Hannah England
England at the 2011 World Championships
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| Birth name | Hannah Jane England | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||
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6 March 1987 Oxford, UK |
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
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Hannah England (born 6 March 1987) is a British middle-distance running athlete who specialises in the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run. At 1500 m, she is the 2011 World Championship silver medallist and finished fourth at the 2013 World Championships. She also competed at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. England is one of only three British woman in history (as of 2014) to have run under two minutes for 800 m and nine minutes for 3000 m, the others being Christina Boxer and Kirsty Wade.
Born in Oxford, England, she attended the Cherwell School in Summertown, North Oxford. England joined Oxford City Athletic Club as an under 13, her first major success coming in the UK Athletics Reebok Cross Country Challenge in Birmingham as an Under 15. In 2005 England joined Birmingham University to study Biochemistry. Winning the national junior title in the 1500 m and competing at the World Junior Championships. As part of her degree studies, she spent a year at Florida State University. During her time there, she competed for the university's track team at the NCAA Track and Field Championships, winning the mile run indoors and the 1500 m outdoors. She returned to the United Kingdom and finished third in the 1500 m at the 2008 national championships. However, World Junior Champion Stephanie Twell was selected ahead of her for the 2008 Summer Olympics and England attended the Games as a reserve but did not compete.
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