Phoebe Gill

Phoebe Gill
Personal information
NationalityEnglish
Born (2007-04-27) 27 April 2007 (age 17)
St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Sport
SportAthletics
Event800m
ClubSt Albans AC
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m: 53.3 (St. Albans, 2024)
800m: 1:57.86 (Belfast, 2024)
1500m: 4:11.96 (Watford, 2023)
1500m: 4:05.87 (Watford, 2024 - mixed gender)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  England
Commonwealth Youth Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Port of Spain 800 m

Phoebe Gill (born 27 April 2007) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a middle-distance runner. In 2023, she became the British under-17 record holder over both 800 metres and 1500 metres. On 30 June 2024 she won the British 800 metres title at the national championships. Phoebe also claimed the European Under-18 record holder for 800 metres in 2024.[2]

Early life

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Gill is from St Albans in Hertfordshire.[3] She was initially focused on swimming before turning her attentions towards athletics.[4] She attends St George's School, Harpenden and became a member of St Albans Athletics Club at under-11 level.[5]

Career

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2022

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Coached by Deborah Steer at St Albans Athletic Club,[6] Gill set the fifth fastest British U17 age group 800m time in May 2022, running 2:03.74 at the Watford Open Graded Meeting. This placed her ahead of Keely Hodgkinson at the same age and was the fastest by a British U17 athlete since Jessica Warner-Judd in 2011.[7] In August 2022, Gill ran a 1500m time of 4:14.08 which became the fastest ever in the under-17 age group, ran in the UK.[8]

2023

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Gill won the English schools title over 800m in July 2023.[9][10] In July 2023, Gill broke Warner-Judd's U17 British record for the 1500m, when she ran 4:11.96 at the BMC Watford Gold Standard meeting.[11]

Gill was selected to represent England at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in August 2023.[12] She clocked a time of 2:02:30 to win gold in the 800m, the fastest time by a British U17 female athlete since Jo White in 1977.[13]

Racing in Britain again later in August 2023, she set a new British U17 record for the 800 metres, running 2:01.50 in Watford.[14]

2024

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On 1 January 2024, Gill took more than three seconds off of her indoor 400m personal best, running 54.82 in Lee Valley (mixed gender).[15]

On 1 May 2024 (4 days after turning 17), Gill ran 4:05.87 at 1500m in a Watford Open Graded Meeting (mixed gender), improving her personal best by over 6 seconds. This ranked her as the 3rd fastest all-time Female U20 in the UK for 1500m, behind Zola Budd (3:59.96 - 30 August 1985) and Stephanie Twell (4:05.83 - 18 July 2008) [16]

On 11 May 2024, Gill ran 1:57.86 at 800m in Belfast, to break the European Under-18 record of 1:59.65 set by East Germany’s Marion Geissler-Hübner 45 years previously. The time also met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Olympic Games and moved her to joint second place in 2024 world 800m ranking.[17]

She was invited to run for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in June 2024 but declined, opting to study for her school exams instead.[18] Later that month, she won the 800m title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester.[19][20] On 5 July 2024, she was named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics[21] where she came fourth in her semi-final in a time of 1:58.47 and did not advance to the final.[22] In October 2024, she was nominated by Athletics Weekly for best British female junior.[23]

References

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  1. ^ "GILL Phoebe | Paris 2024". olympics.com. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Phoebe Gill". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  3. ^ Metcalfe, Neil (10 November 2022). "St Albans athletes at national cross-country and NY Marathon". Hertsad.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  4. ^ Heath, Georgie (5 October 2023). "Phoebe Gill: "Kelly Holmes is a massive inspiration"". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  5. ^ Westerby, John (18 May 2024). "Phoebe Gill: the schoolgirl sensation storming into Olympic contention". The Times. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Trinbago 2023: The rise and rise of Phoebe Gill". Teamengland.org. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  7. ^ Bland, Gill (22 May 2022). "Diamond League action & McColgan breaks European 10km record". Fastrunning.com. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  8. ^ Smythe, Steve (23 August 2022). "Fast times for prodigious Phoebe Gill and Corey Campbell". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  9. ^ Adams, Tim (3 July 2023). "Five takeaways from the English Schools Champs". Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  10. ^ Metcalfe, Neil (6 July 2023). "Phoebe Gill gets England call after school championship win". Herts Advertiser. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  11. ^ Adams, Tim (13 July 2023). "Phoebe Gill takes apart UK U17 1500m record". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  12. ^ "Team England athletes selected for Trinidad and Tobago 2023". England Athletics. 4 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  13. ^ Adams, Tim (11 August 2023). "Phoebe Gill stars to win Commonwealth Youth Games 800m title". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  14. ^ Rhodes, James (29 August 2023). "Brilliant Budapest – Weekend(ish) Round Up". Fastrunning.com. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  15. ^ Smythe, Steve (2 January 2024). "Phoebe Gill in good form – indoor round-up". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  16. ^ "Phoebe Gill, just 17, ran 4:05.87 for 1500m in a mixed race in Watford on Wednesday night". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  17. ^ "England's Gill, 17, breaks 45-year-old 800m record". BBC Sport. 11 May 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  18. ^ Broadbent, Rick (28 May 2024). "Phoebe Gill turns down European Championships to study for exams". The Times. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  19. ^ Bloom, Ben (30 June 2024). "17-year-old Phoebe Gill 'in a dream' after storming to place in Olympic team". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  20. ^ "ASHER-SMITH, HUDSON-SMITH AND GILL AMONG OLYMPIC CONTENDERS TO LIGHT UP UK CHAMPS". British Athletics. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  21. ^ "TEAM GB ATHLETICS SQUAD CONFIRMED FOR PARIS 2024". GB Athletics. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  22. ^ "St Albans' Phoebe Gill misses out on 800m Olympic final". The Herts Advertiser. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  23. ^ Henderson, Jason (30 October 2024). "Vote for your athletes of 2024". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
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