[2] Winkcup ran 13th in her Women's 3000m steeplechase heat but failed to qualify for the final.

Initially a distance runner, she started steeplechasing under her then coach Ross Forster.

In 2016, Winkcup finished in 15th place in the final of the women's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

[5] She then competed in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar.

Back in Sydney she ran two more races clocking 9:40.25 and 9:46.03 in wet conditions and qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.