Sonia Lannaman

Sonia Lannaman

Personal information
Born	(1956-03-24) 24 March 1956 (age 61)
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 4x100 m relay European Championships 1978 Prague 4x100 m relay Representing  England Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton 100m 1978 Edmonton 4x100m relay 1982 Brisbane 4x100m relay 1974 Christchurch 4x100m relay 1978 Edmonton 200m

Sonia May Lannaman (born 24 March 1956) is a former British athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She won the Commonwealth Games 100 metres title in Edmonton 1978 and won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1980 Moscow Games. In the 1977 Track and Field News world merit rankings, she was ranked number two in the world at both 100 metres (to Marlies Gohr) and 200 metres (to Irena Szewinska).

Lannaman was born in Aston, Birmingham, England and competed in her first Olympics in 1972 (held in Munich), where she set a British junior record of 11.45 sec. In 1973 she became European junior champion winning gold in the 100 metres, followed by a bronze in the 4 x 100 metres relay. In the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch she won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay.

In 1976 Lannaman won a silver medal at 60 metres at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Munich. In the summer of that year she made a major breakthorough into world class sprinting. She ran the 100 m in a hand-timed, wind assisted (+3.6) 10.8 sec. She also set a British record in the 200 metres. She was strongly tipped for medals in both sprints at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, but due to injury was unable to compete.

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