Shara Proctor, the current British record holder for the long jump and a member of Team GB, on Friday, August 10, visited Slough to celebrate her achievements with the Mayor and members of the local Anguillian community there.
Shara, an Anguillian by birth, was a popular athlete in the just-ended Olympics inLondon. She has been competing in the long jump since in 2006. Just recently, in 2012, she won her first senior medal forGreat Britain, a Bronze medal in the Long Jump in the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships. That was when she achieved a British national jump record of 6.89 metres.
Her longest jump outdoors is 6.95 metres in the long jump, achieved in June 2012 in Birmingham; and 13.74 metres in the triple jump, achieved in May 2009 in Greensboro. She holds the national long jump records for Anguilla andGreat Britain.
Members of the Anguillian Diaspora Community in Slough were on hand to celebrate Shara’s achievements at an official reception held in our honour last week Friday.
At the reception, Shara met with the Mayor of Slough, Councillor Christine Small, and was presented with the newly-established Transmarinis Award from the Government of Anguilla’s UK Representative, Dorothea Hodge.
