Glasgow silver medallist Julia Ratcliffe hoping to find form for Commonwealth Games JOSEPH PEARSONGETTY IMAGES Hammer thrower Julia Ratcliffe won her fourth national title in Hamilton (FILE PHOTO). Julia Ratcliffe has four weeks to find the form that won her silver four years ago in the last Commonwealth Games. The 24-year-old did just that in the first event, in her hometown last month, so the pressure was off when she won the women's hammer throw at the national track and field championships at Hamilton's Porritt Stadium on Saturday. Ratcliffe needed 71m to reach the last Olympics - her personal best of 70.75m wasn't enough - and she said the standard of hammer throwing around the world had improved since her silver medal in Glasgow. Ratcliffe competed in London just after graduating from Princeton University in the United States with an economics degree, but she is now committed to training full-time for hammer throw.

Source: Stuff March 10, 2018 04:41 UTC