Gill Out Of Belfast Meet But Top Canadian Signs Up

English prima Phoebe Gill has been forced to propulsion retired of adjacent month's Belfast Irish Milers Meet but world-class Canadian jock Gabriela DeBues-Stafford has been added to nan event's entries.

Gill, past aged 17, stunned nan athletics world by clocking 1 infinitesimal 57.86 to gain a runaway 800m triumph astatine nan Belfast gathering past year - 4 seconds wrong her erstwhile individual champion - arsenic she collapsed nan 45-year-old European under-18 record.

The St Albans runner, who went connected triumph nan UK Olympic tests earlier reaching nan semi-finals astatine nan Paris Games, was scheduled to tally nan 1500m successful Belfast connected 10 May but wounded intends she will beryllium incapable to title astatine nan Mary Peters Track.

"It's 1 of those things but Phoebe has said that she intends to beryllium backmost successful Belfast successful 2026 and we'll look guardant to welcoming her again aft nan unthinkable effect she made past year," said gathering head Eamonn Christie.

"While we've mislaid Phoebe, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, who vanished 5th successful nan Olympic 1500m last successful Tokyo successful what was her 2nd Olympics, is nan latest summation to nan meet and she will tally nan 3,000m."

DeBues-Stafford, 29, clocked 3:58.93 successful nan Olympic 1500m last successful 2001 arsenic Faith Kipyegon, Laura Muir and Sifan Hassan clinched nan medals.

The Canadian, now coached successful Edinburgh by 1988 Olympic 3,000m steeplechase bronze medallist Mark Rowland, had an injury-affected run successful 2022 and 2023. She didn't compete successful Paris past year, is now very overmuch connected nan comeback trail.

"Gabriela's 3,000m individual champion is simply a very accelerated 8:33.92 and she is looking for an 8:40 gait connected 10 May truthful I'm sorting nan pacemakers to springiness her each opportunity to do that," added Christie.

"She really heard astir nan gathering and contacted maine asking if she could get a spot and evidently I'm only excessively delighted to accommodate an jock of specified quality."

Sam Reardon, Great Britain's double Olympic relay medallist from Paris, is among different large names who will title successful Belfast.

The 21-year-old will compete complete nan 400m, while nan men's 800m section includes past year's victor Callum Dodds and his chap Great Britain internationals Daniel Rowden and Tom Randolph.

Dodds collapsed 1 infinitesimal and 45 seconds for nan first clip to clinch triumph successful a way grounds of 1:44.79 astatine past year's meet arsenic Randolph besides went nether 1:45, but Rowden will beryllium nan quickest man connected individual bests successful nan 800m section by kindness of his individual champion of 1:43.95 from 2023.

With Gill ruled out, Great Britain's double European inferior transverse state champion Innes FitzGerald will lead nan women's 1500m entries while nan women's 800m section will see erstwhile Belfast Milers Meet victor Louise Shanahan, Czech champion Kimberley Ficenec and Scotland's Erin Wallace, who clocked 2:00.23 to decorativeness 2nd down Gill past year.