Emelia Górecka
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| Full name | Emelia Jane Gorecka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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29 January 1994 Epsom, Surrey, England |
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| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb; 8.3 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Great Britain
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| Club | Aldershot, Farnham & District AC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mick Woods 2006-2015 Chris Thompson 2016-present |
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1500 m: 4:14.22 (Watford 2012) 3000 m: 8:55.11 (Birmingham 2012) 5000 m:15:34.21 (Watford 2012) |
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Mick Woods 2006-2015
Emelia Jane Gorecka (born 29 January 1994), is a British middle and long-distance runner. She specialises in middle and long-distance running, racing in 1500 metres, 3000 metres, 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, as well as cross country running. Górecka is the current European Junior 3000m champion and was coached by Mick Woods from 2006 up until 2015. She is now coached by Chris Thompson.
She began her athletics career with Dorking and Mole Valley Athletic Club, where even as an 11-year-old she showed much early promise, beating girls several years older than her in local races. In 2006, she moved to her current club, Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletic Club. She lives in Bookham, Surrey. After winning a number of youth titles at the national level, Górecka had her first international success at the 2010 European Cross Country Championships, where she won a bronze medal in the Junior race. She was also the best European Junior at the World Cross Country Championships that year. In the 2011 European Cross Country Championships she won the junior women's race and led Britain to victory in the team event.
At the age of 14 she topped the UK rankings chart in the 1500m for the U15 age group, in what was the third fastest ever time for someone her age. By the time she was 16 years old she had won a total of 20 national and seven international races and taken part in three World Championship events.
Górecka holds the British record time for the mile race as an U15 Girl, 4:46.87, which beat the previous record by four seconds. She also holds the record for 3000m in the U15/U17 age groups.
On 8 December 2013, Górecka came 1st at the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia with a comfortable win over Polish athlete, Sofia Ennaoui with a time of 13:06. The race was on BBC 2 and was televised in 11 other countries.
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