 2025 UK Athletics Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 30 December 2000 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Middle distance runner |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 800m: 2:01.21 (Belfast, 2024) |
Grace Vans Agnew (born 30 December 2000) is a British middle-distance runner. She was runner-up over 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships. [1]
She is from Sussex. [2] She was schooled at Millfield in Somerset. [3] She later studied sport and exercise at St Mary's University, Twickenham in London. [4]
Running for Ouse Valley in the 400 metres hurdles, she won the bronze medals respectively at the South of England championships in 2019. [2] That year, at the Sussex Track and Field Championship she set a county record for the U20 women’s 400 hurdles, running 62.05 seconds. [5]
In May 2024, she ran a new personal best time of 2:01.21 for the 800 metres whilst competing in Belfast. [6] That month, she was selected to represent England at the Loughborough International. [7] In June 2024, she finished in fifth place at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester over 80 metres. [8]
She set an indoor 800 metres personal best of 2:02.81 in February 2025 in Lee Valley, London. [9] [10] She finished second behind Isabelle Boffey in the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in a time of 2:04.28. [11] [12] She won the women’s 800m B-race in an indoor best of 2:02.20 at the Madrid World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting on 28 February 2025, in Spain. [13]
She was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. [14] [15] Competing in the 800 metres at the championships, she ran a time of 2:08.87 in her qualifying heat to finish in third place and did not progress to the semi-finals. [16]
On 3 August, she finished in fifth place in the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham. [17]