![]() Abigail Pawlett at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | British (Welsh) | ||||||||||||||
Born | 14 January 2003 | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon, 100 metres hurdles | ||||||||||||||
Club | Trafford AC | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | Heptathlon 6320 (Bergen, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Abigail Pawlett (born 14 January 2003) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a multi-event athlete. In 2024, she became the English national indoors pentathlon champion, and national indoor champion in the 60 metres hurdles in 2025. [1]
From Chester, she attended Tarporley High School. She shared athletics at eight years-old at West Cheshire Athletics Club. She broke the British Indoor Under-17 heptathlon record in 2019 and broke the north-west girls’ heptathlon record as an Under-17 athlete, which had been held previously by Katarina Johnson-Thompson. [2]
Pawlett races for Trafford AC. [3] In 2021 she competed in Tallinn at the European U20 Championships in the heptathlon competition. [4]
In June 2023, she made her debut in a senior British vest, selected for the British team for the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships held in Chorzów, Silesia, Poland between 20 and 25 June 2023, in the 100 metres hurdles. [5]
Having won England combined events gold in every age group previously, [6] in January 2024, she became the English national indoors pentathlon senior champion. [7] During the competition she broke a 25 year-old English national record held by Julia Bennett in the 800 metres and a championship record tally of 4325 points. [8]
On 17 February 2024, she qualified for the final at the British national indoor championships in the 60 metres hurdles event, running 8.24 in the final in Birmingham to finish second behind Cindy Sember. On the same day she competed in the long jump and finished seventh overall. [9] She was subsequently selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, in which she finished ninth overall. [10] [11]
She set a new heptathlon personal best of 6011 at Götzis in May 2024. [12] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [13]
She won the 60 metres hurdles at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in February 2025. [14] [15] Competing as a Wales international, Pawlett finished third in the long jump at the Loughborough International with a personal best 6.17m in May 2025. She also set a personal best at the event in the 100 metres hurdles, with a time of 12.97 seconds. [16]
She lowered that time to 12.94 seconds at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis on 31 May 2025. She also ran a personal best 23.06 seconds for the 200 metres on that day before finishing in eighth place overall with an overall personal best sscore of 6315 points. [17] [18] She was selected for the 100m hurdles at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025. [19] She was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, where she won a silver medal in the heptathlon with a lifetime best of 6320 points. [20] [21] On 2 August, she finished second in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham, in 13.12 seconds. [22] She was provisionally selected as part of the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [23]
Her sister Emily is an England Netball youth international. [24] She began at Loughborough University in 2022. [25]