NELSON Ashleigh

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	4 x 100m
2019	Doha, QAT	2nd (41.85)
2013	Moscow, RUS	3rd (42.87)

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 100m
2019	Yokohama, JPN	Heats (DNF)

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

Year	100m
2017	1 x 16th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
16	2017	100m	London, GBR	19.21

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2018	4 x 100m Relay	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	43.19
11	2018	100m	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	11.45

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

Smiler (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008)

Fashion, photography. (myairfro.com, 01 Nov 2020)

Athlete, Personal Trainer

Photography - Middlesex University, Hendon, GBR

English

City of Stoke AC [Great Britain]

Michael Afilaka [personal], GBR

Her older brother Alex Nelson has represented Great Britain in athletics, and won a gold medal in the 200m at the 2007 European Junior Championships in Hengelo, Netherlands. He was selected for the British team for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing but did not compete due to injury. Her cousin Curtis Nelson has played professional football in England and in 2019 signed for Cardiff City. Her other cousin Wes Nelson appeared on the British reality television show 'Love Island' in 2018. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Apr 2020; stokesentinel.co.uk, 17 Aug 2018; plymouthherald.co.uk, 20 Jul 2014, 28 Jul 2012; bbc.co.uk, 29 Jun 2011)

Injury meant she had to withdraw from the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (bbc.co.uk, 05 Jan 2018)

In October 2017 she had an operation on her right rectus femoris [thigh] after first pulling it in 2016. When the injury did not improve with rehabilitation she chose to have surgery. (archive.voice-online.co.uk, 06 Aug 2018)

She missed the majority of the 2015 season, including the British championships, due to injury. (sportsmole.co.uk, 03 Jul 2015)

In 2014 she pulled nine different muscles around her groin area. (archive.voice-online.co.uk, 06 Aug 2018)

She missed the 2012 Olympic Games in London due to injury. (thesportsedit.com, 29 Jul 2020)

She missed much of 2006 as a result of an Achilles tendon injury. (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008)

She ran her first race at about age three at her brother's school sports day. She took up athletics at age seven. (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008)

She was influenced by her brother. (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (bbc.co.uk, 07 Jun 2019)

She trains five to six times a week. Her routine includes track, gym, pilates and pool recovery sessions. (myairfro.com, 01 Nov 2020; thesportsedit.com, 29 Jul 2020)

French footballer Thierry Henry, US sprinters Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene. (olympics.org.uk, 31 Jul 2008)