Hannah Irwin
Northern Irish athlete
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Hannah Irwin (born 23 June 1998) is a British long-distance runner. She competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games over 10,000m representing Northern Ireland. That year, she set a new Northern Irish national record for the 10,000m. In 2023, she set a new Northern Irish national record for the half marathon.[1]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Northern Ireland |
| Born | 23 June 1998 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Long-distance running |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | 1500m: 4:22.93 (Cardiff, 2024) 3000m 9:11:98 (Watford, 2023) 5000m 15:24.71 (Tonypandy, 2025) 10,000m 32:25.34 (London, 2022) 5km (road): 15:27 (Battersea, 2026) 10km (road): 31:32 (Valencia, 2026) Half-marathon 1:10:49 (Valencia, 2024) |
Early life
From Cambridge, Irwin studied English with Creative Writing at Surrey University, and writes poetry in her spare time. Irwin recovered from an anaemia diagnosis in 2017.[2] In 2020 Irwin wrote about overcoming problems with disordered eating when she was younger.[3]
Career
Irwin made her British debut in June 2022 at the European 10,000m Cup, where the British team came home with a bronze medal.[4] Prior to that, Irwin had run a new personal best and set a new Northern Ireland record of 32:25.34 for the 10,000m competing at the Night of the 10,000m PBs at Parliament Hill in May 2022.[5][6] In June 2022 Irwin set a new 5000m personal best of 15:45.87 at the Woodside Stadium in Watford.[7]
Irwin was selected as path of the Northern Ireland squad for the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.[8] However, she did not finish the 10,000m race at the event.[9] She was later diagnosed with a metatarsal fracture which prevented her competing for several months.[10]
In August 2023, she broke the Northern Irish national record for the half marathon, running 1:11:05 in County Antrim.[11]
She was selected for the Half Marathon race at the 2025 European Running Championships in April 2025 in Leuven, Belgium.[12] Competing at the championships on 12 April 2025, she finished in sixteenth place in a time of 73:54.[13] On 31 December 2025, Irwin ran a 15:27 personal best on the road at the Battersea 5K, placing second.[14] Competing in Valencia on 11 January 2026, Irwin lowered the Northern Ireland record for the 10 km, with a time of 31:32.[15][16] She placed third in the British national 10,000 metres championship race in Loughborough on 17 May 2026, behind Izzy Fry and Poppy Tank.[17]