Georgia Bell

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Georgia Bell
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1993-10-17) 17 October 1993 (age 30)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Middle distance, Duathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)1500m:4:03.22 (Stockholm, 2024)
3000m: 8:42.16 (Val-de-Reuil, 2024)

Georgia Bell (born 17 October 1993) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a middle distance runner, and in the duathlon. In February 2024 she became British national indoor champion in the 1500 metres. [1]

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Early life

Bell was a high-achieving junior competitor, winning the English Schools title at under-15 level over 800 metres, and clocking a time of 2:08.81, which placed her eighth on the UK all-time list. She also won silver in the same championships as an under-17 in 2009. She studied geography at the University of Birmingham. [2] In 2015, after winning 2015 the BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport) indoor 800 meters title and silver at the England Athletics Under-23 Championships, she started at University of California, Berkeley. [3]

Career

A Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers athlete, [4] Bell returned to Britain from the United States, Bell became a training partner of Keely Hodgkinson, guided by Jenny Meadows and Trevor Painter. [5] In April 2023, she won the Duathlon World Championships in the female 30-34 age group, in Ibiza. [6] [7]

In 2023, she improved her personal bests over 1500m, 3000m and 5000m on the track, and set a new road 10k personal best in Telford, in December 2023. [8]

In January 2024, Bell ran a new personal best over 1500 metres, running 4:03.54 in winning the World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze event in Dortmund. [9] The following week, Bell beat pre-race favourite Sembo Almayew for victory over 3000m in Val-de-Reuil in another lifetime best time of 8:42.16. [10] In February 2024, she lowered her 1500m personal best to 4:03.22 in Stockholm. [11] On 18 February 2024, she won the final at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham of the 1500 metres to become British indoor champion. [12] [13]

She was selected to compete for Britain at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. [14] She qualified for the final of the women's 1500 metres race, with a time of 4:04.39. She finished fourth in the final with a time of 4:03.47. [15]

In May 2024, she finished sixth in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Doha Diamond League in a time of 4:03.72. [16]

Personal life

She works for a London-based firm that studies cyber attacks. She is the daughter of political journalist Andy Bell. [17] [18] [19]

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