Sharon Cripps


Sharon Lee Cripps is a former track and field sprinter from Australia. She attended Ferny Grove State High School in Brisbane.

Athletics career

Cripps represented Australia in two Summer Olympics and two Commonwealth Games, as well as the 2003 World Championships.
At the 1996 Olympics, as a 19-year-old, she made the final of the women's 4 x 100 metres relay, finishing seventh. She was part of the Australian team that won the gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1998 Commonwealth Games along with Tania Van Heer, Lauren Hewitt and Nova Peris-Kneebone in a time of 43.39 seconds. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she made the final of both the 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay, finishing seventh and fourth respectively. In 2003, she was Australia's national champion in the women's 100 and 200 metres.

Personal bests