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Injury ended Perri Shakes-Drayton’s hurdles fantasy but she is reinventing herself importance a 400m flat sportsperson and tells AW about assemblage journey
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People: Perri Shakes-Drayton
With four European and World Championship gold medals to her name, Perri Shakes-Drayton is best known for her achievements on the athletics track. However, she has been running her own fitness classes - Train with PSD (her initials) - in London over the last year and says that growing the PSD brand to span media, health and fitness could be her next stop when she retires from athletics.
“I’ve done TV and radio in the past and really like doing things like that. I’ve also done the fitness side of things, so I think I’m going to be involved in a wide variety of projects in the future.”
Her latest role as the official UK ambassador for Zumba’s new workout, STRONG by Zumba, further suggests that a move into the fitness industry may be on the cards for the 28-year-old.
ZUMBA WITH HIIT
“STRONG by Zumba is challenging. That’s what I like about it, and it really does make you feel strong” says Perri Shakes-Drayton.
“I think I’m an individual who could be described as strong.”
There’s no denying that strong is an accurate description of the Olympic 400m runner, which makes her partnership with the dance fitness brand’s rework of high intensity interval training (HIIT) extremely fitting.
STRONG by Zumba is an hour-long full body workout that fuses th
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The GLL Sport Foundation (GSF), the UK’s largest independent athlete support programme, has appointed Team GB sprinter Perri Shakes-Drayton as a member of its board.
Following GLL’s recent appointment of James Jebb as its new Foundations Manager, heading up both GSF and the GLL Community Foundation (GCF), the foundation has added the experience of the long-term GSF recipient.
Supported by GSF since 2008, Perri’s career honours include national, European and World indoor titles, as well as becoming the second fastest British athlete of all time in the 400m hurdles at London 2012, behind GSF patron Sally Gunnell.
Perri’s successful athletic career also led to a place on popular ITV show Dancing on Ice.
Having already served as a GSF Ambassador, Perri will now take her first steps into the governance of a sporting body, becoming the second athlete to be a GSF Board member following Susie Rodgers MBE.
Perri brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding for an athlete and their journey through sport, which she and GSF Board members believe will provide much needed insight to support the development of the programme and continue to help athletes from all walks of life achieve their dreams.
The GLL Sport Foundation was founded by charitable social enterprise GLL to pro