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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
Born | 7 March 1998 | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 800: 2:00.55 (Canberra, 2024) 1500m: 3:59.59 (Xiamen, 2023) Mile: 4:32.30 (Whanganui, 2023) 3000m: 8:47.11 (Sydney, 2024) 5000m: 15:41.41 (Melbourne, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sarah Billings (born 7 March 1998) is a track and field athlete from Australia. She is a former national champion over 1500 metres. [1]
She attended Melbourne University. [2] [3] Billings grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Kew and attended Ruyton Girls School.
Billings competed at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in the 800 metres and 4 x 400m relay. [4] The following year, she won the national U20 title over 800 metres. [5] She won the Australian national 1500 metres title in Melbourne in December 2019. [6] [7] However, a string of injuries limited her to just four races over the two-year period of 2020–2021. [8]
She was a pacemaker at the Diamond League event in Stockholm in 2022. [9] In November 2022, she won the Victorian 5000m Championships at Box Hill, Victoria. [10] In February 2023, she ran a personal best of 4:32.30 for the mile to finish second at the Cooks Classic Mile in Wanganui. [11] In June 2023, she acted as a pacemaker for Beatrice Chebet to break a 24-year old meet record at the Diamond League event in Oslo. [12]
She ran a personal best of 4:38.97 for the road Mile at the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga. [13]
In April 2024, she finished fourth in the woman's 1500m at the Australian Athletics Championships. The following week she set a new personal best of 3:59.59 for the distance, inside the Olympic qualifying time for the 2024 Games in Paris, at the 2024 Xiamen Diamond League. [14] [15] She won the 1500m at the World Continental Tour Gold event in Tokyo on 19 May 2024. [16]
Her brother Jack Billings is an Australian Rules Football player. [17]