Stephanie Ratcliffe
Stephanie Ratcliffe is an Australian hammer thrower. She won the 2023 [NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships|2023] and 2025 NCAA [Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships|2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships].
Early life
From Melbourne, she started athletics when she was five years-old. She attended Doncaster Secondary College. In 2019 she won the Australian U20 hammer throw title. Later that year, she began a scholarship at Harvard University. However, she returned to Australia at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and studied remotely for 18 months.Career
She represented Australia in senior competition at the Oceania Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022.She set an Australian national record in the hammer throw in May 2023 at the East Regional Conference Final with a collegiate-leading mark of 73.11 metres, breaking the Australian record of Bronwyn Eagles set in 2003 by two metres. She won the 2023 NCAA Division I [Outdoor Track and Field Championships|2023 NCAA Division 1 Outdoor] title in Austin, Texas in June 2023 with a new national record of 73.63 metres. In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 [World Athletics Championships] in Budapest.
After transferring to the University of Georgia, she was runner-up at the SEC Championships in May 2024. She competed in the hammer throw at the Athletics at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|2024 Paris Olympics].
She threw 71.37 metres to win the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2025, competing for the University of Georgia.
In September 2025, she competed in the hammer throw at the 2025 [World Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw|2025 World Championships] in Tokyo, Japan.