Alison Andrews-Paul
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| Born | 18 December 1997 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle-distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| National finals | 800 m champion (2023, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 800 m: 2:00.81 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Alison Andrews-Paul (born 18 December 1997) is a New Zealand middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in the 800 metres.[1]
Career
[edit]She set a personal best time for the 800 metres of 2:06.32 at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Poland.[2] After which, she won the 2016 Wairarapa Senior Sports Personality award.[3] Although injury and illness hampered her progress, her personal best was broken when running 2:01.43 in Azusa, California in April 2022, by which stage she was being coached by Brit Townsend.[2] She won the 2023 New Zealand Athletics Championships title over 800 metres in Wellington in March 2023.[4]
She set a personal best of 4:37.86 in the mile run indoors at the Husky Classic in Seattle in February 2024.[5] That year, she retained the New Zealand Athletics Championships title over 800 metres, and ran her second fastest time ever in May 2024 of 2:02.11 whilst racing in Los Angeles.[6] She won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji in June 2024, running a time of 2:03.94.[7] She had been named the New Zealand women's team captain for the Games.[3]
In 2025, she ran a personal best of 2:00.81 in Boston, Massachusetts.[8] In March 2025, she was named in the New Zealand team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing.[9]
Personal life
[edit]Her hometown is Masterton,[2] and she attended Wairarapa College,[10] and Baylor University in Texas. She was later based in Canada in Burnaby, British Colombia, and completed a master's degree in public health at Simon Fraser University, graduating in 2022.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alison Andrews-Paul". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ a b c d Hinton, Marc (16 December 2022). "Alison Andrews-Paul aiming for a happy homecoming over 800m at the Night of 5s". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ a b Cogdale, Chris (15 June 2024). "Late dash for Paris Olympics". Times-age.co.nz. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "New Zealand Championships". World Athletics. 2 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ McNab, Alec (22 January 2025). "Athletics Insight: Sam Tanner aims for third consecutive title at Cooks Gardens mile". NZ Herald. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "Huge New Zealand contingent set for Oceania challenge". Athletics.org.nz. 31 May 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "Little dominates javelin as championship records tumble at Oceania Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "New Zealand to send record-breaking team to world athletics indoor championships". Stuff.co.nz. 12 March 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "Record-Breaking Team for 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing Announced". Athletics.org. 12 March 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "Andrews-Paul wins Oceania Championship". Times-age.co.nz. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
