Gold medal-winning Australian athlete Sally Pearson, 32, announces she’s retiring from sport just a year before the Olympics
- Sally Pearson will retire from athletics today after an injury-plagued few years
- Gold medal-winning champion calls time on her career a year before Olympics
- She missed the last Commonwealth Games and 2016 Olympics with injuries
Sally Pearson will call time on her athletics career due to persistent injuries.
The announcement will come on Tuesday with the Tokyo Olympics less than a year away.
The 32-year-old Olympic and two-time world champion in the 100m hurdles suffered a hamstring strain in July which put in question her hopes of competing at the world championships in Doha starting in late September.
She was forced to pull out of last year’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast because of an achilles problem.
Pearson also missed the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a hamstring injury, leaving her unable to defend her title from the 2012 games in London.
Sally Pearson is reportedly expected to call time on her athletics career due to persistent injuries