Georgia Bell

Georgia Bell (born 17 October 1993) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a middle distance runner, and in the duathlon. In 2024, she became British national champion in the 1500 metres, both indoors and outdoors, and won the silver medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.

Early life
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. 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.

Career
A Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers athlete, Bell returned to Britain from the United States, Bell became a training partner of Keely Hodgkinson, guided by Jenny Meadows and Trevor Painter. In April 2023, she won the Duathlon World Championships in the female 30-34 age group, in Ibiza.

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.

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. 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. In February 2024, she lowered her 1500m personal best to 4:03.22 in Stockholm. 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.

She was selected to compete for Britain at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. She qualified for the final of the women's 1500 metres race, with a time of 4:04.39. She finished fourth in the final with a time of 4:03.47.

In May 2024, she finished sixth in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Doha Diamond League in a time of 4:03.72. That month she also ran a personal best 800 metres time of 1:59.93 in Andújar. Bell ran a 4:00.41 personal best for the 1500m at the 2024 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon.

Selected to run the 1500 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, she won the silver medal. Later that month, she won the 1500 metres at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester.

Her place at the Paris Olympics was officially confirmed when Team GB named their athletics team on 5 July 2024. 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. On 20 July 2024, she improved her 800m personal best to 1:58.26 at the London Diamond League.

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.