The present British 800m champion went beneath 54 seconds for the primary time ever in an indoor 400m
Phoebe Gill has demonstrated her velocity work within the 400m and began the observe and discipline season in type.
The reigning British 800m champion, who competed in three 400m races all through the entire of final 12 months, has already ticked two of them off in 2025.
On New Yr’s Day, Gill clocked 54.14 on the Lee Valley Open, an indoor mark that was a lot faster than her earlier better of 54.82.
The 17-year-old has now gone even quicker and, on the identical venue, recorded a time of 53.65 (January 18), which is a private indoor greatest within the 400m.
That places her fifth on the British under-20 indoor 400m all-time record – solely Amber Anning, Yemi Mary John, Emily Newnham and Laviai Nielsen have gone quicker domestically in that age class.
Phoebe Gill (Getty)
Gill did report a mark of 53.3 at a Southern Athletics League meet final July however that was outside.
Such a concentrate on the 400m in January highlights Gill’s ambition to enhance her velocity work within the 800m.
Final 12 months, she grew to become the youngest British observe athlete to compete on the Olympics in 40 years, securing her spot on the Video games by turning into the nationwide champion over two laps.
Gill had been making waves on the junior scene for some time – together with successful the 800m title on the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Video games – however final season’s outcomes catapulted her into the nationwide highlight.
Phoebe Gill [R] (Keith McClure)
On the Belfast Irish Milers Meet, she clocked 1:57.86 and broke Marion Geissler-Hübner’s 45-year-old European under-18 report within the course of.
Not solely had Gill decimated her private greatest by nearly 4 seconds however she additionally went contained in the Olympic 800m qualification commonplace of 1:59.30.
Gill reached the semi-finals on the Olympics and, in an unique interview with AW again in December, said that “I used to be very pleased with myself for a way I dealt with the Video games” and “wanting again, I didn’t suppose that I’d be within the place that I’m in now”.
Her rapid focus for 2025 is on her schooling and ending off her A-level exams – biology, chemistry and maths – in June.
The Tokyo World Championships being in September does enable respiratory house to start out her out of doors season in a while as nicely.
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