Tagoe’s extraordinary range of talents also includes being signed to an international model agency, while she recently took up surfing.
“Right now, I’m a pottery maker – I can make pots, vases, cups, mugs, everything.”
But athletics has always been the arena in which she was most determined to succeed.
Moving to a new training base in Houston, Texas, in 2021 has helped to deliver 100m and 200m personal bests of 11.43 and 23.80 seconds respectively.
“The sun and my coach and just the new environment really helped me and I just gradually started being myself again,” she said.
“The first year that I came here, I was running so slow, but I was so happy because I was running healthy.”
Just as happy was her mum Harriet, knowing that all of the hurdles they went through were paying dividends.
“We didn’t think all this hard work and years of pain would ever come to this,” Annie said.
“I know I can run a huge PB. You heard it here first.”