Английская Википедия:Georgia Bell

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Georgia Bell (born 17 October 1993) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a middle distance runner, and in the duathlon. In February 2024 she became British national indoor champion in the 1500 metres.

Early life

Bell was a high-achieving junior competitor, winning the English Schools title at under-15 level over 800 metres, and clocking a time of 2:08.81, which placed her eighth on the UK all-time list. She also won silver in the same championships as an under-17 in 2009. She studied geography at the University of Birmingham. In 2015, after winning 2015 the BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport) indoor 800 meters title and silver at the England Athletics Under-23 Championships, she started at University of California, Berkeley.

Career

A Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers athlete, Bell returned to Britain from the United States, Bell became a training partner of Keely Hodgkinson, guided by Jenny Meadows and Trevor Painter. In April 2023, she won the Duathlon World Championships in the female 30-34 age group, in Ibiza.

In 2023, she improved her personal bests over 1500m, 3000m and 5000m on the track, and set a new road 10k personal best in Telford, in December 2023.

In January 2024, Bell ran a new personal best over 1500 metres, running 4:03.54 in winning the World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze event in Dortmund. The following week, Bell beat pre-race favourite Sembo Almayew for victory over 3000m in Val-de-Reuil in another lifetime best time of 8:42.16. In February 2024, she lowered her 1500m personal best to 4:03.22 in Stockholm. On 18 February 2024, she won the final at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham of the 1500 metres to become British indoor champion.

She was selected to compete for Britain at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. She qualified for the final of the women's 1500 metres race, with a time of 4:04.39. She finished fourth in the final with a time of 4:03.47.

Personal life

She works for a London-based firm that studies cyber attacks. She is the daughter of political journalist Andy Bell.