WAAA and National Championships Medallists - 880 yards and 800 metres

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		First		Second		Third
		WAAA Championships
		880 Yards
		880 Yards
1922		Mary Lines	2:26.6 WR	Jessie Brooks	5 yards	Phyllis Hall	20 yards
1923		Edith Trickey	2:40.2	Gladys Lane	½ yard	Phyllis Hall	30 yards
1924		Edith Trickey	2:30.4	Phyllis Hall	2:41.8	Ivy Wilson	5 yards
1925		Edith Trickey	2:26.6 =WR	Gladys Lane	5 yards	Kathleen Harris	3 yards
1926		Edith Trickey	2:28.0	Gladys Lane	4 yards	Lilian Styles	6 yards
1927		Edith Trickey	2:32.4	Alice Williams	20 yards	Lilian Styles	6 yards
1928		Ivy Barber	2:27.6	Lilian Styles	4 yards	Mary Firmin	15 yards
1929		Violet Streater	2:25.8	Ruth Christmas	inches	Lilian Styles	5 yards
1930		Gladys Lunn	2:18.2 WR	Ruth Christmas	2:20.4	Lilian Styles	20 yards
1931		Gladys Lunn	2:22.4	Ruth Christmas	20 yards	Dorothy Butterfield	10 yards
1932		Gladys Lunn	2:20.4	Constance Johnson	2:21.8	Dorothy Butterfield	2:28.5e
		800 Metres (except 1945)
1933		Ruth Christmas	2:23.0	Violet Humphries	2 yards	Dorothy Butterfield	15 yards
1934		Gladys Lunn	2:18.3	Ida Jones	2:21.0e	Dorothy Butterfield	2:22.9e
1935		Nellie Halstead	2:15.6 NR	Dorothy Bruty	2:17.2	Constance Furneaux	2:19.3
1936		Olive Hall	2:20.2	Evelyne Forster	2:24.8e	Mary French	2 yards
1937		Gladys Lunn	2:18.5	Nellie Halstead	10 yards	Dorothy Bruty	20 yards
1938		Nellie Halstead	2:20.4	Olive Hall	1 yard	Doris Harris (Roden)	15 yards
1939		Olive Hall	2:21.0	Doris Harris	2:25.5	Miriam Clarke	2:27.4
		1940-1944 Championships not held
1945	880y	Phyllis Richards	2:26.7	Pat Sandall		Joyce Heath
1946		Phyllis Richards	2:21.0	Brenda Harris		Joyce Heath
1947		Nellie Batson	2:23.1	Joyce Heath	2:24.5	Phyllis Richards	2:25.8
1948		Nellie Batson	2:20.3	Dorothy Born	2:22.4	Eileen Garritt	2:24.0
1949		Hazel Spears	2:19.4	Audrey Stanley	2:20.6	Mary Webster
1950		Margaret Hume	2:20.5	Mary Webster	2:21.6	Enid Harding	2:21.8
1951		Nellie Batson	2:18.4	Enid Harding	2:20.2	Margaret Richards	2:24.2
		880 Yards
1952		Margaret Taylor	2:17.5	Enid Harding	2:17.6	Phyllis Green	2:17.8
1953		Anne Oliver	2:15.0	Norah Smalley	2:17.8	Diane Leather	2:18.2
1954		Diane Leather	2:09.0 WR	Anne Oliver	2:11.4	Valerie Winn	2:11.7
1955		Diane Leather	2:09.7	Anne Dawson	2:14.9	Madeleine Wooller	2:15.0
1956		Phyllis Perkins (Green)	2:13.2	Betty Loakes	2:15.7	Madeleine Ibbotson (Wooller)	2:16.1
1957		Diane Leather	2:09.4	Phyllis Perkins	2:10.8	Anne Oliver	2:11.2
1958		Joy Jordan (Buckmaster)	2:13.3	Diane Leather	2:13.4	Maureen Smith	2:14.9
1959		Joy Jordan	2:09.5	Phyllis Perkins	2:10.8	Betty Loakes	2:11.6
1960		Joy Jordan	2:09.1	Phyllis Perkins	2:09.6	Diane Charles (Leather)	2:10.6
1961		Joy Jordan	2:11.0	Anne Oliver	2:13.0	Sallie Newell	2:13.8
1962		Joy Jordan	2:08.0	Phyllis Perkins	2:09.4	Anita Wörner FRG	2:09.8
1963		Phyllis Perkins	2:12.2	Joy Catling	2:13.2	Anne Smith	2:13.2
1964		Anne Smith	2:08.0	Anita Webb	2:10.5	Abby Hoffman CAN	2:12.0
1965		Anne Smith	2:07.5	Pam Piercy	2:09.4	Anne McKenzie RSA	2:09.4
1966		Anne Smith	2:04.2 NR	Ilja Laman NED	2:05.4	Pam Piercy	2:06.7
1967		Anne Smith	2:04.8	Anne McKenzie RSA	2:07.4	Pam Piercy	2:07.4
		800 Metres
1968		Vera Nikolic YUG	2:00.5 WR	Lillian Board	2:02.0	Doris Brown USA	2:02.2
1969		Pat Lowe	2:03.3	Ilja Keizer (Laman) NED	2:03.5	Vera Nikolic YUG	2:04.2
1970		Sheila Carey	2:03.6	Claire Walsh IRL	2:04.9	Lillian Board	2:05.1
1971		Abby Hoffman CAN	2:04.04	Rosemary Stirling	2:04.30	Pat Lowe	2:05.22
1972		Mary Tracey IRL	2:02.98	Pat Cropper (Lowe)	2:03.68	Margaret Coomber	2:04.06
1973		Mary Tracey IRL	2:03.31	Sue Haden NZL	2:03.71	Rosemary Wright (Stirling)	2:05.05
1974		Lesley Kiernan	2:05.12	Mary Purcell (Tracey) IRL	2:09.75	Margaret Coomber	2:10.15
1975		Angela Creamer	2:05.14	Abby Hoffman CAN	2:06.67	Pat O'Dwyer IRL	2:07.74
1976		Angela Creamer	2:04.61	Mary Stewart	2:06.53	Susan Smith	2:06.65
1977		Christina Boxer	2:03.78	Angela Creamer	2:04.04	Janet Prictoe	2:04.88
1978		Christina Boxer	2:03.10	Janet Prictoe	2:03.11	Denise Kiernan	2:05.86
1979		Christine Benning	2:01.24	Janet Prictoe	2:01.66	Liz Barnes	2:02.84
1980		Anne Clarkson	2:01.89	Jane Finch	2:04.15	Julie Asgill	2:05.79
1981		Anne Clarkson	2:03.92	Lorraine Baker	2:04.21	Kirsty McDermott	2:05.63
1982		Terri Cater AUS	2:01.54	Heather Barralet AUS	2:01.67	Lorraine Baker	2:01.86
1983		Shireen Bailey	2:00.58	Anne Purvis (Clarkson)	2:00.74	Christina Boxer	2:00.91
1984		Heather Barralet AUS	2:02.37	Christina Boxer	2:02.66	Anne Purvis	2:02.98
1985		Christina Boxer	2:00.60	Anne Purvis	2:02.41	Suzanne Morley	2:02.79
1986		Diane Edwards	2:04.26	Lorraine Baker	2:04.93	Helen Thorpe	2:05.14
1987		Diane Edwards	2:03.59	Anne Purvis	2:04.40	Helen Thorpe	2:04.61
1988		Kirsty Wade (McDermott)	2:01.52	Shireen Bailey	2:02.49	Helen Thorpe	2:03.06
1989		Diane Edwards	2:01.24	Ann Williams	2:01.84	Lorraine Baker	2:02.23
1990		Ann Williams	2:03.45	Aisling Molloy IRL	2:03.85	Lorraine Baker	2:04.65
1991		Paula Fryer	2:02.19	Lorraine Baker	2:02.76	Sue Bevan	2:03.15
		AAA Championships
1992		Diane Edwards	2:00.41	Paula Fryer	2:01.07	Aisling Molloy IRL	2:01.49
1993		Kelly Holmes	2:02.69	Linda Keough	2:03.93	Lynn Gibson	2:04.92
1994		Diane Modahl (Edwards)	2:01.35	Dawn Gandy	2:03.75	Sonya Bowyer	2:03.79
1995		Kelly Holmes	1:57.56	Jill Stamison USA	2:02.27	Abigail Hunte	2:02.47
1996		Kelly Holmes	1:57.84	Diane Modahl	1:59.87	Natalie Tait	2:02.76
1997	BAF	Kelly Holmes	1:58.59	Hayley Parry	2:02.20	Claire Raven	2:03.15
1997	AAA	Amanda Crowe	2:04.66	Claire Raven	2:05.87	Freda Davoren IRL	2:06.00
1998		Diane Modahl	2:02.73	Tanya Blake	2:03.83	Amanda Crowe	2:05.40
1999		Kelly Holmes	1:59.86	Tanya Blake	2:04.04	Ann Griffiths (Williams)	2:04.41
2000		Kelly Holmes	2:02.08	Claire Raven	2:05.12	Jo Fenn	2:05.48
2001		Kelly Holmes	2:02.61	Tanya Blake	2:04.08	Hayley Tullett	2:04.67
2002		Susan Scott	2:03.89	Jo Fenn	2:04.12	Emma Davies	2:05.52
2003		Lucy Vaughan	2:03.70	Susan Scott	2:04.13	Jennifer Ward	2:04.65
2004		Kelly Holmes	1:59.39	Jo Fenn	2:01.28	Susan Scott	2:02.13
2005		Susan Scott	2:02.97	Jemma Simpson	2:03.34	Jenny Meadows	2:03.37
2006		Rebecca Lyne	2:00.31	Jemma Simpson	2:00.49	Amanda Pritchard	2:00.55
		National Championships
2007		Jemma Simpson	2:00.91	Marilyn Okoro	2:01.53	Jenny Meadows	2:01.72
2008		Marilyn Okoro	1:59.81	Jemma Simpson	2:00.49	Vicky Griffiths	2:02.29
2009		Jemma Simpson	2:01.16	Jenny Meadows	2:01.62	Marilyn Okoro	2:02.94
2010		Jemma Simpson	2:01.50	Vicky Griffiths	2:02.37	Marilyn Okoro	2:02.44
2011		Jenny Meadows	2:02.28	Emma Jackson	2:02.48	Marilyn Okoro	2:03.55
2012		Lynsey Sharp	2:01.72	Jemma Simpson	2:02.29	Jessica Judd	2:02.30
2013		Marilyn Okoro	2:00.60	Jessica Judd	2:02.81	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	2:03.59
2014		Lynsey Sharp	2:01.40	Alison Leonard	2:01.83	Jenny Meadows	2:02.18
2015		Lynsey Sharp	2:02.40	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	2:02.80	Alison Leonard	2:03.26
2016		Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	2:01.99	Lynsey Sharp	2:02.14	Alison Leonard	2:02.45
2017		Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	2:01.54	Adelle Tracey	2:01.80	Lynsey Sharp	2:01.81
2018		Laura Muir	2:01.22	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	2:01.94	Adelle Tracey	2:02.00
2019		Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	2:02.67	Lynsey Sharp	2:02.79	Alexandra Bell	2:02.87
2020		Keely Hodgkinson	2:03.24	Isabelle Boffey	2:04.73	Ellie Baker	2:04.80
2021		Keely Hodgkinson	1:59.61	Jemma Reekie	2:00.12	Laura Muir	2:00.24
2022		Jemma Reekie	2:06.03	Ellie Baker	2:06.26	Isabelle Boffey	2:06.59
2023		Keely Hodgkinson	1:58.26	Jemma Reekie	1:58.93	Alexandra Bell	2:00.68
2024		Phoebe Gill	1:58.66	Jemma Reekie	1:59.28	Erin Wallace	2:00.88
2025		Georgia Hunter-Bell	1:59.53	Jemma Reekie	2:00.97	Abigail Ives	2:01.11

Top Medallists
	1st	2nd	3rd	Total Medals	Years	Year Span
Kelly Holmes	8			8	1993-2004	11
Diane Edwards/Modahl	6	1		7	1986-1998	12
Jemma Simpson	3	4		7	2005-2012	7
Phyllis Green/Perkins	2	4	1	7	1952-1963	11
Lynsey Sharp	3	2	1	6	2012-2019	7
Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	3	2	1	6	2013-2019	6
Diane Leather/Charles	3	1	2	6	1953-1960	7
Anne Clarkson/Purvis	2	3	1	6	1980-1987	7
Marilyn Okoro	2	1	3	6	2007-2013	6
Lorraine Baker		3	3	6	1981-1991	10
Edith Trickey	5			5	1923-1927	4
Gladys Lunn	5			5	1930-1937	7
Joy Buckmaster/Jordan	5			5	1958-1962	4
Anne Smith	4		1	5	1963-1967	4
Christina Boxer	3	1	1	5	1977-1985	8
Jemma Reekie	1	4		5	2021-2025	4
Jenny Meadows	1	1	3	5	2005-2014	9
Lilian Styles		1	4	5	1926-1930	4
Other top winners and long spans
Nellie Batson	3			3	1947-1951	4
Keely Hodgkinson	3			3	2020-2023	3
Abby Hoffman CAN	1	1	1	3	1964-1975	11
Ann Williams/Griffiths	1	1	1	3	1989-1999	10

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