British athlete (born 1997)
Hannah Nuttall (born 7 July 1997) is a British athlete. She competes in middle-distance and cross-country running events. In 2024, she became British champion in the 5000 metres.
Early life.
Nuttall ran as a youngster for Charnwood Athletics club. Nuttall attended Loughborough College and had her first experience of representing Britain at the 2015 junior World Cross Country Championships held in Guiyang, China. A qualified nutritionist, she attended the University of New Mexico, and completed a master's degree at Loughborough University.
Career.
In 2021 she won the mixed relay at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships held in Dublin. Shortly afterwards she began to be coached by Helen Clitheroe when she joined Team New Balance Manchester.
In February 2023, Nuttall finished runner-up at the British national indoors championships over 3000m. She was subsequently selected for the Great Britain squad for the 2023 European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul for the 3000m. She qualified for the final in the 3000m. Nuttall ran a personal best time of 8:46.30 as she achieved a fifth-placed finish in the final.
She was selected for the British team for the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships held in Chorzów, Silesia, Poland between 20 and 25 June 2023. It was the second time she had ever ran a 5000m race on the track, and she finished in second position overall in the First Division race, with a time of 15:29:49.
In February 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, she ran a new personal best over 3000 metres, running 8:45.61. The following week she lowered her 5000m personal best to 15:03.39 in Boston. She finished second at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham over 3000 metres. She was subsequently selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow where she competed in the women's 3000 metres in which she finished twelfth in the final.
She set a new outdoors personal best over 5000m running 14:57.91 at the Los Angeles Grand Prix on 17 May 2024. The following weekend she lowered that again in Leiden, in the Netherlands, to 14:52.65. She was selected to run the 5000 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. In 2024, she became British national champion in the 5000 metres at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester.
Results and personal bests.
Championship results
Personal bests
Personal life.
Nuttall is the daughter of former athletes Alison Wyeth and John Nuttall. Her brother Luke Nuttall is also an athlete.
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