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Kate GRACE

Kate GRACE - U.S.A. - Winner British Grand Prix-Diamond League

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 13 July 2021

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Monday, 24 October 1988
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      U.S.A.
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • U.S.A.
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Kate GRACE - U.S.A. - Winner British Grand Prix-Diamond League

Kate Grace leading the women's one mile race as they enter the finish straight.

She won the event, named after Millicent Fawcett, thus adding another first place

to the one she had thirteen days earlier at the Bislett Diamond League.

Where, in Oslo, she won the 800m in 1:57.60.


Women's one mile.

Gateshead International Stadium.

Diamond League / British Grand Prix meeting.


1. Kate GRACE                               USA 4:27.20

2. Katie SNOWDEN                        GBR 4:28.04

3. Helen SCHLACHTERHAUFEN   USA 4:28.13

4. Marta PÉREZ                              ESP 4:28.24

5. Winnie NANYONDO                   UGA 4:29.08

6. Sarah HEALY                              IRL  4:29.38

 

Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929) was an English politician, writer and feminist.

In 2018, 100 years after the Representation of the People Act,

she became the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square, London.