Donna Fraser

Donna Fraser
Medal record
Donna Fraser competing in a UK Women's League match at Birmingham
Representing United Kingdom
Women's athletics
World Championships
	2005 Helsinki	4x400 m relay
	2007 Osaka	4x400 m relay
Commonwealth Games
	1998 Kuala Lumpur	400 m
	1998 Kuala Lumpur	4x100 m relay
European Championships
	1998 Budapest	4x400 m relay
European Indoor Championships
	2009 Torino	4x400 m relay
	2005 Madrid	4x400 m relay
World Junior Championships
	1990 Plovdiv	4x100 m relay
European Junior Championships
	1991 Thessaloniki	400 m
	1991 Thessaloniki	4x100 m relay

Donna Karen Fraser (born 7 November 1972) in Thornton Heath, Croydon is a former English athlete, who mainly competed in the 200 and 400 m.

An exceptional junior, Fraser won six English Schools 200 m titles (as well as a silver medal for the 4 × 100 m at the 1990 World Junior Championships) before turning to the 400 m in 1991 and becoming European Junior Champion at the distance the same year (also gaining a silver medal for the 4 × 100 m). However, she didn't improve until 1996, when she began to concentrate on the 400 m seriously and qualified for British teams in the major outdoor championships between 1996 and 1999. However, it was at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 that she finally showed the potential she had had as a junior, when she clipped almost a second off her PB to finish 4th with a personal best time of 49.79 seconds, thanks in no small part to her training alongside Olympic Champion Cathy Freeman for that season.

A finalist in 1998 at the European Championships and Commonwealth Games (where she took a bronze medal), she has also played an integral part of Britain's 4 x 400 relay team, taking medals at the World Championships in 2005, European Championships and Commonwealth Games. She also won the BBC London Athlete of the Year Award for 2005. But her career after 2000 stalled due to a catalogue of injuries (including a torn achilles tendon).

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