Calli Thackery

Calli Hauger-Thackery (born 9 January 1993) is an English international athlete. She was bronze medalist in the women's half Marathon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships, and a member of the gold medal team in the 2024 European Half-Marathon Cup, held at the same time.

She has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Paris Olympics and represented England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Her father Carl Thackery was a team GB runner in the 1980's and 90's.

Biography

Calli Thackery won the 3000-meter run indoors at the 2012 British Universities and Colleges Sport Championships. After winning the 2012 BUCS, she was recruited to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Thackery was educated at the University of New Mexico and in June 2022 recorded a personal best of 15:06.26 for the 5,000 metres placing her 17th on the all-time UK list. She relocated to Australia at the end of 2019 to train out of Melbourne Track Club and trains out of the Hallamshire Harriers in the United Kingdom.

In 2022, she was selected for the women's 5,000 metres event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

She is married to American marathon runner Nick Hauger.

In February 2024, Calli Hauger-Thackery of Sheffield, England who was selected to race the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics marathon in the colours of Great Britain for UK Athletics, heads to the French capital, (Paris). Callie qualified in her 1st marathon after winning the McKirdy Micro On the Cusp Marathon in Valley Cottage, New York on 14 October 2023 in 2:22:17.

References

External Links

• Calli Thackery on Instagram
• Calli Hauger-Thackery profile Power of 10
• MARATHON TALK EPISODE 28: CALLI THACKERY World Marathon Majors podcast
• Calli Hauger-Thackery University of New Mexico profile TFRRS
• Calli Hauger-Thackery profile University of New Mexico
• Calli Thackery at World Athletics
• Calli Hauger-Thackery profile Diamond League