| Stephanie Ratcliffe | |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Hammer throw |
| Birth Date: | 29 December 2000 |
| Pb: | Hammer: 73.63m (Austin, 2023) NR |
Stephanie Ratcliffe (born 29 December 2000) is an Australian hammer thrower.[1]
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.[2] [3]
She represented Australia in senior competition at the Oceania Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022.[4]
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.[5] [6] She won the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor title in Austin, Texas in June 2023 with a new national record of 73.63 metres.[7] In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[8]
After transferring to the University of Georgia, she was runner-up at the SEC Championships in May 2024.[9] In July 2024, she was selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[10]