Georgia Hulls (born 27 August 1999) is a New Zealand sprinter with multiple national and Oceania titles who has represented her country at the World Athletics Championships.[1]
Hulls moved to live in Auckland to study accounting at Massey University’s Academy of Sport and to train with a cluster of New Zealand's young aspiration athletes based there. In her first year as a senior athlete she won the 2019 New Zealand national championships title over 400 metres before finishing as runner-up to Zoe Hobbs in the 200 m the following day.[4] Hulls came third in the 100 m at the 2019 Oceania Athletics Championships,[5][6] and, with Zoe Hobbs, Natasha Eady and Olivia Eaton, she also won bronze in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2019 Summer Universiade held in Napoli, Italy.[7]
Hulls ran the third leg alongside Livvy Wilson, Zoe Hobbs and Rosie Elliott as part of the team that broke the New Zealand senior women's 4 x 100m relay national record in Canberra in February 2020.[8] Hulls ran a then personal best 200 m time of 23.17 seconds to win the Australian championships on 2 April 2022. She had run a wind assisted 200 m in 23.10 to win the New Zealand 200 m national championships the previous month.[9][10] Hulls won gold in the 200 m and the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships. Hulls competed for New Zealand at the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, United States.[11]
On 19 February 2023, Hulls lowered her personal best 200 m time, running 22.84 in finishing 2nd at the International Track Meet in Christchurch.[12] The time beat the previous NZ record, but the record fell to the race winner Rosie Elliott.[citation needed] Hulls competed at the 200 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[13]
Hulls won the 200 metres title ahead of Rosie Elliott at the 2024 New Zealand Athletics Championships in Wellington.[14] In June, she won the gold medal with the New Zealand women's 4 x 100 metres relay alongside Amelie Fairclough, Brooke Somerfield and Marielle Venida at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji.[15]
Her grandmother Jean Hulls (née Adamson) was among Britain's best multi-discipline athletes winning silver medals in the pentathlon at the England women's athletics championship in 1958 and 1959.[17]
