Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Born | 15 March 1998 |
Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Long distance running |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests |
Lauren Ryan (born 15 March 1998) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes as a long-distance runner. She is the Australian national record holder over 10,000m. [1]
From Melbourne, Ryan attended Geelong Grammar School. [2] Competing for Florida State University she finished fourth in the 3000m at the NCAA Indoor Championships in 2022. [3]
Based in Baltimore, Maryland, [4] Ryan made her Australian senior team debut at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships. [5]
She was selected to represent Australia in the 5000m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023 [6] and, in October 2023, Ryan represented Australia at the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships held in Riga, Latvia. She then won the Pandora 10k in Baltimore. [7]
Ryan won the Australian title over 10,000m in Melbourne in December 2023, running 32:54.00. [8]
On 27 January 2024, competing in Boston, Massachusetts, she set a new Australian indoor 5000m record of 15:17:79. The following week, she ran a new 3000m personal best time of 8:42.31, which elevated her to the No. 2 indoor performer in her country’s history behind only Jessica Hull. [9] Ryan ran 14:57.67 for 5,000m at the oversized Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle on 23 February 2024.
In March 2024, she set a new Australian national record time in the 10,000m, running 30:35.66 in San Juan Capistrano, California, taking two seconds from the previous record set 20 years earlier by Benita Willis. [10]
She competed in the 10,000m at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, placing 13th in the final. [11] [12] She also competed in the 5000m at the Games without advancing to the final. [13]
On 15 February 2025, Ryan ran her 3000m personal best at the 2025 Boston University Valentine Invitational, finishing in 8:41:80, just 0.03 seconds ahead of the second place finisher Doris Lemngole. [14] [15] She set a new personal best at the 2025 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, in Poland, with a run of 8:37.56 for the 3000 metres. [16]