Phoebe Gill

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Phoebe Gill
Personal information
NationalityEnglish
Born (2007-04-27) 27 April 2007 (age 17)
St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event800m
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m: 53.3 (St. Albans, 2024)
800m: 1:57.86 (Belfast, 2024)
1500m: 4:11.96 (Watford, 2023)
1500m: 4:05.87 (Watford, 2024 - mixed gender)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Youth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Port of Spain 800 m

Phoebe Gill (born 27 April 2007) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a middle-distance runner. In 2023, she became the British under-17 record holder over both 800 metres and 1500 metres. On 30th June 2024 she won the British 800 metres title at the national championships. Phoebe also claimed the European Under-18 record holder for 800 metres in 2024. [1]

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Early life

Gill is from St Albans in Hertfordshire. [2] She was initially focused on swimming before turning her attentions towards athletics. [3] She attends St George's School, Harpenden and became a member of St Albans Athletics Club at under-11 level. [4]

Career

2022

Coached by Deborah Steer at St Albans Athletic Club, [5] Gill set the fifth fastest British U17 age group 800m time in May 2022, running 2:03.74 at the Watford Open Graded Meeting. This placed her ahead of Keely Hodgkinson at the same age and was the fastest by a British U17 athlete since Jessica Warner-Judd in 2011. [6] In August 2022, Gill ran a 1500m time of 4:14.08 which became the fastest ever in the under-17 age group, ran in the UK. [7]

2023

Gill won the English schools title over 800m in July 2023. [8] [9] In July 2023, Gill broke Warner-Judd's U17 British record for the 1500m, when she ran 4:11.96 at the BMC Watford Gold Standard meeting. [10]

Gill was selected to represent England at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in August 2023. [11] She clocked a time of 2:02:30 to win gold in the 800m, the fastest time by a British U17 female athlete since Jo White in 1977. [12]

Racing in Britain again later in August 2023, she set a new British U17 record for the 800 metres, running 2:01.50 in Watford. [13]

2024

On 1 January 2024, Gill took more than three seconds off of her indoor 400m personal best, running 54.82 in Lee Valley (mixed gender). [14]

On 1st May 2024 (4 days after turning 17), Gill ran 4:05.87 at 1500m in a Watford Open Graded Meeting (mixed gender), improving her personal best by over 6 seconds. This ranked her as the 3rd fastest all-time Female U20 in the UK for 1500m, behind Zola Budd (3:59.96 - 30th August 1985) and Stephanie Twell (4:05.83 - 18th July 2008) [15]

On 11th May 2024, Gill ran 1:57.86 at 800m in Belfast, to break the European Under-18 record of 1:59.65 set by East Germany’s Marion Geissler-Hübner 45 years previously. The time also met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Olympic Games and moved her to joint second place in 2024 world 800m ranking. [16]

She was invited to run for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in June 2024 but declined, opting to study for her school exams instead. [17] Later that month, she won the 800m title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester. [18] [19] On 5 July 2024, she was named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [20]

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  11. ↑ "Team England athletes selected for Trinidad and Tobago 2023". England Athletics. 4 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
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  15. ↑ "Phoebe Gill, just 17, ran 4:05.87 for 1500m in a mixed race in Watford on Wednesday night". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
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