Georgia Griffith

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1996-12-05) 5 December 1996 (age 27) Canberra, Australia[1]
Education	Monash University[2]
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Middle-distance running
Event(s)	800 and 1500 metres
Club	Ferret Track Club

Georgia Helen Griffith (born 5 December 1996) is an Australian middle-distance runner.

Early years

Griffith in her mid-teens decided to take her athletics seriously and commenced regular training. Just days after her 17th birthday she won the 2013 Australian All Schools Championships 800m gold medal in a time of 2:09.^[3]

Achievements

Griffith has represented Australia at the:

• 2014 World Junior Championships in Eugene (USA) in both the 800m and 4 × 400m relay. She placed 4th^[4] in the 800m and made the finals^[5] in the relay
• 2017 World Championships in London (UK) in both the 800m^[6] and 1500m^[7]
• 2017 World University Games in Taipei (Taiwan) in the 800m, where she came 4th^[8]
• 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast (Australia) in both the 800m^[9] and 1500m, where she came 5th^[10] in 1500m
• 2019 World University Games in Naples (Italy) in the 1500m, where she came 2nd^[11]
• 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha (Qatar) in the 1500m where she made the semi-finals^[12]
• In 2021, she was selected to represent Australia at the Tokyo (Japan) Olympics in the 1500m^[13] She came 14th in the heat with a time of 4:14.43.^[14]

Her current personal bests for the 800m are 2:00.13^[15] and for the 1500m, 4:04.17.^[15]