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| Born | 18 December 1997 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle-distance running | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| National finals | 800 m champion (2023, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 800 m: 2:00.81 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Alison Andrews-Paul (born 18 December 1997) is a New Zealand middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in the 800 metres. [1]
She set a personal best time for the 800 metres of 2:06.32 at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Poland. [2] After which, she won the 2016 Wairarapa Senior Sports Personality award. [3] Although injury and illness hampered her progress, her personal best was broken when running 2:01.43 in Azusa, California in April 2022, by which stage she was being coached by Brit Townsend. [2] She won the 2023 New Zealand Athletics Championships title over 800 metres in Wellington in March 2023. [4]
She set a personal best of 4:37.86 in the mile run indoors at the Husky Classic in Seattle in February 2024. [5] That year, she retained the New Zealand Athletics Championships title over 800 metres, and ran her second fastest time ever in May 2024 of 2:02.11 whilst racing in Los Angeles. [6] She won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji in June 2024, running a time of 2:03.94. [7] She had been named the New Zealand women's team captain for the Games. [3]
In 2025, she ran a personal best of 2:00.81 in Boston, Massachusetts. [8] In March 2025, she was named in the New Zealand team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing. [9]
Her hometown is Masterton, [2] and she attended Wairarapa College, [10] and Baylor University in Texas. She was later based in Canada in Burnaby, British Colombia, and completed a master's degree in public health at Simon Fraser University, graduating in 2022. [2]
