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.[2] 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.[3]
Career
A Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers athlete,[4] Bell returned to Britain from the United States, Bell became a training partner of Keely Hodgkinson, guided by Jenny Meadows and Trevor Painter.[5] In April 2023, she won the Duathlon World Championships in the female 30-34 age group, in Ibiza.[6][7]
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.[8]
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.[9] 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.[10] In February 2024, she lowered her 1500m personal best to 4:03.22 in Stockholm.[11] 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.[12][13]
Her place at the Paris Olympics was officially confirmed when Team GB named their athletics team on 5 July 2024.[22] A few days later she set a 3:56.54 personal best in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Meeting de Paris, to go No.2 on the UK all-time rankings, and set an English national record.[23] On 20 July 2024, she improved her 800m personal best to 1:56.28 at the London Diamond League.[24]
Personal life
She works for a London-based firm that studies cyber attacks. She is the daughter of political journalist Andy Bell and Angela Bell, a school librarian. She has two sisters.[25][26][27]
References
^"Georgia Bell". World Athletics. Retrieved 21 January 2024.