Hannah Nuttall (born 7 July 1997) is a British athlete. She competes in middle-distance and

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events.

Early life

Nuttall ran as a youngster for Charnwood Athletics club. Nuttall attended

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and had her first experience of representing Britain at the 2015 junior

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held in

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, China. A qualified nutritionist, she attended the

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, and completed a master's degree at

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Career

In 2021 she won the mixed relay at the

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held in Dublin. Shortly afterwards she began to be coached by

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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

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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

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held in

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, 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

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over 3000 metres. She was subsequently selected for the

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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.

Personal life

Nuttall is the daughter of former athletes

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and John Nuttall. Her brother

Luke Nuttall Luke Nuttall (born 17 September 2001) is a British Paralympic athlete who competes in the 1500m in the T46 (classification), T46 classification. Athletics career Nuttall is based in Charnwood, and began his career competing in county and natio ...

is also an athlete.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nuttall, Hannah 1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Loughborough English female middle-distance runners British female middle-distance runners English female cross country runners British female cross country runners Alumni of Loughborough University University of New Mexico alumni Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain European Games medalists in athletics