STEPH TWELL is a successful professional athlete who continues to race worldwide. A normal Scottish Distance Running History profile would be inadequate. However, here is a brief outline from a Scottish perspective.
Stephanie TWELL (17.08.89) Aldershot Farnham & District
In Scottish lists 2009-2019
Championship Record: World 2009 1500 (ht), European 2010 1500 (7th), World 2015 5000 (12th), World Indoors 2016 3000 (6th); European 2016 5000 (3rd); Olympics 2016 5000 (ht), European Indoors 2017 3000 (5th), World 2017 5000 (ht), European 2018 5000 (10th), World 2019 10,000 (15th); Commonwealth 2010 1500 (3rd), 5000 (4th); Commonwealth 2014 5000 (14th), Commonwealth 2018 1500 (7th), 5000 (14th).
Great Britain: 1st 5000 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018; 1st 10,000 2019; 2nd 1500 2009, 2nd 10,000 2017; 1st 3000 Indoors 2016, 2nd 3000 Indoors 2017.
Scottish: 1st 1500 2013.
In the annual top ten Scottish rankings, Steph Twell was first in the: 1500m (2009, 2010, 2012); 3000m (2010, 2016); 5000m (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016); 10,000m (2019); Marathon (2018, 2019). Her 2019 time of 2.26.40 was a new Scottish Record.
Steph Twell ran for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games in 2010, 2014 and 2018, racing 1500m and 5000m.
On the road, she raced twice for Scotland (in the 2014 Leeds 10k, which she won, leading Scotland to victory over England and Norway; and in the 2018 Commonwealth Half Marathon Championship, when she finished seventh [first Scot] in 72.32).
Steph ran for Scotland twice over cross-country: in 2016 at Edinburgh, in a 4x1k Mixed Relay, Scotland (including Steph Twell and Laura Muir) won, defeating GB & NI, Ireland and Scotland B. Steph also ran in a similar event at Edinburgh in 2018. She has run cross-country at Edinburgh several times; and competed in other Scottish events such as the 2014 Lenzie Jog 9k, where Steph won and her future husband finished a close second!
Running for Kilbarchan AC, Steph Twell won the 2019 Scottish Senior National Cross-Country title.
Steph’s Wikipedia page is detailed and fascinating! So is her Power of 10 list.