Hannah England is a British middle-distance runner specialising in the 800m and 1500m events. Hannah is a product of the Dame Kelly Holmes mentoring scheme, achieving a finish the two-time Olympic champion would certainly have been proud of by receiving a Silver medal at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu. Hannah is one of only three British women in history to have run under two minutes for the 800m and nine minutes for the 3000m.
Hannah attended the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 as a travelling reserve aged 21 – an incredible achievement that sparked an insatiable desire to succeed. In the following year Hannah seized a fantastic opportunity at the IAAF World Cup, achieving a Silver medal and securing second place in the 2010 European Championships the year after. Swiftly recognised as a force to be reckoned with, she cemented her authority by smashing the National AAA title the same year.
Hannah’s breakthrough came in 2011. Aged 24 she reached the final of the 1500m World Championships in Daegu. Initially the podium seemed out of Hannah’s reach as she trailed at the back of the leading pack in 7th place, but with the final straight looming Hannah kept her composure and sped past her competitors to claim Silver medal. In 2014 she was given the honour of leading Team GB at the European Team Championships in Germany, taking a respectable 6th place in the 1500m event.
