• Source: Shana Cox

      • Shana Amanda Cox (born January 22, 1985) is an American-born track and field athlete, who competes internationally for Great Britain since 2011. She specialises in the 200 metres and 400 metres.
      Cox was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents of British descent. Growing up in Long Island, New York, she attended Trinity Lutheran School in Hicksville, New York, as well as the Holy Trinity Diocesan High School and Penn State. In her senior year at college, she won the 400 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2008 NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship.
      In 2011, the International Association of Athletics Federations approved Cox's transfer of allegiance from the US to Great Britain, the birthplace of both her parents.
      Competing in her first major competition for Great Britain, Cox won a gold medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a team that also included Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu and Perri Shakes-Drayton.
      On November 9, 2013, she married Michael Bingham, also an American-born sprinter representing Great Britain.


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      See also


      List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians


      References



      Shana Cox at World Athletics


      External links


      Shana Cox at Olympedia (archive)
      Shana Cox at Olympics.com
      Shana Cox at Team GB
      Shana Cox at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
      Shana Cox at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)

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