Angela Cullen

Biography

Cullen was born in Devonport, New Zealand, on 5 August 1974. She played international field hockey for New Zealand between the ages of 15 and 21 and holds a degree in health science and physiotherapy. She worked as a senior physiotherapist at the English Institute of Sport in London, supporting the British Olympic team, UK Athletics, the British triathlon team, and other corporate clients. With the British Olympic team, she worked with 100 m and 200 m sprinters and the 4 × 100 m relay team, which won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.

In 2006 she undertook a cycle tour from Tierra del Fuego to Colombia, cycling up to 155 miles a day. She later served as a senior advisor for SPARC High Performance in New Zealand and also worked with the New Zealand Academy of Sport and Sport New Zealand. In 2015 she joined Hintsa Performance, and after the death of Aki Hintsa, a mentor to Hamilton, she became Hamilton's physiotherapist and assistant in 2016, also described as his chauffeur and confidante.

On 17 March 2023 it was announced that she was moving on and would no longer work alongside Hamilton. She then worked with Marcus Armstrong, who also hails from her homeland of New Zealand. During NBC's broadcast for the first-ever Thermal Club $1 Million Challenge event, the 50-year-old was spotted in the pit box of former Ferrari junior prospect Armstrong. Following Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari for 2025, she is working with him again.