Charlotte Moore | |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1985 |
Birth Place: | Bournemouth, Dorset, England |
Years Active: | 2001–2008 |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 800 metres |
Commonwealth: | 2002 |
Pb: | 1:59.75 |
Charlotte Moore (born 4 January 1985) is a runner who completed for England in the 800 metres at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.[1]
Moore attended Bournemouth School for Girls[1] and was a member of Bournemouth Athletics Club.[2] In 2001, she competed in the European Youth Summer Olympics, where she sustained an ankle injury in the final.[3] Later in the year, she competed at a Great Britain vs USA junior international event.[3]
Aged 17, Moore competed for England in the 800 metres at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, after coming third in the trials for the event.[4] In her semi-final, she set an English under-20 record time of 2:00.95, which was five seconds quicker than her season's best performance.[1] [5] In the final, Moore became the first English junior to run the 800 metres in under 2 minutes. She finished sixth in a time of 1:59.75.[5] [1] [6] She competed in the 800 metres at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics.[7]
After two years away from sport with an injury, Moore won the 2008 Swanage half-marathon.[2]