Name: Candy Hawkins

Height/Weight: 166/ 55.9kg

Lives:Ashford

Athletics Club: Ashford AC

Coach: Chris Newman

  • Athletic Achievements
  • 21st Deaflympics, Taipei, Taiwan Sept 2009, 5000m 4th 19:15.70 PB
  • Kent Championships Tonbridge May 2009, W35 5000m gold 19:34.44 PB
  • Deaflympics Trial, April 2009, 5000m, 20:01.1 gold meeting City of Stoke Open meeting
  • BMAF Indoor Track & Field Championships March 2009, W35 1500m 2nd in Lee Valley, London
  • Kent Indoor Championships February 2009, W35 1500m silver in Lee Valley, London
  • British Masters Athletics Federation Championships Birmingham 2006, 800m silver and 400m bronze
  • Deaflympics Melbourne, Australia in January 2005, 800m and 1500m bronze
  • World Record Holder 10K, Ashford, Kent - May 2004
  • European Indoor Deaf Championships Sofia, Bulgaria 2004, 1500m silver and 800m bronze
  • European Deaf Athletics Championships Tallinn, Estonia 2003, 1500m gold and 800m silver
  • Kent Championships Ashford, Kent 2003, 800m and 1500m silver
  • European Indoor Deaf Championships Dortmund, Germanu 1998, 800m and 1500m gold
  • World Games for the Deaf, Copenhagen, Denmark June 1997, 800m and 1500m double gold medallist (World Games is now Deaflympics)
  • World 1 Mile Record Holder, Ashford Kent 1997
  • International Meeting Erfurt, Germany 1996, 800m and 1500m
  • European Deaf Athletics Championships Lausanne, Switzerland 1995 800m gold 
     
  • Other Achievements:

    BBC South East Sports Personality of the Year Award 2006
    Vee-TV 2005
    BBC See Hear 1997