Anna Purchase

Purchase was educated at the University of Nebraska and then the University of California, where she trained with future-World Champion, Camryn Rogers.^[3] She started throwing at the age of 13 and became only the second British woman to break the 70 metre barrier.^[4] She finished fourth at the 2021 European U23 Championships.^[5][6]

In 2022, she was selected for the women's hammer throw event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.^[1][5] She was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest,^[7] where she reached the final.

In 2024, she became the British hammer throw champion after winning the title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships.^[8] Although Purchase met the qualification requirements for the Paris 2024 Olympics, she was not selected by British Athletics to compete and therefore was unable to take part.^[9]

Purchase won a second British title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.