Abigail Ives
British athlete (born 2004)
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Abigail Ives (born 6 February 2004) is a British middle-distance runner.[1]
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 February 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Middle distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Basildon AC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 800m: 1:59.49 (Belfast, 2025) 1500m: 4:07.49 (Oordegem, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early life
From Essex, she is a member of Basildon Athletic Club. She won her first age-group county cross-country championships for Basildon AC in 2015 when she was 13 years-old.[2] She attended Coopers' Company and Coborn School in Upminster. In 2015, she won the individual age-group title at the National finals of the Cross-Country Cup in Bedford.[3]
Career
Ives is coached by British former steeplechase runner Luke Gunn.[4]
2022
She was selected to represent Britain at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships.[5] She went into the championship with an 800 metres best of 2:01.88.[6] She won her semifinal with a run of 2:01.92, before going on to place sixth in the final.[7]
2023
In February 2023, she won bronze at the 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham over 800 metres.[8] In May 2023, she ran a 800 metres personal best time of 1:59.92 in Belfast, becoming just the fourth British U20 athlete to break the two-minute barrier at the distance.[9] In August 2023, she won silver at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem in the 800 metres. She was later voted the Athletics Weekly British Female Under-20 Athlete of the Year.[10]
2024
In May 2024, she won the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) 800 metres title, competing for the University of Birmingham.[11] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025.[12]
2025
In May 2025, she lowered her personal best to 1:59.49 in winning the Belfast Milers event in Northern Ireland.[13] She ran a 400 metres personal best of 54.29 in Birmingham in June 2025.[14] She was selected for the 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid on 28 June 2025, placing sixth overall on her senior international debut in a time of 2:00.48.[15][16]
She was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, where she reached the final with a winning time of 2:02.19 in her heat before winning the bronze medal in the final.[17][18][19] Later in the championships, she won a gold medal as part of the women’s 4 x 400 metres relay team.[20] On 3 August, she placed third in the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham, finishing behind Jemma Reekie and Georgia Hunter Bell.[21] In October 2025, she was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.[22]
2026
Ives ran 2:02.07 indoors at Lee Valley in February 2026, finish ahead of Lyla Belshaw.[23] That month, she was a finalist over 1500 metres at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, placing seventh overall.[24]
Personal life
Her older sister Isobel Ives also competes as a middle-distance runner, combining it with work as a civil engineer in Chelmsford.[25]