Background
Her mother got in touch with her nearest club and Hahn was called in for trials and accepted by coach Joseph McDonnell.
Her mother got in touch with her nearest club and Hahn was called in for trials and accepted by coach Joseph McDonnell.
In 2013 she qualified for the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, selected for the T38 100m and 200m. She took the gold in the 100m sprint, setting a new world record. Hahn, who has cerebral palsy, came into athletics at the age of 15.
Her first competitive races occurred in 2013, and in the Charnwood Athletics warm up she took the 100m and 200m races.
After entering several tournaments in June, she broke onto the British sprinting scene by taking first place at the England Athletics Senior Disability Championships, winning both 100m (1327s) and 200m (2788s). Selected for the IPC World Championships in Lyon in the T38, Hahn was entered in both the 100m and 200m in the T38 classification.
In the final she was beaten by Brazil"s Verônica Hipólito, but held on to take the silver medal. On 23 July she qualified for the 100m sprint, this time coming in second.
The next day, on the final, Hahn ran a world record time of 13.10s, beating Hipolito into second place.
In May 2014, Hahn"s world record was broken by Russia"s Margarita Goncharova. However, just 24 hours later, Hahn broke it back in Loughborough taking her personal best down to 13.04 in the process. The Loughborough-based athlete finished narrowly behind Goncharova in the 100m and the 400m - only her second run over the distance.
The quartet of Olivia Breen, Bethany Woodward, Hahn and Jenny McLoughlin were narrowly edged out by the Russian team in the T35-38 4x100m, but set a national record of 53.84 in the process.