Phoebe Gill running in her heat of the women's 800 metres at the 2024
Paris Olympic Games, in which finished 3rd in 1:58.83. Her her semi-final.
two days, later she came 4th in 1:58.47. One second quicker would have
taken her into the Final *.
Her place in the British team, at the age of just seventeen, was as a consequence
of her winning the UK Championships in 1:58.66 and her amazing European Under-18 record
of 1:57.86* -set in Belfast on 11th May, just two weeks after her 17th birthday. Her time
beat the previous record of 1:59.65 set by East Germany’s Marion Geissler-Hübner,
45 years previously.