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Profile - Kerry Saxby-Junna
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Kerry Saxby-Junna made her mark on world athletics in 1986 when she won the Goodwill Games gold medal for the 10k Walk. Since then she has demolished world records for most walking distances and won a variety of international and national sporting honours. |
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Kerry Saxby started off in athletics as a runner with her sister Sharon. Sharon was a national schoolgirl champion over 800m but Kerry did not have such success. She began race walking and quickly began to establish a name for herself in Australia. She improved significantly in the mid 1980s with assistance from the Australian Institute of Sport, working under coach Craig Hilliard. She has set world bests or world
records for the following walk distances:
In her career, Kerry Saxby-Junna has won World Championship silver and bronze medals, two Commonwealth Games gold medals, World Indoor Championships Gold medals. In 1999, she won a surprise bronze medal in the inaugural 20k Walk at the World Championships and continued her good form into 2000 setting a new Commonwealth Record for the 20k distance in Europe. Kerry Saxby, 39 year old mother and veteran walker, will still be a medal hope in Sydney 2000. More Kerry-Saxby-Junna
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