Sally Jane Janet Gunnell, OBE, DL (born 29 July 1966) is a British former track-and-field athlete, active between 1984 and 1997, who won the 1992 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles.

[citation needed] Gunnell started out in athletics with the Essex Ladies club[5] as an accomplished long jumper and heptathlete, before specialising in hurdling.

In 1984, she narrowly missed Olympic selection at both heptathlon, with a score of 5680 points and in the 100 metres hurdles, where she set a UK junior record of 13.30 secs.

Outdoors, she finished second in the 400 m hurdles at the European Cup behind East Germany's Petra Krug, but ahead of Olympic silver medallist Tatyana Ledovskaya.

In September 1997, she retired after a recurrence of an Achilles tendon injury forced her to pull out of the World Championships semi-final.

[citation needed] She also co-hosted the game show Body Heat (1994–96) on ITV with Mike Smith and Jeremy Guscott.

– Series 7 (1993–94), co-winning with Michaela Strachan, donating her winnings to a charity working to find a cure for breast cancer.

[citation needed] In summer 2006, she was a celebrity showjumper in the BBC's Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses.

[citation needed] She took part in a celebrity version of TV show Total Wipeout which aired on 2 January 2010.

[14] In 2012, Gunnell was one of five Olympians chosen as part of a series body-casting artworks by Louise Giblin exhibited in London and copies were being sold in aid of the charity Headfirst.