Neil Gourley

Neil Gourley
Neil Gourley (2019)
Full name	Neil Gourley
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	7th February 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Glasgow ,  UK
Career
discipline	1500 m
Best performance	3: 35.95 min
society	Giffnock North
Trainer	Mark Rowland
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
U23 European Championships bronze Tallinn 2015 1500 m
last change: August 1st, 2020

Neil Gourley (born February 7, 1995 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish athlete who specializes in the 1,500 meter run .

Life

Neil Gourley was born in Glasgow where he grew up with a brother. In his youth, before taking up athletics, he played rugby and soccer. In 2014 he started studying mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech in the USA, for whose sports team he competed in the college championships. Since graduating, he has been training with Mark Rowland in Eugene , Oregon .

Athletic career

Gourley first appeared in competitions over the distances of 800 and 1500 meters in 2012. Over 1500 meters he finished eighth in the British U20 championships. In 2014, after moving to the USA, he was able to improve to 3: 48.62 minutes in his first competition. In 2015 he took part in the British U23 championships in summer, where he emerged victorious, and a month later he also started at the U23 European championships in Tallinn. He moved into the final, in which he won the bronze medal with a time of 3: 45.04 minutes. After he was able to improve to a time of 3: 39.92 minutes in 2016, he again took part in the U23 European Championships a year later , this time in Bydgoszcz. There he was able to move into the final again, but in fourth place narrowly missed the podium. In 2019 he took part in the international adult championships for the first time at the European Indoor Championships in his hometown. As the winner of the first heat, he made it to the final straight away, but couldn't start there due to illness. In his first open-air competition in 2019, he was able to increase his personal best in Seattle to 3: 35.95 min. During this time he also met the norm for the World Championships in Doha, where he competed in October. After he was able to successfully contest the preliminary and semi-finals there, he was finally in the World Cup final. In it he ran a time of 3: 37.30 minutes, with which he finished in eleventh and penultimate place.

Gourley has won two British adult titles so far (2019, one indoor and one outdoor).

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	time
Starts for United Kingdom
2015	U23 European Championships	Tallinn	3.	1500 m	3: 45.04 min
2017	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz	4th	1500 m	3: 49.53 min
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow	8th.	1500 m	3:46:63 min (lead time)
	World championships	Doha	11.	1500 m	3: 37.30 min

Personal best

open air

• 800 m : 1: 46.12 min, July 9, 2019, Azusa
• 1500 m : 3: 35.95 min, June 15, 2019, Seattle

Hall

• 800 m: 1: 47.04 min, February 24, 2018, Clemson
• 1000 m: 2: 20.54 min, February 18, 2017, Blacksburg
• 1500 m: 3: 38.32 min, February 16, 2019, Birmingham

Web links

Commons : Neil Gourley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Neil Gourley in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Neil Gourley in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on thepowerof10.info
2. ↑ Profile on hokiesports.com
3. ↑ profile on britishathletics.org.uk
4. ↑ Results on european-athletics.org
5. ^ Tyrone Smith: World Athletics Championships: Neil Gourley not heading to Doha 'just to be tourist'. In: BBC.com. September 25, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2020 .