Eilidh Doyle claims Vienna victory in European-fastest time
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle ran the fastest 400m indoor time by a European this year as she claimed victory at the Indoor Track & Field Vienna meeting in Austria.
The Rio 2016 Olympic bronze-medallist, coached by Malcolm Arnold at the Sports Training Village, clocked a winning time of 51.86 – just four-tenths of a second outside the lifetime best she set in 2013.
That was well inside the qualifying time for the 2017 European Indoor Championships, taking place in Belgrade, Serbia from March 3-5.
Laura Maddox, coached by Colin Bovell at the University, won the 400m B race in Vienna in 53.37 – the sixth-fastest time in Europe this season.
Doyle will take on Olympic 400m hurdles champion Dalilah Muhammad at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham on February 18.
