By Chris Chavez
January 6, 2025
1500 Olympic silver and bronze medalists Jessica Hull and Georgia Bell have been confirmed as headliners for the 2025 Millrose Games women’s Wanamaker Mile, meet organizers announced.
Their participation in the meet was first reported by LetsRun.
Here’s what you need to know:
– This will be Bell’s Millrose Games debut. The 2024 indoor season began Bell’s remarkable comeback to professional running. In the past 12 months, she lowered her personal bests from 2:03.38 to 1:56.28 in the 800m and 4:06.20 to 3:52.61 (British national record) in the 1500m. She was fourth in the 1500m at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow and then stunned many with a podium finish at the Paris Olympics. She was also second in the 800m and seventh in the 1500m at the Diamond League final.
– She joined The CITIUS MAG Podcast in early September to recap her Olympic experience and 2024 as a whole.
– For 2025, Bell has left her full-time job in cybersecurity sales to commit to professional running full-time.
– Hull returns to the Millrose Games after finishing second in an Australian record of 4:19.03 to Elle St. Pierre in the mile last year. This will be her third career appearance at the Millrose Games. In 2024, she also lowered her personal bests from 2:03.78 to 1:59.99 in the 800m; 3:57.29 to 3:50.83 (No. 5 on the all-time list) in the 1500m and 8:31.81 to 8:24.39 in the 3000m. She also broke the 2000m world record in 5:19.70 at the Monaco Diamond League in July. At the Paris Olympics, she stayed on Faith Kipyegon’s heels through to become the first Australian woman to earn an Olympic medal in the 1500m.
– For 2025, Hull has signed on as a short distance Racer with Grand Slam Track. Bell did not sign as a Racer but could still compete as a Challenger in any of the four meets. Her training partner and 800m Olympic gold medalist Keely Hodgkinson (who has never contested a 1500m as a professional) has already expressed interest in competing as a Challenger.
– Hull is 6–0 against Bell in their career head-to-head races over 1500m.
– Bell did not race a mile in 2024. Her personal best is 4:33.66 from August 2022. Five of those races came in 2024. Their first race against each other was the 2017 Stanford Invitational 1500m. Hull, who was competing for the Oregon Ducks, was seventh in 4:19.50 and Bell was 12th in her
– St. Pierre will not be back to defend her title after announcing her pregnancy before the holidays. She is due with her second child in March.
– The field also includes World Indoor 1500m silver and bronze medalists Nikki Hiltz and Emily Mackay plus Kenyan indoor mile record holder Susan Ejore (also 6th in the 2024 1500m Olympic final), NCAA mile and 1500m champion and now On Athletics Club pro Maia Ramsden, Italian record holder and Olympian Sinta Vissa, two-time U.S. Olympian Elise Cranny (also No. 3 on the U.S. all-time mile list), 2021 Olympian Heather MacLean and 2022 U.S. champion Sinclaire Johnson.
Notes: Ejore was third place in last year's race. Hiltz's best finish in the Wanamaker Mile was fifth at the 2020 edition of the Millrose Games.
Chris Chavez
Chris Chavez launched CITIUS MAG in 2016 as a passion project while working full-time for Sports Illustrated. He covered the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and grew his humble blog into a multi-pronged media company. He completed all six World Marathon Majors and is an aspiring sub-five-minute miler.
