Georgia Hulls
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| Born | 27 August 1999 Hawke's Bay, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
Early life
[edit]Hulls is from Hawke's Bay where she attended Havelock North High School.[2] She competed for New Zealand in Cali, Colombia at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics and at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland.[3]
Career
[edit]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]
She was selected for the New Zealand team to compete at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana. [16]
Personal life
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Georgia Hulls". World Athletics.
- ^ "Young sports stars get surprising windfall". Sporty.co.nz.
- ^ "Good performance by Georgia Hulls at IAAF World U-20 Championships". HMHS.school.NZ.
- ^ "Athletics: Bay's Hulls claims 400m title in first year as senior". The New Zealand Herald. 22 February 2019.
- ^ "Brad Mathas and Georgia Hulls secure World Championship spots in Mackay". Athletics.org. 8 June 2022.
- ^ "Brad Mathas and Georgia Hulls book world championships spots with wins in Australia". i.stuff.co.nz.
- ^ "Athletics: Hawke's Bay sprinter Georgia Hulls helps clinch bronze at World University Games". The New Zealand Herald. 18 January 2019.
- ^ Singh, Anendra (14 February 2020). "Athletics: Georgia Hulls helps senior women's relay team smash NZ record". NZ Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2026.
- ^ "Georgia Hulls looks to Olympic Games goal". The New Zealand Herald.
- ^ "Q&A with Georgia Hulls: The young Kiwi sprinter taking on the world". The New Zealand Herald.
- ^ "Georgia Hulls Exits The World Championship 200m". Scoop.co.nz.
- ^ "Rosie Elliott blitzes to New Zealand 200m record in Christchurch". 19 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ "Women's 200m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 23 August 2023.
- ^ "New Zealand Championships". World Athletics. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
- ^ "Oceania Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 25 April 2026.
- ^ "Athletics NZ Selects Historic First Team For World Athletics Relays". athletics.org.nz. 10 April 2026. Retrieved 25 April 2026.
- ^ "Kiwi sprinter Georgia Hulls continues her grandma's unfinished story". i.stuff.co.nz.
- Living people
- 1999 births
- New Zealand women sprinters
- World Athletics Championships athletes for New Zealand
- Australian Athletics Championships winners
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for New Zealand
- Sportspeople from Hawke's Bay
- 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen
- New Zealand Athletics Championships winners
- People educated at Havelock North High School