The present British 800m champion produced a record-breaking efficiency over two laps finally 12 months’s version
Phoebe Gill will compete over 1500m at this 12 months’s Belfast Irish Milers Meet (Might 10).
Finally 12 months’s version, {the teenager} clocked 1:57.86 and broke Marion Geissler-Hübner’s 45-year-old European under-18 file within the course of.
Not solely did Gill decimate her private greatest by virtually 4 seconds however she additionally went contained in the Olympic 800m qualification commonplace of 1:59.30.
She then went on to safe the 800m title on the UK Athletics Championships and subsequently reached the semi-finals on the Olympics.
In an unique interview with AW again in December, Gill acknowledged that “I used to be very happy with myself for the way I dealt with the Video games” and “trying again, I didn’t assume that I’d be within the place that I’m in now”.
Natoya Goule leads with Phoebe Gill (left) (Getty)
The Brit will now goal to take a big chunk off her private greatest within the 1500m, which is the 4:05.87 she set in Watford final Might.
Gill, who remains to be 17, is at the moment third on the UK all-time 1500m listing within the under-20 class.
Solely Zola Budd (3:59.96) and Steph Twell (4:05.83) have gone faster in it, with the previous setting the nationwide 1500m junior file in 1985.
It’s set to be an enthralling 1500m race in Belfast as Gill will compete towards Jemma Reekie, who she beat on the best way to the nationwide 800m crown in Manchester.
{The teenager} additionally faces double European junior cross nation champion Innes FitzGerald and Ava Lloyd, who positioned fifth within the 1500m finally 12 months’s World U20 Championships in Peru.
Phoebe Gill (Getty)
The Mary Peters Observe in Belfast is notoriously fast and it’s unsurprising that meet entries offered out in simply quarter-hour.
Different notable athletes who might be competing embrace Erin Wallace, Callum Dodds, Sharlene Mawdsley, Isabelle Boffey and Tom Randolph.
Eamonn Christie, who’s the Race Director on the occasion, informed the BBC: “As soon as once more I’m overwhelmed at how shortly the occasion offered out. I’m delighted on the calibre of athletes who’ve entered, together with worldwide, nationwide and native athletes.
“Thus far we’ve got entries from Spain, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic in addition to Eire and Nice Britain.”
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