Eleanor Strevens
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| Born | 14 December 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Middle-distance running, Cross country running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 2:04.45 (2025) 1500m: 4:13.41 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Eleanor Strevens (born 14 December 2006) is a British middle-distance and cross country runner.[1]
Biography
From Eastbourne in Sussex, she is a member of Eastbourne Rovers athletics club having joined the club at the age of nine years-old. She was coached by Chris Voice for nine years.[2] Having started at the University of Birmingham in 2024, she began to be coached by Dean Miller.[3]
She finished sixth in the U20 race at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey, helping Great Britain to win the women's U20 team gold medal at the event, alongside Innes FitzGerald and Jess Bailey.[4] She won the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) short course cross country title that season.[3] Selected to represent England, she also won the Elgoibar International Cross Country U20 race in Northern Spain.[2]
She ran an indoors personal best for the 1500 metres of 4:17.43 at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, placing seventh overall in the final.[5] In the spring of 2025 as she reached the conclusion of her first year at Birmingham University, she was runner-up to Abigail Ives in the BUCS 800 m race on the track.[3] She won the women’s international 1500m at the Belfast Irish Milers Meet in May 2025, in a personal best time of 4:14.61.[6] She lowered her personal best again at the British Milers Club Grand Prix in Birmingham the following month, running 4:13.41.[7]
She was named in the British team for the 1500 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, winning her heat in 4:20.70 before placing fifth in the final won by compatriot Lyla Belshaw, running 4:17.51.[8][9][10]
References
- ^ "Eleanor Strevens". World Athletics. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ a b Chaplin, Anna (7 Jan 2025). "Busy few weeks for Eastbourne Rovers' Eleanor". Sussex Express. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ a b c Collet, Jasmine (18 June 2025). "ELEANOR STREVENS AIMING FOR EURO U20 CHAMPS SUCCESS". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
- ^ "GB & NI TEAM ANNOUNCED FOR EUROPEAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ANTALYA". British Athletics. 26 November 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ "UK Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 23 February 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ^ "Athletics: Davies dominates 800m in record-breaking style as Belfast Meet delivers". Belfast Media. 12 May 2025. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ "British Milers Club Grand Prix". World Athletics. 7 June 2025. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ "Italian sprint star Doualla Edimo speeds through to 100m final". European Athletics. 7 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "NOVUNA GB & NI TEAM ANNOUNCED FOR THE U20 EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ "THREE GOLDS FOR BRITAIN ON DAY THREE OF THE EUROPEAN U20 CHAMPS". Athletics Weekly. 9 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.