British athlete

Asha Philip

Asha Solette Philip is an English sprinter and former junior gymnast specialising in double mini-trampoline. She was the first British woman to achieve a global 100 metres title at any age-group, winning gold at the 2007 World Youth Championships aged 16. Following a serious knee injury in gymnastics in a championship in Quebec at 17, and a rehabilitation period of several years, she returned to athletics full-time in 2014, winning gold at the European Athletics Championships in the 4 × 100 metres relay for Great Britain, and bronze in the same event at the Commonwealth Games for England.

Born

1990

October 25

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Asha, in brief

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Key dates

1990 Born

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The world in 1990

When Asha arrived

april 11 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
april 12 Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
april 12 Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.
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Same-day contemporaries

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2 Cold Scorpio 1965– American wrestler Adam Pascal 1970– American actor and singer Anthony Franciosa 1928–2006 American actor (born 1928) Arthur Schmidt 1895– German officer (died 1987) Azizan Abdul Razak 1944–2013 Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (died 2013) Beate Sirota Gordon 1923–2012 Austrian-American director and producer (born 1923) Bobby Thomson 1923– Scottish-American baseball player (died 2010) Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein 1749– Swedish chamberlain (died 1802) Fabian Hambüchen 1987– German gymnast

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Adam Thielen 1990– American football player Brock Osweiler 1990– American football player Choi Woo-shik 1990– South Korean actor Chris Colfer 1990– American actor and singer Geno Smith 1990– American football player Haruma Miura 1990– Japanese actor and singer (died 2020) Im Yoon-ah 1990– South Korean singer and actress Jae Crowder 1990– American basketball player John Carlson 1990– American ice hockey player

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