"Don't worry that your best won't be good enough. Have a go at everything, don't quit, try your hardest and you will have no regrets." (sportsforschools.org, 01 Jun 2015)

She won the 2013 President Award for best individual club performance at the Birchfield Harriers club in England. (birchfieldharriers.net, 11 Nov 2013)

In 2013 she was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Tamworth Herald newspaper in England. (tamworthherald.co.uk, 02 Jan 2014)

She won the SPAR Outstanding Athlete of the Year Award in 2007. (spar.co.uk, 31 Dec 2009)