Ben Pattison
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Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Frimley, United Kingdom | 15 December 2001|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 800m | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Basingstoke & Mid Hants | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ben Pattison (born 15 December 2001) is a British middle-distance runner, who specializes in the 800 metres.[1][2] Representing Great Britain in the 2023 World Athletics Championships, he won the bronze medal in the 800 metres, mirroring the medal he won for England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[1]
Biography
Pattison was educated at Loughborough University[3] won a silver medal at the 2019 Under-20 European Championships. He finished fourth at the 2021 European U23 Championships and in 2022 recorded a personal best of 1.44.6 becoming the second fastest British runner that year.[4]
In 2022, he was selected for the men's 800 metres event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham,[1][4] where he won a bronze medal.[5]
In 2023, Pattison won bronze in the 800 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
After winning the 800m gold medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships, Pattison was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[6]
Pattison moved up to second place on the British all-time 800 metres list when he clocked a new personal best of 1:42.27 to finish fifth at the Herculis Meeting in Monaco on 12 July 2024.[7]
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 400 metres – 46.76 (Loughborough 2022)
- 800 metres – 1:42.27 (Monaco 2024)
- 1500 metres – 3:39.14 (Loughborough 2022)
Indoor
- 800 metres – 1:49.04 (Manchester 2021)
References
- ^ a b c "Official Commonwealth Games profile". Birmingham Organising Committee Commonwealth Games Ltd. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "Ben Pattison profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "Athlete profile". The Power of 10. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Team England profile". Team England. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ Final results
- ^ "Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Pattison goes second on British 800m all-time list". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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- 2001 births
- Living people
- English male middle-distance runners
- British male middle-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century English people
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- European Games competitors for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games
- Sportspeople from Frimley
- Alumni of Loughborough University
- World Athletics Championships medalists