Rose Davies (athlete)
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 Davies in 2018 | |
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| Born | 21 December 1999 |
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | 5000 metres |
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| Personal bests |
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Rose Davies (born 21 December 1999) in Newcastle, New South Wales, is an Australian athlete.[3] She holds the Australian National Record in the 5000m in a time of 14:40.83 achieved in Xiamen in 2025.[4]
Davies was born in New Lambton Heights,[1][2] a suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. She was 12-years-old when she first started running. At 14, she was the best in the nation, clocking times of 2:08 (800m) and 4:27 (1500m). She tried hard to improve on these times but it took five years to do so. In 2016 she remembers watching the Rio 2016 Olympics never thinking that she could ever qualify for an Olympics.
Davies then got Scott Westcott as her coach. His approach was critical as he allowed her to run as she wished, sometimes missing sessions or only running part of the program. Slowly she became committed and in 2018 she started to emerge off track and was placed third at the national U20 cross country. She then ran 10 km of 34:34 at Burnie, Tasmania in October 2018.[1]
