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Alice Wright
British long-distance runner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alice Wright (born 3 November 1994) is an English-born long-distance runner.
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Early life and prep
Wright represented Worcester AC as a junior athlete.[1] She won the Worcestershire County Championships 3000 meters race in 2011, setting a personal best of 9:39.98 at the distance a few weeks later in Watford.[2]
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Wright moved to the United States in 2013. In college, Wright was an 11-time NCAA Division I All-American (8 time 1st Team, 3 times 2nd Team) at University of New Mexico.[3]
In 2014, Alice Wright led the New Mexico Lobos women's cross country team to an NCAA Division I cross country team championship title, placing 3rd.[4][5]
In 2015, Courtney Frerichs's 5th place (19:48.0) finish led the team to an NCAA Division I cross country team title scoring 49 points. Wright finished in 6th place (19:53.1).[6]
In 2016, Wright led the team to a seventh-place finish in the NCAA Division I cross country Championships.[7]
In 2017, the New Mexico Lobos women's cross country again won the NCAA Division I cross country team title, with individual winner Ednah Kurgat taking 1st place (19:19.5). Wright was the team's fourth runner, finishing 14th (19:49.73). The 2017 team was University of New Mexico's 8th-straight top-10 performance at the NCAA Championships — the longest active streak in NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship history.[8]
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In July 2018, Alice Wright moved to Flagstaff, Arizona to train under coach Ben Rosario at Northern Arizona Elite.[9]
In August 2018, Wright placed 6th (later promoted to 5th) while representing Team GB at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in 10,000 metres.[10]
On 12 September 2021, Wright won the Athens Half Marathon in Athens, Greece, in a time of 1:14:53.[11] In November of the same year, Wright broke the British record in the one-hour run on the track, covering 17,044 meters.[12]
In 2022, Wright made her marathon debut at the Chevron Houston Marathon in Houston, Texas, where she finished second in a time of 2:29:08.[13] She then represented Great Britain internationally for the second time at the senior level, finishing 22nd in the women's marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in a time of 2:35:33.
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