Draft:Thea Brown

Thea Brown (born 19 March 2007) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a multi-event athlete.

Career
A Sale Harriers athlete, Brown won the 2022 English Schools heptathlon and Schools International indoor pentathlon titles. In February 2023, at the English national junior championships, she recorded a personal best in the long jump with a jump of 5.94 metres to win the U17 title. She ran a new national U17 record time of 8.39 seconds to win the 60m hurdles title.

In July 2023, she was selected for the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games held in Trinidad and Tobago. She won a silver medal as part of the English 4x100m relay team. She also won silver at the games in the 100m hurdles. In September 2023, she moved to fourth place on the British all-time list for the U17 heptathlon with a score of 5147, moving ahead of international athletes Jade O'Dowda and Katarina Johnson-Thompson on the list.

On 17 February 2024, she qualified for the final of the 60m hurdles at the senior UK national indoors championships in Birmingham, with a personal best time of 8.26 seconds. In the final she finished fifth in a time of 8.35 seconds.

In May 2024 she finished second to Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the high jump at the Loughborough International, clearing a height of 1.83 metres. She ran a time of 13.33 seconds to qualify for the final of the 100m hurdles at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester on 29 June 2024. She placed fourth in the final.

In July 2024, she won silver in the heptathlon with a personal best of 5807 points at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Slovakia.