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Born | 27 June 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 100m: 11.68s (2024) 200m: 23.00s (2025) 400m: 52.85s (2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Carla Bull (born 27 June 2002) is an Australian sprinter. She helped set an Oceania record in the Mixed 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Relays, as part of an Australian silver medal winning team. [1]
From Hervey Bay in Queensland, she attended Fraser Coast Anglican College. Growing up, she was a member of Hervey Bay Surf Life Saving Club. [2]
Bull moved from her hometown of Hervey Bay to the Gold Coast in 2020 to pursue physiotherapy studies and train under sprint coach Brett Robinson. She won Stawell Gift handicapped race in April 2022, in a time of 13.77 seconds from Clare De Salis and backmarker Mia Gross. [3] [4] [5]
She was selected for the Australian relay pool for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China in May 2025. [6] On the first day she ran as part of the Mixed 4 x 400 metres relay which finished in the top-two in their heat to secure qualification for the 2025 World Championships. [7] On the second day, she ran as part of the Australian Mixed 4x400 metres relay team which finished second overall behind the United States in 3:12.20, setting a new Oceania record alongside Terrell Thorne, Ellie Beer and Luke van Ratingen. [8] On the same evening she ran as a member of Australia’s Mixed 4x100m quartet alongside Olivia Dodds, Connor Bond and Josiah John who had a fourth-place finish in a time of 41.22 in the inaugural final of the event at the Championships. [9] [10]