Georgia Bell explains why missing out on podium in Apeldoorn gave her sleepless night.
Britain middle distance runner Georgia Hunter Bell has opened up about the nightmare she faced after European Indoor Championships heartbreak.
Her sentiments come after she claimed her first professional global medal on the last day of the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing on Sunday.
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The 31-year-old who used to sell cybersecurity software, bagged a brilliant bronze medal in the 1500m in China. Hunter Bell set a new personal best of 3min 59.84sec, just outside the British record, to finish behind runaway winner Gudaf Tsegay, who clocked a championship record of 3:54.86, and another Ethiopian, Diribe Welteji.
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Reminiscing what transpired in Apeldoorn, Hunter Bell was at pains to explain that the loss was his biggest and was devastated that all the hard work counted for nothing.
“The Europeans was the biggest loss so far in my career. I was absolutely devastated. I didn’t get out of bed the next day. But the mark of being a good athlete is when it goes wrong, learning from it and coming back. Hopefully there’s a lot more to come,” Hunter Bell told the Daily Mail.
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Hunter Bell indeed bounced back from the disappointment of missing out on the podium at the European Indoor Championships two weeks ago.
The Olympic 1500m bronze medallist was part of an 11-strong British team competing at the three-day championships. She was the strong favourite in Apeldoorn but faded to fourth in the closing stages, as team-mate Revee Walcott-Nolan clinched her first international medal.
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2024 was a good year for Bell. In January 2024, Bell ran a new personal best over 1500m, running 4:03.54 in winning the World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze event in Dortmund.
In February, she lowered her 1500m personal best to 4:03.22 in Stockholm. In September 2024, she finished second in the 800 metres at the Diamond League final in Brussels, and finished seventh in the 1500 metres at the same event.
