Kate Amelia Reed (born 28 September 1982 in

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) is a

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long-distance runner. She finished second at the 2006 World University Cross Country Championships and second in the team event at the 2007 European Cross Country Championships. In 2008, she finished twenty-third in the women's 10,000 metres race at the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

. Her personal bests are: *

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

- 4:13.55 min (2007) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

- 9:01.17 min (2007) *

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ...

- 15:29.10 min (2007) *

10,000 metres The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The race ...

- 31:35.77 min (2008)

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1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Bristol British female long-distance runners English female long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{UK-athletics-bio-stub