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Matthew Sullivan November 1, 2025 - 6:41AM Share via Email Share on Facebook Share on Whatsapp Copied URL to clipboard Jess Hull sets new 800m Australian record Jess Hull has set a new 800m Australian record at the World Athletics Championship. Source: News.com.au Jess Hull means business and she wants Olympic gold. The 29-year-old has become one of Australia’s most bankable athletes after making the leap to the podium at last year’s Paris Olympics, claiming silver in the 1500m and backing it up with bronze at last month’s world championships. Watch the biggest Aussie sports & the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1. “Now I’ve had a chance to look back and it was a great year, lots to build on going into 2026,” Hull told news.com.au as she gears up for pre-season training back home in Newcastle. She now holds both the 800m and 1500m national records and is turning her attention to one of the toughest tasks in athletics — beating Faith Kipyegon in the 1500m. The Kenyan superstar holds the world record, has won the past three Olympic gold medals in the event and is a four-time world champion over four laps, leaving Hull in awe when she took it out hard at the world championships in Tokyo. “I felt like I was the most ready I’d ever been to compete against her and she threw down another tactic that I’d never seen,” said Hull, speaking as an ambassador for True Protein. “It was a reminder of how good she is and it almost makes me respect her even more in that I knew everything that went into my preparation and she was still ready again to throw something else at me. We’re getting close but we’re not quite there yet. Jessica Hull celebrates after setting a new Australian record in the 800m at the world championships. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) “In Tokyo I wish I was maybe silver, but the bronze is a really good reflection to me of the whole season and coming off an Olympic year and backing it up, the bronze is pretty fitting. “I’m really proud of that one.” Kipyegon skipped the last two Commonwealth Games but with no world championships or Olympics next year, Hull is hopeful her rival will make it to the start line in Glasgow. ‘How do we go for gold now?’: Hull’s next step Middle distance running has traditionally not been a strong suit for Australia in athletics, with field events and race walking the main source of our medals in recent years. Before Hull won silver in the 1500m at the Paris Olympics, you had to go back to Ralph Doubell in 1968 for the last time an Australian won an Olympic medal for running two laps or further on track. The women’s 800m was first contested at the 1928 Olympics, but it was dropped from the roster and reinstated in 1960. The 1500m was added to the Olympic program in 1972 and Hull made history with her breakthrough silver medal in Tokyo. Now a regular on the podium as the fifth fastest 1500m runner ever, Hull wants to win gold, targeting the Commonwealth Games, 2027 world championships and the 2028 LA Olympics. “I want to get better all the time and that metric starts to look like gold now,” Hull said. “Consistency has been a key thing across my career, so the new level of consistency is podiums and medals and looking at that next step of being consistently being one of the best in the world. “It’s switching that mindset from ‘I want to medal or I want to win, to I am going to win’. “That’s something I’m working on now in this lead-in to Glasgow. It’s not just hoping or wishing for a gold, but going out there to execute with the intention of knowing I am the gold medallist.” Jessica Hull (L), Kenyan trio Dorcus Ewoi, Faith Kipyegon and Nelly Chepchirchir celebrate after the women's 1500m final. (Photo by Antonin THUILLIER / AFP) Jess Hull won bronze in the 1500m at the world champs. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) Winning gold in the 1500m would be no mean feat given Australia’s history in track events in recent decades and the dominance of Kipyegon, which could prove a major hurdle for Hull’s quest for gold. But the 29-year-old Aussie is dreaming big and putting it out there — she wants to be Olympic champion. “If I look back and I think about what I probably thought I could do when I was fifteen years old, like every kid you dream of being an Olympian. “But being an Olympic champion is not something that you sort of piece all together until you do those steps along the way that it’s like, ‘Oh I could actually have a real shot at this at some point in my career’. “I got silver in Paris last year and immediately wanted gold. In the moment I’m so stoked with silver, but the natural progression is how do we go for gold now? “So it’s very, very fun to just see like where my mindset has shifted to and I’m really looking forward to trying to piece it all together with the Commonwealth Games next year into a world champs into an Olympics. “I’ve got really great opportunities over the next three years to really step into that position and just give myself a chance.” Australia's Jessica Hull wants to beat Kenya's Faith Kipyegon (centre) in the 1500m. Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP. Hull has always been a talented athlete but she progressed rapidly during her time in the US college system running for the Oregon Ducks, where she won two NCAA titles and earned All-American honours. “For me, the NCAA was crucial, just learning race tactics and racecraft,” she said. “Now on the world stage, it’s never my tactics that let me down. It’s a fitness or a speed thing, and I can work on those, but teaching an athlete tactics is really hard, especially when your biggest races are in a championships when you can’t hear your coach give you one ounce of feedback. “Starting college, I wasn’t the top athlete but every heat you run in is super competitive. Even when I had a PB of 4:20, I’m against 12 other women who can also run 4:20. “So figuring out how to win the D heat at the Stanford Invitational, it just started from way back then where even if you’re not in the top section, you learn how to navigate these fields. “I think I’ve just seen every style of race I could imagine. I’m a student of the sport, I know my competitors, I know their patterns and the way they tend to race. “Now that I have the fitness and experience to mash it all together. When the (final lap) bell goes, I’m still there and know how to make those moves to win the medals. “I see young athletes having their debuts and you seem them disappointed. But the only way to get better is to experience these kinds of races and learn as you go. The only way to learn that skill to execute races and to learn from little mistakes.” Silver in Tokyo, Jess Hull wants gold in LA. (Photo By Alvaro Diaz/Europa Press via Getty Images) Jess Hull on Gout Gout’s ‘best asset’ Gout Gout has wrapped up his high school athletics career with Ipswich Grammar School in Brisbane and is turning his attention to more international racing after making the 200m semi-finals at the world championships in Tokyo. It was a strong senior debut for Gout, who has attracted a massive amount of hype but is being carefully managed by his coach Di Sheppard, who is gradually exposing him to senior races. There’s currently no plan for Gout to go to America to race in college, with the 18-year-old expected to continue training in Brisbane. “I spent a little bit of time with him on the circuit this year when he came to Monaco and I met his coach Di Shepherd and she’s his best asset,” Hull said. “She has his development all mapped out in her own mind and you can just see the way she’s gradually introducing him to the next step — from a training standpoint, increasing load gradually over time, but also from an experience standpoint. Gout Gout is dipping his toe into racing at senior level. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) “This year he did some European races in the Under-23s. It just exposes you to that moment of, ‘OK you’ve travelled from Australia, now you’ve got a race in 10 days. How do we get the body right and ready?’ “That’s very safely opened his eyes up to what the professional world will be without putting everything on him at once. “The experience of the call room and sharing a warm-up area with 40-50 of the best sprinters in the world, who will not give you a lane because you’re Gout Gout or give you the blocks because you’re Gout Gout. “He has exposure to that now at a very young age.” Gout Gout with coach Di Sheppard at his final high school carnival. Photo: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail. The teen sprinter will contest both the Commonwealth Games and World Junior Championships in 2026, with his exact program still to be confirmed. “He’s lucky enough to be the age where he gets two opportunities to compete at World Juniors,” Hull said. Copied URL to clipboard codesports.com.au 'Light work': Gout Gout mobbed by friends and media after breaking 4X100m record Gout Gout has won the last races of his school career and been mobbed... “I’m sure he’ll line up next year in Eugene feeling like a totally different athlete as an 18-year-old, which is it’s pretty wild to think about how accelerated his progression has been. “But at the same time they’re being very mindful about what sets him up to be the best athlete long-term and probably what gives him the best opportunity to really succeed in Brisbane at a home Olympics in 2032. “From observing from the outside I think the partnership between him and Di is so rock solid and I think she’s doing a fantastic job — just gradually exposing him to things but also doing enough that sort of shows like, ‘Hey, we have some work to do, but we’re gonna do it and we’re gonna have a lot of fun along the way and this is how we kind of get to the point where we can match it up with Noah Lyles and (Letsile) Tebogo in the future.” Hull is “locked in on the long-term plan towards LA”, after which she will decide if she wants to go another four years to complete in Brisbane 2032. “LA is definitely on the mind pretty much every day,” she said. “This cycle is different. Every day you think about how do you go one better from silver. Jess Hull is becoming a regular on the podium. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Jess Hull is an ambassador for True Protein. Photo: Supplied. “I’m just locked in on the long-term plan towards LA. Then it will be a hard reset after LA and really looking at do I have the physical and mental capacity to go another four years. “I think I will. I love the sport to death and I want to be in it for a long time. A home Olympics is definitely very exciting to look towards. “But right now I’m all on LA and that starts with Commonwealth Games next year, world championships in 2027 and that will roll into the Olympics.” She’s also decided to try her hand again at the 800m in 2026 after making the final at the world championships, where she took a nasty fall in the heats but successfully protested and set a national record in the semis. The 800m is practically an all-out sprint for Hull, and it’s now a stacked event with Dutch 400m phenom Femke Bol announcing she will focus on the 800m joining the fray with British Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson. “It’s crazy to think I could share a start line with Femke Bol in an 800m in a Diamond League, that’s kind of wild,” Hull said. More Coverage Jess Hull shocks the world, records tumble Ben Talintyre ‘Feels sad’: Gout’s admission after new record Matthew Sullivan The middle distance runner will return to competition in January, but in the meantime it’s full steam ahead in pre-season training and recovering with True Protein products. “I use the whey protein and collagen religiously,” Hull said. “I run twice a day most days so I need to get something in right after training.” Join the conversation (0 Comments) Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? 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