| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 9 December 1998 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Middle distance |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 800m: 2:02.19 (Los Angeles, 2025) 1500m: 4:06.12 (Los Angeles, 2024) Mile: 4:25.23 (Boston, 2024) 3000m: 8:54.67 (Sheffield, 2024) 5000m 15:51.15 (Raleigh, 2024) |
Ellie Leather (born 9 December 1998) is a British middle-distance runner. She was a bronze medalist at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships over 1500 metres. She is the great-niece of Diane Leather. [1]
Leather is a member of Westbury Harriers and Yate & District Athletics Club. She first competed for Westbury in 2008 in the under 11s age group in the Gwent League and the BMC Cross Country Classic in Ashton Court. [2] She attended Marlwood School in South Gloucestershire. [3] She competed in the American college system for Rice University and Cincinnati University on a sporting scholarship. [4] [5] [6]
In March 2021, she ran a personal best time of 4:41.78 for the mile run at the 2021 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Houston, Texas. [7] The following year, she finished third in the mile at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships, in Birmingham, Alabama. [8]
In the summer of 2022, she signed a professional endorsement contract with Under Armour. [9] Competing at the 2022 British Athletics Championship, she was a finalist in the 1500 metres after winning her qualifying heat, placing eighth overall. In 2022, she lowered her personal best to 4:11.33 for the 1500m, and 4:34.89 for the mile. [10]
In January 2024, Leather won the 3000 metres race at the BMC Meeting in Sheffield, with a half-minute personal best time of 8:54.67. [11] In February 2024, she improved her personal best to 4:25.23 at the BU Invitational Mile in Boston, Massachusetts to move to fifth place on the UK indoor all-time mile list. [12] On 17 February 2024, she qualified again for the final at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, in the 1500 metres. [13]
Leather ran a new 1500 metres personal best time of 4:06.12 in Los Angeles on 17 May 2024. In June 2024, she qualified for the final of the 1500 metres at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in which she placed sixth. [14]
She won bronze over 1500 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025, behind Georgia Bell and Revée Walcott-Nolan. [15] [16]
In May 2025, she set a new personal best for the 800 metres, running 2:02.19 in Los Angeles. [17] [18]
She is the great-niece of Diane Leather, the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile. [19]