Tiffany Porter Athlete
Tiffany Adaez Porter (formerly Tiffany Ofili and Tiffany Ofili-Porter) (13 November 1987) is an American born track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles. She represented the United States as a junior. She failed to achieve USA selection for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and switched allegiance to Great Britain in 2010. Tiffany Porter's father Felix is Nigerian and her mother, Lilian, is English (African English). She herself was born in the United States. Porter has held both American and British nationality since her birth. She has therefore been eligible to represent both the United States and Great Britain. As an American athlete, Porter represented the United States at the inaugural NACAC Championships winning a silver medal. However, at the end of the 2010 season, Ofili changed her allegiance to Great Britain. Commenting on her switch, she said: "I knew I was going to perform no matter what vest I had on. I have always regarded myself as British, American and Nigerian. I'm all three. " Porter broke Angie Thorp's 15 year old British record of 12.80s on 29 May 2011, at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, with a run of 12.77s . Thorp said that losing her record had made her "devastated". She stated that if a British born athlete, for example Jessica Ennis or Sarah Claxton, who at the time both had personal bests of 12.81s, had broken her record she would have been "the first to congratulate", but as Porter had transferred from the United States, she was "absolutely distraught". Porter lowered her British record on 22 July 2011, with a time of 12.60s at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco, breaking her previous personal best of 12.73s (set when she was still a US athlete). Ofili married Jeff Porter in May 2011, and began to compete under her married name from June 2011. Porter graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in pharmacology in 2012.
