With the 2024 Games just eight months away, Atlanta Track Club announces the addition of four athletes to a team that in its brief history has already featured three Olympians and a Paralympian, while sending members to several World Championships and putting two into the American and Swedish record books.
New to Atlanta Track Club Elite are Luciano Fiore, who brings a 1:46.44 personal best for 800 meters; Aidan Ryan, a two-time NCAA Division III champion; Gabrielle Wilkinson, a six-time All-American; and Rob Heppenstall, a two-time Canadian national champion.
“We are already hard at work preparing for an important year,” said Tom Nohilly, in his first season as coach of the Elite team. “We have a lot of experience and even more potential on this roster. I’m looking forward to seeing us mix it up with the best in the world.”
The new recruits join a group of veterans that includes Olivia Baker (USA), who competed at the 2023 World Indoor Championships at 800 meters and owns a personal best of 1:58.05; Shane Streich (USA), the American indoor record-holder at 1,000 meters (2:16.16); Yolanda Ngarambe (SWE), a 2019 World Championships semi-finalist and Swedish national champion indoors and outdoors at 1,500 meters, who also holds her country’s indoor mile record; Sadi Henderson (USA), fifth at 800 meters at both the 2022 USATF Outdoor and Indoor Championships; Hannah Segrave (GBR), a 2019 UK Athletics Championships finalist at 800 meters and 2017 and 2017 Under-23 European Championships bronze medalist; and Bridget Belyeu (USA), a three-time qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Marathon.
In keeping with Atlanta Track Club’s belief that athletes should give back to their sport and community, the newest members will join the veterans in having a role with the Club that goes beyond their stats – such as Baker’s leadership of the “Runners Who Read” book club and Henderson’s work with the Club’s Kilometer Kids program.
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