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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 March 1998 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800: 1:57.83 (Shanghai, 2025) 1500 m: 3:59.24 (Rome, 2025) Mile: 4:32.30 (Whanganui, 2023) 3000 m: 8:47.11 (Sydney, 2024) 5000 m: 15:41.41 (Melbourne, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Sarah Billings (born 7 March 1998) is a track and field athlete from Australia. She is a former national champion over 1500 metres. [1]
She attended Melbourne University. [2] [3] Billings grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Kew and attended Ruyton Girls School.
Billings competed at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in the 800 metres and 4 × 400 m relay. [4] The following year, she won the national U20 title over 800 metres. [5] She won the Australian national 1500 metres title in Melbourne in December 2019. [6] [7] However, a string of injuries limited her to just four races over the two-year period of 2020–2021. [8]
She was a pacemaker at the Diamond League event in Stockholm in 2022. [9] In November 2022, she won the Victorian 5000 m Championships at Box Hill, Victoria. [10] In February 2023, she ran a personal best of 4:32.30 for the mile to finish second at the Cooks Classic Mile in Wanganui. [11] In June 2023, she acted as a pacemaker for Beatrice Chebet to break a 24-year old meet record at the Diamond League event in Oslo. [12]
She ran a personal best of 4:38.97 for the road Mile at the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga. [13]
In April 2024, she finished fourth in the woman's 1500 m at the Australian Athletics Championships. The following week she set a new personal best of 3:59.59 for the distance, inside the Olympic qualifying time for the 2024 Games in Paris, at the 2024 Xiamen Diamond League. [14] [15] She won the 1500 m at the World Continental Tour Gold event in Tokyo on 19 May 2024. [16]
She was selected for the 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025. [17] She finished second at the Australian Athletics Championships over 1500 metres in 4:11.51 on 12 April 2025. [18] She ran a personal best 2:33.45 for the 1000 metres at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025. [19] Competing at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League, she ran a personal best 1:57.83 to place second in the women's 800 m race. [20] On 6 June 2025, she finished second over 1500 metres at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome, part of the 2025 Diamond League, running 3:59.24. [21] She ran a 2:33.17 personal best over 1000 metres in Monaco at the 2025 Herculis. [22] She placed seventh in the 800 metres at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August. [23] In September 2025, she competed over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the semi-finals. [24] [25]
Her brother Jack Billings is a former AFL player for St Kilda and Melbourne. [26]
