Georgia Hunter Bell On Going From Bronze (Paris 2024) To Silver (Tokyo 2025) To Gold (Torun 2026) And Finally Becoming A World Champion

About this episode

Georgia Hunter Bell discusses her journey from Olympic bronze to World Champion in middle-distance running.

“Once you become a champion instead of a medalist, it shifts something. I used to think a medal was the best thing ever. Now I’d probably be a little disappointed with just a medal. That’s a blessing and a curse.” My guest for today’s episode is Georgia Hunter Bell . In March, at the World Indoor Championships in Torun, Georgia won gold in the 1500m, completing a remarkable arc from Olympic bronze in Paris in 2024 to World Indoor silver in Tokyo in 2025 to world champion this spring. She did it as part of one of the most extraordinary 28-minute stretches in British athletics history, with Keely Hodgkinson and Molly Caudery becoming world champions in the same session. Georgia only went fully professional in April 2024. Before that she was working a corporate job that was about to transfer her to Sydney. In the two years since, she has put together three World Championship podiums, has run personal bests across the 800m and 1500m, and built one of the more unusual training models in elite middle-distance running while still averaging about 30 miles a week, doing long bike rides instead of second runs, and apparently ending most track sessions on the ground. In this conversation…

People in this episode

Guest: Georgia Hunter Bell

Topics covered

• athletics
• middle-distance running
• championships
• personal growth
• training methods
• competition

Keywords

• Georgia Hunter Bell
• World Indoor Championships
• Olympic bronze
• middle-distance running
• training methods
• championships

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Paris, Tokyo, Torun

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