Shaunagh Brown

Sport: Athletics, discus and shot put

Age: 18

Club: Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club (AC)

Personal best: Discus 51.18m, shot put 13.30m

Key achievements:

She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games.
She was three-times English Schools champion.
She was the 2006 UK School Games champion.
She was the 2005/06 schools international champion.
She was the 2006 AAA champion.
She came second at the World Schools Games Cup match in France.
She was a finalist at the World Youth Games.

Photo of athlete Shaunagh Brown

Shaunagh Brown is one of the country's leading female throwers, ranking in the top three nationally in both the discus and shot put. The highlight of her career is the bronze medal she won in Pune, India in 2008 at the Commonwealth Youth Games. This was coupled with a fourth-placed finish in the shot put in a season when she also represented Great Britain at the IAAF World Junior Championships.

The medal was Shaunagh's first medal at an international games beating her previous best of reaching the final at the World Youth Games in Ostrava in July 2007.

Shaunagh's club, Blackheath and Bromley, qualified for the European Club Championships in 2007 and 2008. In the Czech Republic in 2007 Shaunagh came fifth in the discus. In Serbia in 2008 she picked up a bronze medal.

Shaunagh, who moved to Gillingham from Peckham in South London in 2006, is a national champion and a three-time English Schools champion.

Photo of Medway elite athlete Shaunagh Brown

She also captained the London girls' team at the UK School Games in 2006, winning a gold medal along the way.

Shaunagh was the schools international champion in 2005 and 2006 and came second at the Word Schools Games Cup in France in 2007.

Shaunagh started athletics at the age of 12, when she went to her local track for mini-marathon trials and was asked to join the club.

She was a runner initially but quickly started training with the throwing coach and hasn't looked back since.

Shaunagh can be seen weight training at the Black Lion Leisure Centre in Gillingham, to which she and her coach John Hillier have free access as part of the Medway 2012 Elite Athlete Support Programme.

Shaunagh's long-term ambition is to be a consistent 60m plus thrower and compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games.