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English track and field athlete (born )

Peirresha Alexandra Shakes-Drayton (born 21 December ) is a British retired track and field athlete. After specialising in the metres hurdles in the early part of her career, a knee injury at the World Championships forced Shakes-Drayton to concentrate on the metres on her return to athletics.^[2] She is the European Indoor Champion in the metres and won a World Indoor Championship gold medal in the 4 x &#;metres relay.

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She has also won silver and bronze medals in the 4 × &#;m relay at the World Championships.

In , Shakes-Drayton took part in the tenth series of the ITV show Dancing on Ice, and in she participated in the seventh series of Richard Osman's House of Games.

Personal life

Shakes-Drayton was born in east London to Christian parents from Grenada, and grew up in Bow, where she continues to reside.^[3] She attended Holy Family R.C.

Primary School in Poplar and Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School in Stepney.^[3] She studied sports science at Brunel University,^[3] where she graduated with a She married high-jump athlete Mike Olayemi Edwards in London in June Shakes-Drayton gave birth to her first child with Edwards on 26 August ^[4] Shakes-Drayton is an honorary member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority; she was inducted on July 27, , at the sorority's Boulé in Indianapolis, Indiana.^[5]

Athletics career

Shakes-Drayton came to prominence at the English Schools Championships where she set a UK junior record time in the &#;m hurdles.^[6] She made her first major international appearance at the World Junior Championships in Athletics where she finished eighth, achieving a new personal best of &#;seconds.^[7] She took the silver medal at the European Athletics Junior Championships with a time of &#;s, a national junior record in the event.^[8][9]

Shakes-Drayton won the &#;m hurdles at the Olympic Games GB trials, but veteran Tasha Danvers was instead chosen to represent Great Britain, and went on to win the bronze medal.^[10] Despite the non-selection, Shakes-Drayton was considered to be a medal prospect for the next Olympics in ^[7] At the British Championships in Birmingham, she finished second in the metres behind reigning world champion Christine Ohuruogu, setting a new personal best.

Further success came on the junior circuit at the European Athletics U23 Championships, where she won the &#;m hurdles gold medal with a run of &#;seconds, another personal best. Having secured a place on the Great Britain team, she set her sights on the World Championships in Athletics, remarking: "I like people talking about me. It means I must be doing some things right.

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Now I have to live up to the hype because hype is pointless if you don't live up to it."^[11]

She ran at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin and reached the semi-finals of the competition. However, she finished seventh in the race with a time of &#;seconds and did not compete in the final. She ran a personal best of &#;seconds for the &#;m hurdles to win at the Memorial Primo Nebiolo in June ^[12]

In the absence of Tasha Danvers, Shakes-Drayton and Eilidh Child were the sole representatives for Great Britain at the European Athletics Championships.

Shakes-Drayton finished 2nd in her heat, with a time of She then finished 3rd in her semi-final to qualify for the final in a new personal best of In the final she finished third to win the bronze medal with a new personal best of

At the London Grand Prix, the final Diamond League meeting prior to the London Olympic Games, Shakes-Drayton recorded another personal best for the m hurdles of , a time that put her second in the world rankings for the year and also made her the second-fastest British athlete of all time in the event, behind only Sally Gunnell.^[13] However, in the Olympic &#;m hurdles she was unable to reach the final, finishing third in her semi-final heat.^[14] She was also part of the GB 4 × &#;m relay team which finished fifth in the final of that event.^[15]

At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Shakes-Drayton went on to win gold in the Women's &#;m final with a Personal Best of , ahead of another Great Britain runner Eilidh Child.

She was also part of the Women's 4 × &#;m team (along with Eilidh Child, Shana Cox and Christine Ohuruogu) that won gold at the same championships.^[16]

In , she announced her retirement from her athletics career.^[17]

Personal bests

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