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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:43.48 (2024) 3000m: 7:59.99 (2024) 5000m: 13:51.24 (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Edward Bird (born 11 January 2005) is a British long distance runner. He was a bronze medalist at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships over 3000 metres. [1]
He was a bronze medalist at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships over 3000 metres. [2] That year, he finished inside the top 10 at the 2022 European Cross Country Championships in the under-20 race in Italy. [3]
In the February or the following year, he was selected to compete at the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia. [4] He was first British man to finish in the men’s U20 race, placing eighteenth and helped the British team to a fifth overall finish in the team event. [5]
He won a bronze medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships over 3000 metres. [6] [7] In November 2024, he was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [8]
From Dorset, he is a member of Poole Athletics Club. [9] [10] He attends the University of Kentucky. [11]
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal is a Norwegian middle-, long-distance and steeplechase runner. She is a European Championships gold medallist in half marathon, silver medallist in 5000 metres and bronze medallist in 10,000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase. Grøvdal is a four-time Olympian and represented Norway at the 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.
Jacob Kiplimo is a Ugandan long-distance runner. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and the 2022 World Athletics Championships, Kiplimo won a bronze medal in the 10,000 m events. Kiplimo won gold medals in the 5000 m and 10,000 m events at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and he won a silver and gold medal at the 2019 and 2023 World Cross Country Championships, respectively. He was also the winner of the 2020 World Half Marathon, and is the former world record holder in the half marathon, which he held from 2021 to 2024 with a time of 57:31.
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Will Barnicoat is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. He was European U20 cross country champion in 2022, and became European U23 cross country champion in 2023.
Abbie Donnelly is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. She was a bronze medalist in the individual and gold medalist in the team event at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships.She won gold in the team half marathon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Emily Newnham is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for Great Britain as a sprinter and a hurdler.
Success Eduan is a British sprinter. She won the 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships over 200 metres title.
Jeriel Quainoo is a British sprinter.
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