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| Birth name | Abigail Ives | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:59.92 (Belfast, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Abigail Ives (born 9 February 2004) is a British middle distance runner. [1]
From Essex, she is a member of Basildon Athletic Club. She won her first age-group county cross-country championships for Basildon AC in 2015 when she was 13 years-old. [2] She attended Coopers' Company and Coborn School in Upminster. In 2015, she won the individual age-group title at the National finals of the Cross-Country Cup in Bedford. [3]
She was selected to represent Britain at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships. [4] She went into the championship with an 800 metres best of 2:01.88. [5] She won her semifinal with a run of 2:01.92, before going on to place sixth in the final. [6]
In February 2023, she won bronze at the 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham over 800 metres. [7] In May 2023, she ran a 800 metres personal best time of 1:59.92 in Belfast, becoming just the fourth British U20 athlete to break the two-minute barrier at the distance. [8] In August 2023, she won silver at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem in the 800 metres. She was later voted the Athletics Weekly British Female Under-20 Athlete of the Year. [9]
In May 2024, she won the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) 800 metres title, competing for the University of Birmingham. [10] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [11]
Her older sister Isobel Ives also competes as a middle-distance runner, combining it with work as a civil engineer in Chelmsford. [12]
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