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Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 7 July 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 3000m | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hannah Nuttall (born 7 July 1997) is a British athlete. She competes in middle-distance and cross-country running events.
Nuttall ran as a youngster for Charnwood Athletics club.[1] Nuttall attended Loughborough College and had her first experience of representing Britain at the 2015 junior World Cross Country Championships held in Guiyang, China.[2] A qualified nutritionist,[3] she attended the University of New Mexico,[4] and completed a master's degree at Loughborough University.[5]
In 2021 she won the mixed relay at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships held in Dublin.[6] Shortly afterwards she began to be coached by Helen Clitheroe when she joined Team New Balance Manchester.[7]
In February 2023, Nuttall finished runner-up at the British national indoors championships over 3000m.[8] She was subsequently selected for the Great Britain squad for the 2023 European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul for the 3000m.[9] She qualified for the final in the 3000m.[10] Nuttall ran a personal best time of 8:46.30 as she achieved a fifth-placed finish in the final.[11]
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.[12] 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.[13]
In February 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, she ran a new personal best over 3000 metres, running 8:45.61.[14] The following week she lowered her 5000m personal best to 15:03.39 in Boston.[15] She finished second at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham over 3000 metres.[16][17] 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.[18][19]
Nuttall is the daughter of former athletes Alison Wyeth and John Nuttall. Her brother Luke Nuttall is also an athlete.[20][21]