At the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, she came fourteenth in the junior race and helped the British girls to fourth in the team rankings.[8] She secured her first international track medal at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships by winning the 5000m silver in Novi Sad.[9] She also began to prove herself in the senior ranks that year – at the national championships she took the runner-up spot in the 5000m behind Freya Murray and came fourth at the Great Yorkshire Run in September with a 10K best of 33:07 minutes.[1][10] The 18-year-old suffered an injury in November (a knee stress fracture) which ruled her out until the middle of 2010.[11] This meant she missed both the European and World Cross Country Championships, as well as the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
Purdue returned to competition in June 2010, coming seventh in the 10,000 metres national championship race.[1] That August she improved her 5000m personal best to 15:23.4 and also bettered her 10,000m mark with a run of 32:36.75 (a junior record for the United Kingdom).[12] She earned selection for both events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. After a second-place finish at the Yorkshire Run,[1] she headed to New Delhi where she came fourth in the 10,000m final and sixth in the 5000m.[13] She won the junior race at the European Cross Trials in Liverpool in November and went on to take the individual and team titles in the junior race at the 2010 European Cross Country Championships.[14] In her last year as a junior runner, she easily won the competition with seventeen seconds to spare over the runner-up.[15]
She did not compete from July 2012 until October 2013. Having recovered from injury, she returned at the Great South Run and managed third place at the ten-mile race with a time of 56:57 minutes.[24]
On 7 September 2014, she set a personal best for the half marathon 1:14:43 on the course of the Great North Run.[25]
On 24 April 2016, Purdue completed her first full marathon distance having run the 2016 London Marathon. As a part of the women elite group she took 16th place overall and third among the British competitors with the time of 2:32:48.[26]
On 23 April 2017, Purdue ran her personal best time in the marathon at the London Marathon in two hours and 29 minutes and 23 seconds, finishing second Brit behind Alison Dixon.
On 6 August 2017, Purdue finished 13th at the IAAF World Championships in London in a time of 2:29:48 and was the first British female across the line.
Charlotte Purdue competing in 2019 London Half Marathon.
On 2 February 2019, Purdue set a new personal best for the half marathon, clocking 1:09:46 at Marugame in Japan.[27]
Having won the inaugural event the previous year, on 10 March 2019, Purdue won the Vitality Big Half London half marathon in a time of 1:10:38.[28] In 2021, she won the event for a third time.[29]
On 3 October 2021, Purdue moved to third on the British all-time list running 2:23.26 at the 2021 London Marathon.
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