Grace Vans Agnew
Vans Agnew at the 2025 UK Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 30 December 2000 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Middle distance runner |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | 800m: 2:00.45 (2025) |
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Grace Vans Agnew (born 30 December 2000) is a British middle-distance runner. She was runner-up over 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships.[1]
Early life
She is from Sussex.[2] She was schooled at Millfield in Somerset.[3] She later studied sport and exercise at St Mary's University, Twickenham in London.[4]
Career
Running for Ouse Valley in the 400 metres hurdles, she won the bronze medals respectively at the South of England championships in 2019.[2] That year, at the Sussex Track and Field Championship she set a county record for the U20 women's 400 hurdles, running 62.05 seconds.[5]
In May 2024, she ran a new personal best time of 2:01.21 for the 800 metres whilst competing in Belfast.[6] That month, she was selected to represent England at the Loughborough International.[7] In June 2024, she finished in fifth place at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester over 80 metres.[8]
She set an indoor 800 metres personal best of 2:02.81 in February 2025 in Lee Valley, London.[9][10] She finished second behind Isabelle Boffey in the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in a time of 2:04.28.[11][12] She won the women's 800m B-race in an indoor best of 2:02.20 at the Madrid World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting on 28 February 2025, in Spain.[13]
She was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.[14][15] Competing in the 800 metres at the championships, she ran a time of 2:08.87 in her qualifying heat to finish in third place and did not progress to the semi-finals.[16]
On 3 August, she finished in fifth place in the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham.[17]
In June 2026, she reached the final of the 800 metres at the 2026 British Championships, winning her semi-final prior to placing fourth overall with 2:00.94 in the final.[18] In July, she finished second in the 800 m to Nina Vuković with 2:00.93 at the Cork City Sports in Ireland.[19]
References
- ↑ "Grace Vans Agnew". World Athletics. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- 1 2 Anning, Melanie (11 June 2019). "Six Superb Records Set at School Champs". Sussex Athletics. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ↑ "News". millfieldschool. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ↑ "Grace Vans Agnew". stmarys.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ↑ Anning, Melanie (11 June 2019). "Records Continue to Tumble on Day Two". Sussex Athletics.net. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ↑ "Teenager Phoebe Gill Shatters European U18 800m Record with 1:57.86 at Belfast Meeting". Watch Athletics. 12 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ↑ "England team selected for the 2024 Loughborough International". England Athletics. 15 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ↑ "UK Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
- ↑ "James McMurray wins Ayo Falola Dream Mile". Athletics Weekly. 13 February 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ↑ Rhodes, James (18 Feb 2025). "Weekend of Records – Weekend Round Up". Fast Running. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
- ↑ "Williams and Azu Claim 60M Titles in Birmingham". British Athletics. 22 Feb 2025. Retrieved 22 Feb 2025.
- ↑ Adams, Tim (22 February 2025). "Azu and Williams storm to scintillating 60m titles". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ↑ "Caudery flies high into the Madrid sky with European-leading 4.85m". European Athletics. 28 Feb 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ↑ "GB & NI Team Selected for the European Indoor Championships 2025". British Athletics. 26 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ↑ Henderson, Jason (Feb 26, 2025). "Molly Caudery leads British team for European Indoor Champs". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 26 Feb 2025.
- ↑ "European Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 6 March 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
- ↑ "UK Championship". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
- ↑ "Novuna UK Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 20 June 2026. Retrieved 20 June 2026.
- ↑ Considine, Tony (8 July 2026). "'It was really good' — Nicola Tuthill lays down marker with second place finish at Cork City Sports". Independent.ie. Retrieved 13 July 2026.