Anna Purchase

Anna Purchase is an English international athlete based in the United States. She has represented England at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Purchase was educated at the University of Nebraska and then the University of California, where she trained with future-World Champion, Camryn Rogers. She started throwing at the age of 13 and became only the second British woman to break the 70 metre barrier. She finished fourth at the 2021 European U23 Championships.
In 2022, she was selected for the Athletics at the [2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's hammer throw|women's hammer throw] event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad at the 2023 [World Athletics Championships|2023 World Athletics Championship] in Budapest, where she reached the 2023 [World Athletics Championships - Women's hammer throw|final].
In 2024, she became the British hammer throw champion after winning the title at the 2024 [British Athletics Championships]. Although Purchase met the qualification requirements for the Athletics at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Paris 2024] Olympics, she was not selected by British Athletics to compete and therefore was unable to take part.
Purchase won a second British title at the 2025 [UK Athletics Championships].