# Georgia Bell

Georgia Hunter Bell (born 17 October 1993) is an English track and field athlete who competes as a middle distance runner, and in the duathlon. In 2024, she won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 1500 metres, running a new national record time. That year, she also won the silver medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships and became British national champion, indoors and outdoors, in the 1500 metres. She retained her national indoors title in 2025.

## Early life

Bell was a high-achieving junior competitor, winning the English Schools title at under-15 level over 800 metres, and clocking a time of 2:08.81, which placed her eighth on the UK all-time list. She also won silver in the same championships as an under-17 in 2009. She attended Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School and studied geography at the University of Birmingham. In 2015, after winning the BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport) indoor 800 metres title and silver at the England Athletics Under-23 Championships, she started at University of California, Berkeley.

## Career

A Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers athlete, Bell returned to Britain from the United States, becoming a training partner of Keely Hodgkinson, guided by Jenny Meadows and Trevor Painter. In April 2023, she won the Duathlon World Championships in the female 30-34 age group, in Ibiza.
In 2023, she improved her personal bests over 1500m, 3000m and 5000m on the track, and set a new road 10k personal best in Telford, in December 2023.

### 2024

In January 2024, Bell ran a new personal best over 1500 metres, running 4:03.54 in winning the World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze event in Dortmund. The following week, Bell beat pre-race favourite Sembo Almayew for victory over 3000m in Val-de-Reuil in another lifetime best time of 8:42.16. In February 2024, she lowered her 1500m personal best to 4:03.22 in Stockholm. On 18 February 2024, she won the final at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham of the 1500 metres to become British indoor champion.
She was selected to compete for Britain at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. She qualified for the final of the women's 1500 metres race, with a time of 4:04.39. She finished fourth in the final with a time of 4:03.47.
In May 2024, she finished sixth in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Doha Diamond League in a time of 4:03.72. That month she also ran a personal best 800 metres time of 1:59.93 in Andújar. Bell ran a 4:00.41 personal best for the 1500m at the 2024 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon.
Selected to run the 1500 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, she won the silver medal. Later that month, she won the 1500 metres at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester.
Her place at the 2024 Summer Olympics was officially confirmed when Team GB named their athletics team on 5 July 2024. A few days later she set a 3:56.54 personal best in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Meeting de Paris, to go No.2 on the UK all-time rankings, and set an English national record. On 20 July 2024, she improved her 800m personal best to 1:56.28 at the London Diamond League. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Bell won a bronze medal in the women's 1500 m. To do so, she broke Laura Muir's British record, running a time of 3:52.61. In September 2024, she finished second in the 800 metres at the Diamond League final in Brussels, and finished seventh in the 1500 metres at the same event. She later announced that she was turning professional rather than return to cyber security job after her sabbatical.

### 2025

She ran a 3000m personal best of 8:36.96 at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on 2 February 2025. The following weekend she ran a personal best 4:23.35 for the indoor mile to win the Millrose Games in New York City on 8 February 2025.
On 23 February, she won the gold medal in the 1,500 metres at the British Indoor Championships for the second year in a row. At the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Hunter-Bell finished fourth in the 1,500 metres. She was named in the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in March 2025.

## Personal life

She previously worked for a London-based firm that studies cyber attacks. She is the daughter of political journalist Andy Bell and Angela Bell, a school PE teacher. She has two sisters. She married George Hunter in West Sussex on 19 October 2024.