| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Angela Kate Smit | ||||||||||||||
| Full name | Angela Kate Petty | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 August 1991 Christchurch, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Canterbury[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Sam Petty (m. 2014) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 800 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Danny Mackey | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Angela Kate Petty (née Smit; born 16 August 1991) is a New Zealand middle-distance athlete.[2]
Born in Christchurch in 1991,[3] she was educated at Rangiora High School.[4] In 2007, she won the New Zealand secondary schools 800 m title, clocking 2:11.42.[4]
The following year Petty represented New Zealand in the 800 m at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland,[5] finishing fourth in her semi-final in a time of 2:08.73,[2] and she successfully defended her national schools 800 m title.[6] At the Athletics Canterbury Awards in 2010, she was co-winner with Tom Walsh of the junior athlete of the year award.[7]
She competed in the 800 m at the 2010 World Junior Championships, where she was again eliminated in the semi-finals, finishing in 2:05.51.[2]
At the 2012 New Zealand championships, she won the 800 m title and was second in both the 400 m and 1500 m. In July that year, she ran the 800 m in 2:00.67 at a meet in Heusden, Belgium, just failing to qualify for the New Zealand team for the 2012 Olympics.[8]
Petty and Walsh were joint winners of Athletics Canterbury's athlete of the year award in 2013.[9] In July 2013, she ran a personal best of 2:00.03 for 800 m in finishing fourth at the World University Games in Kazan,[10] and backed it up two weeks later with 2:00.42 to finish fifth in the Diamond League meet in London.[11] At the World Athletics Championships in Moscow the following month, she clocked 2:00.60 in finishing fourth in her 800 m heat and did not progress further.[12]
Petty represented New Zealand in the 800 m at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, finishing fifth in the final in a time of 2.01:94.[13]
Petty studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree in education at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.[14] In 2014, she married British triathlete Sam Petty.[15]
| Event | Time | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 400 m | 54.15[16] | Mannheim, Germany | 29 July 2016 |
| 600 m | 1:26.72[2] | Liège, Belgium | 5 July 2012 |
| 800 m | 1:59.06[2][16] | Gwangju, South Korea | 10 July 2015 |
| 1000 m | 2:37.82[2][16] | Chiba, Japan | 15 August 2015 |
| 1500 m | 4:07.83[2] | Turku, Finland | 29 June 2016 |
| Mile | 4:43.66[16] | Wanganui, New Zealand | 20 January 2014 |
