Who is Angela Cullen? Who’s the blonde woman behind Lewis Hamilton’s success
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Lewis Hamilton and Angela Cullen
Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton is arguably the greatest racer to grace the sport of Formula 1. In his stellar wins over the past 6 years, there’s always a blonde woman cheering for him in the Mercedes garage, his friend and physiotherapist Angela Cullen.
Cullen is responsible for Lewis Hamilton’s daily routine, personal logistics, diet, sleep patterns, travel arrangements and more.
Who is Angela Cullen? Find out more about Lewis Hamilton’s physiotherapist
Angela Cullen was born in New Zealand and developed a passion for a myriad of sports right from childhood. Any competitive sport, netball, soccer, cricket, volleyball, basketball, Cullen found her intrigue.
However, it was field hockey that got her introduced to high-performance sports. Cullen represented New Zealand in field hockey between the ages of 15 and 21. It is worth noting that the New Zealander has a degree in health science and physiotherapy.
The late great Dr Aki Hintsa’s ‘Hintsa Performance’ had a new recruit in 2014 – Cullen. It was after his death in 2016, that Cullen joined hands with Lewis Hamilton.
Cullen also worked with Track and Field athletes before entering F1. She shared about the same. “Initially, my work was primarily with 100 and 200-meter sprinters, although I worked across all track and field athletes, endurance athletes and the British triathlon team.”
She continued: “You could say that the 100 and 200-meter sprinters are the F1 of athletics. And my role was like the engineer or mechanic working closely with the athlete; fine-tuning their body to optimise their performance in terms of speed, power, mobility and control.”
“This was an amazing opportunity to learn about achieving ultimate body performance. I worked alongside some of the world’s best physiotherapists with some of the world’s best athletes. Working trackside before, during and after training sessions, constantly monitoring, mobilising and adjusting the body to achieve maximal speeds.”
How long are Lewis Hamilton and Angela Cullen working together?
New Zealand-born Angela Cullen began working with Hamilton at the start of the 2016 season and the 7-time champion has always acknowledged Cullen’s impact on his performance.
“People for sure won’t understand it, naturally, because they see it from a distance, but she has been one of the greatest things that’s happened to me in my life,” said Hamilton. “I’ve been fortunate to work with a lot of people… and she’s the single hardest-working woman that I get to be around.”
The Hamilton-Cullen duo seems to be working just fine. They share a lot of mutual respect for each other as evident in their interviews. It sure is a professional match made in heaven!
Also read: “So proud of y’all” – Lewis Hamilton offers words of consolation to Neymar and Dani Alves following Brazil’s shock defeat to Croatia at Qatar World Cup
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