| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 13 August 2005 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Middle distance |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 800m: 2:02.57 (Manchester, 2025) 1500m: 4:07.45 (Nice, 2025) Mile 4:43.59 (Loughborough, 2024) |
Ava Lloyd (born 13 August 2005) is a British middle-distance runner. She made her senior championship debut over 1500 metres for Great Britain at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. [1]
A Wigan and District athlete, and a member of Wigan Harriers, [2] she is also a member of the same M11 Track Club training group as British middle distance runners Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Bell, coached by Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows. [3]
She placed tenth at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel, with a 1500 metres time of 4:23.78. [4]
She ran 4:12.07 at the Watford BMC Grand Prix in June 2024 for the 1500 metres. [5] She reached the final of the 1500 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, placing fifth in the final. [6] [7] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [8]
She set a personal best indoor time of 4:12.59 for the 1500 metres at the Keeley Klassik on 16 February 2025 in Birmingham, England. [9] The following week, she placed qualified for the final and placed fifth overall in the 1500 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in a time of 4:17.52, on the same track in Birmingham. [10] [11] She was subsequently selected to make her major championship debut for the senior British team at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. [12] [13] Competing at the championships, she ran a time of 4:18.74 in her qualifying heat to finish in sixth place and did not proceed to the final. [14]
She was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, winning her 1500 metres semi-final in 4:14.55, before placing tenth in the final. [15] [16] [17] On 3 August, she placed fifth in the final of the 1500 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham. [18] Later that month, she ran the women’s 800m A race at the BMC Trafford Grand Prix in a new personal best of 2:02.57. [19]