Phoebe Gill will lead the Nice Britain and Northern Eire staff at this 12 months’s European Beneath-18 Championships in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia (July 18-21).
The 17-year-old has had a season to recollect to this point, with the head being her European under-18 800m report, set on the Belfast Irish Milers Meet (Might 11).
She clocked 1:57.86 and largely ran the second lap on her personal, beating the likes of Erin Wallace and Abigail Ives by greater than two seconds.
In doing so, Gill smashed the European under-18 mark of 1:59.65, set by East Germany’s Marion Geissler-Hübner in 1979.
The Brit additionally grew to become the second quickest under-18 feminine athlete over the gap in historical past. Solely China’s Wang Yuan, who ran 1:57.18 in 1993, has gone faster.
Maybe much more impressively, Gill then backed up that 1:57.86 with a 1:58.07 victory on the British Milers Grand Prix in Manchester on Might 25.
That is how Phoebe Gill set an unbelievable European U18 800m report 🔥
She ran the race gun-to-tape in Belfast, clocking 1:57.86 🇬🇧
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Gill is ready to compete within the 800m and medley relay on the European Beneath-18 Championships.
Given she has now gone beneath the Olympic 800m commonplace twice, {the teenager} additionally is aware of a high two end at this weekend’s UK Athletics Championships – doubling up because the trials for the Video games – might seal a spot in Paris.
It would imply that Gill competes in Slovakia after which runs on the Olympics lower than a fortnight later, with the athletics motion within the French capital going down between August 1-11.
Becoming a member of Gill over the 800m on the European Beneath-18 Championships is Shaikira King, who’s second within the 2024 European under-18 standings after her 2:02.60 clocking earlier this season.
One other athlete who presently goes into the occasion because the European chief is Jake Odey-Jordan within the males’s 200m. The US-based athlete clocked 20.55 in Philadelphia earlier in June.
Thea Brown, the proficient mixed occasions athlete from Sale Harriers, goes within the heptathlon.
Iwan Thomas goes into the championships in advantageous kind after a latest 5:49.17 within the 2000m steeplechase. He’s joined by Dillon Millard within the occasion.
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Lyla Belshaw [women’s 1500m], Olivia Forrest [women’s 3000m], Matthew McKenna [men’s 800m] and Daisy Snell [women’s long jump] are all second within the 2024 European U18 lists, including additional firepower to the squad heading to Slovakia.
British Athletics staff chief Darren Ritchie: “Congratulations to the athletes and their help networks on incomes choice for the championships. This competitors is a vital step on this early a part of the pathway, so this will likely be an important studying expertise for all of the athletes chosen.
“I want all of them the perfect of their preparations and I stay up for seeing them carry out on the monitor and within the subject subsequent month.”
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