WAAA and National Championships Medallists - 440 yards and 400 metres

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		First		Second		Third
		WAAA Championships
		⚥ - later identified as a man
		440 Yards
1922		Mary Lines	64.4 WR	Ivy Lowman	7 yards	Alice Cast
1923		Mary Lines	62.4 WR	Louise Low	10 yards	Peggy Batt	30 yards
1924		Vera Palmer	65.2	Edith Trickey	67.4	Alice Cast	3 yards
1925		Vera Palmer	61.4	Edith Trickey	3 yards	Violet Streater	inches
1926		Vera Palmer	61.8	Dorothy Proctor	1½ yards	Violet Streater	1½ yards
1927		Dorothy Proctor	62.4	Florence Haynes	12 yards	Olive Clark	6 yards
1928		Florence Haynes	60.8 WR	Annie Stone	60.9e	Ivy Barber	8 yards
1929		Marion King	59.2 WR	Annie Stone	59.2e =WR	Ellen Wright	15 yards
		(King ran 60.6 WR in heat 2)
1930		Ellen Wright	59.8	Dorothy Butterfield	5 yards	Dorothea Fairley	1 yard
1931		Nellie Halstead	58.8 WR	Dorothy Butterfield	easily	Vera Rudd
1932		Nellie Halstead	56.8 WR	Violet Branch	18 yards	Violet Humphries	21 yards
		(Hallstead ran 58.8 =WR in heat 1)
		400 Metres (except 1945)
1933		Nellie Halstead	58.8	Violet Branch	59.5	Dorothy Bruty	61.0
1934		Violet Branch	60.0	Edith Street	61.7e	Nellie Bishop
1935		Olive Hall	61.9	Cissely Colvil	62.3e	Vera Rudd	62.9e
1936		Olive Hall	58.6	Vera Rudd	61.0	Betty Walters	61.5
1937		Nellie Halstead	60.1	Vera Rudd	5 yards	Constance Furneaux	4 yards
1938		Olive Hall	60.0	Betty Walters	6 yards	Marie Sole	4 yards
1939		Lillian Chalmers ⚥	59.5	Olive Hall	15 yards	Beryl Hill	2 yards
		1940-1944 Championships not held
1945	440y	Winifred Jordan	61.8	Lillian Chalmers	⚥	Irene Stretton
1946		Margaret Walker	59.3	Phyllis Richards		Lillian Chalmers	⚥
1947		Joan Upton	61.6	Joyce Heath	62.2	Rose Eaton	62.5
1948		Valerie Ball	60.8	B. Kemp	61.3	Rose Eaton	61.8
1949		Valerie Ball	59.4	Margaret Walker	60.0	Pamela Germain
1950		Valerie Ball	57.5	Margaret Taylor	59.0	Pamela Germain	59.2
1951		Valerie Ball	58.2	Margaret Taylor	59.5	Maureen Attwater	60.6
		440 Yards
1952		Valerie Ball	59.3	Betty Loakes	59.5	Margaret Taylor	60.0
1953		Valerie Winn (Ball)	57.6	Betty Loakes	57.8	Dorothy Saunders	59.9
1954		Gloria Goldsborough	57.1	Janet Ruff	57.4	Madeleine Wooller	59.2
1955		Janet Ruff	56.9	Anne Herman	58.4	Violet Murphy	58.4
1956		Janet Ruff	56.5 WR	Janice Bonner	57.0	Joy Buckmaster	57.6
1957		Janet Ruff	56.4 WR	Violet Murphy	56.5	Margaret Pickerill	56.7
1958		Shirley Pirie	56.4 =WR	Lesley Mackinnnon	57.5	Pam Piercy	57.6
		(Pirie also ran 56.4 =WR in heat 4)
1959		Margaret Pickerill	55.9	Ine ter Laak-Spijk NED	56.5	Ann Sissons	56.8
1960		Pam Piercy	57.2	Lesley Davis	57.5	Jean Dunbar	58.0
1961		Maeve Kyle IRL	56.3	Jean Dunbar	56.9	Joy Grieveson	57.3
1962		Jean Sorrell (Dunbar)	55.1 NR	Joy Grieveson	55.3	Maeve Kyle IRL	55.4
		(Pam Piercy ran 55.3 NR in her heat)
1963		Joy Grieveson	55.9	Maeve Kyle IRL	56.5	Mary Tagg	57.3
1964		Ann Packer	54.3	Joy Grieveson	55.8	Maeve Kyle IRL	55.9
1965		Joy Grieveson	55.11	Dierdre Watkinson	55.15	Gertrud Schmidt GDR	56.02
1966		Hilde Slaman NED	54.7	Joy Grieveson	54.9	Rosemary Stirling	55.1
1967		Lillian Board	55.3	Mary Green (Tagg)	55.3	Rosemary Stirling	55.7
		400 Metres
1968		Myrna van der Hoeven NED	53.6	Janet Simpson	53.9	Mary Green	54.3
1969		Jenny Pawsey	54.3	Pauline Attwood	55.2	Barbara Lyall	55.6
1970		Marilyn Neufville	52.6	Christel Frese FRG	54.3	Inge Eckhoff FRG	54.5
1971		Jannette Roscoe	53.93	Brenda Walsh CAN	54.00	Verona Bernard	54.30
1972		Verona Bernard	53.20	Maureen Tranter	54.06	Hilda Kooy NED	54.34
1973		Jannette Roscoe	53.78	Claire Walsh IRL	54.26	Aideen Morrison IRL	54.47
1974		Yvonne Saunders CAN	51.90	Donna Murray	52.58	Verona Bernard	53.07
1975		Donna Murray	51.88	Verona Elder (Bernard)	53.21	Liz Barnes	53.43
1976		Verona Elder	52.08	Bev Goddard	53.08	Ruth Kennedy	53.71
1977		Verona Elder	52.3	Gladys McCormack	53.3	Christine Warden	53.7
1978		Joslyn Hoyte	52.66	Verona Elder	53.40	Linda McCurry	54.01
1979		Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	51.90	Verona Elder	52.78	Dianne Clarke	52.98
1980		Michelle Probert	51.94	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	51.98	Verona Elder	53.05
1981		Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	51.70	Linda Forsyth	53.48	Alison Reid	53.92
1982		Michelle Scutt (Probert)	51.05	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	51.12	Linsey Macdonald	52.30
1983		Denise Boyd AUS	51.62	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	52.98	Gladys Taylor (McCormack)	53.35
1984		Tracy Lawton	52.74	Linda Keough	53.73	Carol Finlay	53.76
1985		Maree Chapman AUS	51.51	Linda Keough	52.52	Tracy Lawton	52.95
1986		Kathy Cook	53.50	Angela Piggford	54.10	Jane Parry	54.28
1987		Linda Keough	53.17	Loreen Hall	53.69	Carol Finlay	53.84
1988		Linda Keough	51.65	Pat Beckford	52.49	Janet Smith	52.89
1989		Linda Keough	51.09	Jennifer Stoute	51.53	Angela Piggford	53.18
1990		Lillie Leatherwood USA	51.62	Linda Keough	51.77	Susan Andrews AUS	52.49
1991		Maicel Malone USA	50.89	Lorraine Hanson	51.88	Jennifer Stoute	52.60
		AAA Championships
1992		Cathy Freeman AUS	51.14	Michelle Lock AUS	51.19	Phylis Smith	51.36
1993		Phylis Smith	52.15	Kylie Hanigan AUS	52.68	Sølvi Meinseth NOR	53.70
1994		Melanie Neef	52.56	Tracey Goddard	53.59	Sandra Douglas	53.78
1995		Melanie Neef	51.63	Lorraine Hanson	52.68	Georgina Oladapo	52.71
1996		Phylis Smith	51.74	Georgina Oladapo	52.48	Allison Curbishley	52.76
1997	BAF	Donna Fraser	51.82	Michelle Pierre	53.13	Lorraine Hanson	53.73
1997	AAA	Lorraine Hanson	53.45	Stephanie Llewellyn	53.65	Lesley Sloan	55.17
1998		Allison Curbishley	50.92	Donna Fraser	51.47	Michelle Thomas	53.25
1999		Katharine Merry	50.62	Helen Frost	52.43	Michelle Thomas	52.59
2000		Donna Fraser	50.94	Allison Curbishley	51.50	Helen Frost	53.33
2001		Lesley Owusu	52.27	Donna Fraser	52.57	Lee McConnell	52.93
2002		Lee McConnell	51.59	Catherine Murphy	52.10	Helen Karagounis	52.45
2003		Helen Karagounis	52.51	Catherine Murphy	52.92	Melanie Purkiss	53.58
2004		Christine Ohuruogu	50.98	Lee McConnell	51.29	Helen Karagounis	52.38
2005		Donna Fraser	51.27	Christine Ohuruogu	52.28	Catherine Murphy	52.66
2006		Nicola Sanders	50.74	Gemma Nicol	53.46	Lesley Owusu	53.63
		National Championships
2007		Nicola Sanders	51.33	Donna Fraser	52.65	Vicky Barr	52.85
2008		Lee McConnell	52.31	Vicky Barr	53.01	Donna Fraser	53.11
2009		Christine Ohuruogu	51.26	Perri Shakes-Drayton	51.81	Kim Wall	52.75
2010		Lee McConnell	51.55	Nicola Sanders	52.70	Nadine Okyere	53.07
2011		Perri Shakes-Drayton	51.52	Shana Cox	51.84	Christine Ohuruogu	51.91
2012		Christine Ohuruogu	51.89	Shana Cox	52.87	Lee McConnell	53.05
2013		Christine Ohuruogu	50.98	Shana Cox	51.76	Margaret Adeoye	51.93
2014		Kelly Massey	52.42	Shana Cox	52.51	Emily Diamond	52.75
2015		Anyika Onuora	51.87	Christine Ohuruogu	52.04	Shana Cox	52.64
2016		Emily Diamond	51.64	Seren Bundy-Davies	52.38	Anyika Onuora	52.57
2017		Zoey Clark	52.30	Emily Diamond	52.34	Anyika Onuora	52.82
2018		Anyika Onuora	51.95	Laviai Nielsen	51.99	Amy Allcock	52.10
2019		Laviai Nielsen	52.04	Emily Diamond	52.39	Zoey Clark	52.52
2020		Laviai Nielsen	51.72	Jessica Turner	52.57	Yasmin Liverpool	53.21
2021		Jodie Williams	51.02	Nicole Yeargin	51.26	Ama Pipi	51.33
2022		Victoria Ohuruogu	51.45	Nicole Yeargin	51.69	Laviai Nielsen	51.97
2023		Victoria Ohuruogu	50.89	Ama Pipi	51.52	Yemi Mary John	51.61
2024		Amber Anning	50.47	Laviai Nielsen	50.92	Yemi Mary John	51.23
2025		Amber Anning	50.53	Victoria Ohuruogu	50.79	Yemi Mary John	50.84

Top Medallists
	1st	2nd	3rd	Total Medals	Years	Year Span
Verona Bernard/Elder	3	3	3	9	1971-1980	9
Christine Ohuruogu	4	2	1	7	2004-2015	11
Donna Fraser	3	3	1	7	1997-2008	11
Valerie Ball/Winn	6			6	1948-1953	5
Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	3	3		6	1978-1983	5
Linda Keough	3	3		6	1984-1990	6
Lee McConnell	3	1	2	6	2001-2012	11
Joy Grieveson	2	3	1	6	1961-1966	5
Laviai Nielsen	2	2	1	5	2018-2024	6
Shana Cox		4	1	5	2011-2015	4
Nellie Halstead	4			4	1931-1937	6
Olive Hall	3	1		4	1935-1939	4
Janet Ruff	3	1		4	1954-1957	3
Anyika Onuora	2		2	4	2015-2018	3
Emily Diamond	1	2	1	4	2014-2019	5
Maeve Kyle IRL	1	1	2	4	1961-1964	3
Vera Rudd		2	2	4	1931-1937	6
Other top winners and long spans
Vera Palmer	3			3	1924-1926	2
Lillian Chalmers ⚥	1	1	1	3	1939-1946	7
Lorraine Hanson		2	1	3	1991-1997	6
Gladys McCormack/Taylor		1	1	2	1977-1983	6

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WAAA and National Championships Medallists - 440 yards and 400 metres

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