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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 April 2002 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 1500m: 4:04.98 (2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shannon Flockhart (born 5 April 2002) is a British middle distance runner. [1]
From Cambridge, in 2016 she won school middle distance titles in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia. [2] That year, she also finished in the top 10 of the English schools cross-country championships in her age group. [3] She went on to win the senior girls title at the Cambridgeshire schools cross country championships in January 2020 before placing fourth in the senior girls English cross country championship in March 2020 in Liverpool. [4] [5]
She is a member of Cambridge & Coleridge Athletic Club. [6] She was a bronze medalist in the 1500 metres at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo. [7] [8]
In June 2024, she placed sixth overall in the 1500 metres at the NCAA Division 1 Finals in Eugene, Oregon, competing for Providence College. [9]
In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [10] On 23 November 2024, she was part of the Providence team which finished third in the 2024 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships. [11]
[12] In 2024 she completed an undergraduate degree in Political Science at Providence College in Rhode Island before starting a Masters in Education at the establishment. [13]
Blake Russell is an American long-distance runner who represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After finishing third in the marathon at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, she went on to finish 27th in the Olympic marathon in Beijing. She was the only American woman to finish the Beijing Olympic Marathon. She is a many time USA National Champion in Cross Country and the USA Road Racing Circuit over various distances.
Shannon Solares-Rowbury is an American middle-distance runner from San Francisco, California. After competing collegiately for Duke University, she turned professional in 2007. Rowbury has represented the United States at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in 2012, becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the event. She also represented the United States at the World Championships in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, winning the bronze medal in the 1500 meters in 2009. In 2015, Rowbury helped set the world record with the U.S. team for the distance medley relay event, and set a then-American record for 1500 meters on July 17, 2015, breaking Mary Slaney's 32 year-old mark with a time of 3:56.29.
Jennifer Simpson is a retired American middle- and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 1500 meters at the 2011 World Championships, silvers at the 2013 and 2017 World Championships, and a bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Kate Avery is a British long-distance runner. She competes in track and road competitions but specialises in cross country running. She was twice silver medallist at the 2014 European Cross Country Championships and 2015, and also a gold medallist on both occasions as part of the Great Britain women's senior team. She became the first British woman to win the NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship in 2014, running for Iona College.
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Sophie O'Sullivan is an Irish athlete. She won a silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr, Hungary. O'Sullivan won 1500 metres gold at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland. She represents the Washington Huskies at the University of Washington in NCAA track and field competitions.
Elinor Purrier St. Pierre, better known as Elle Purrier St. Pierre, is an American track and field athlete who specializes in middle-distance and long-distance running. She won a gold medal in the 3000 meters at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Purrier is a two-time Olympian for the United States, making the final in the 1500m at both the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.
Jessica Jolliffe is an Australian middle and long distance runner. She won a silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Hull is a four-time national champion for Australia, with two titles in the 1500 m and two in the 5000 metres. She graduated from the University of Oregon, where she was a two-time individual NCAA Division I champion, and has run professionally for Nike since 2019.
Rachel Smith is an American middle- and long-distance runner. She competed collegiately for Georgetown University. Smith represented the United States at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha and at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.
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