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Georgia Helen Griffith (born 5 December 1996) is an Australian middle-distance runner.
Early years
Griffith in her mid-teens decided to take her athletics seriously and commenced regular training. Just days after her 17th birthday she won the 2013 Australian All Schools Championships 800m gold medal in a time of 2:09.[3]
Achievements
Griffith has represented Australia at the:
- 2014 World Junior Championships in Eugene (USA) in both the 800m and 4 × 400m relay. She placed 4th[4] in the 800m and made the finals[5] in the relay
- 2017 World Championships in London (UK) in both the 800m[6] and 1500m[7]
- 2017 World University Games in Taipei (Taiwan) in the 800m, where she came 4th[8]
- 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast (Australia) in both the 800m[9] and 1500m, where she came 5th[10] in 1500m
- 2019 World University Games in Naples (Italy) in the 1500m, where she came 2nd[11]
- 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha (Qatar) in the 1500m where she made the semi-finals[12]
- In 2021, she was selected to represent Australia at the Tokyo (Japan) Olympics in the 1500m[13] She came 14th in the heat with a time of 4:14.43.[14]
Her current personal bests are 2:00.13 for the 800m, [15] 3:59.04 for the 1500m,[15] and 8:24.20 AR for the 3000m. [16]
References
- ^ "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ^ "2017 Universiade bio". Archived from the original on 14 March 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ "Georgia Griffith". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "IAAF World Junior Championships 2014 | WJC 14 | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org.
- ^ "IAAF World Junior Championships 2014 | WJC 14 | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org.
- ^ "800 Metres Startlist | IAAF World Championships London 2017".
- ^ "1500 Metres Result | IAAF World Championships London 2017". www.worldathletics.org.
- ^ "29th Summer Universiade - Taipei City 2017 - Main Results". www.fisu.net.
- ^ "Athletics | Result Women's 800m Round 1 - Heat 3 - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games".
- ^ "Athletics | Result Women's 1500m Final - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com.
- ^ "30th Summer Universiade - Napoli 2019 - Main Results". www.fisu.net.
- ^ "1500 Metres Result | IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019". www.worldathletics.org.
- ^ "Biggest Australian Athletics Team for Overseas Olympics Finalised". www.athletics.com.au.
- ^ "Athletics GRIFFITH Georgia". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Georgia GRIFFITH | Profile". site.uat.aws.worldathletics.org.
- ^ "3000m result" (PDF). 30 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
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