Margaret Simpson

Margaret Simpson won heptathlon bronze at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki with 6,375 points, and dominated African multi-events for a decade. Her best of 6,423 points came at the Götzis meeting that May.

Career

She was born on 31 December 1981. She won the African junior title in 1999 and finished fourth at that year's All-Africa Games. In 2002 she took Commonwealth Games bronze and her first African Championships gold, and in 2004 she won the African title again and placed ninth at the Athens Olympics. After missing 2006 she returned in 2007 to set an African women's decathlon record of 7,014 points and win All-Africa Games gold. She went on to win further African heptathlon titles in 2010 and the All-Africa Games in 2011, and also won African gold in the javelin.