Sarah Billings
Sarah Billings is a track and field athlete from Australia. She is a former national champion over 1500 metres.
Early life
She attended Melbourne University. Billings grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Kew and attended Ruyton Girls School.Career
Billings competed at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in the 800 metres and 4 × 400 m relay. The following year, she won the national U20 title over 800 metres. She won the Australian national 1500 metres title in Melbourne in December 2019. However, a string of injuries limited her to just four races over the two-year period of 2020–2021.She was a pacemaker at the Diamond League event in Stockholm in 2022. In November 2022, she won the Victorian 5000 m Championships at Box Hill, Victoria. In February 2023, she ran a personal best of 4:32.30 for the mile to finish second at the Cooks Classic Mile in Wanganui. In June 2023, she acted as a pacemaker for Beatrice Chebet to break a 24-year old meet record at the Diamond League event in Oslo.
She ran a personal best of 4:38.97 for the road Mile at the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga.
In April 2024, she finished fourth in the woman's 1500 m at the Australian Athletics Championships. The following week she set a new personal best of 3:59.59 for the distance, inside the Olympic qualifying time for the 2024 Games in Paris, at the 2024 Xiamen Diamond League.
She won the 1500 m at the World Continental Tour Gold event in Tokyo on 19 May 2024.
She was selected for the 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025. She finished second at the Australian Athletics Championships over 1500 metres in 4:11.51 on 12 April 2025. She ran a personal best 2:33.45 for the 1000 metres at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025. Competing at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League, she ran a personal best 1:57.83 to place second in the women's 800 m race. On 6 June 2025, she finished second over 1500 metres at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome, part of the 2025 Diamond League, running 3:59.24. She ran a 2:33.17 personal best over 1000 metres in Monaco at the 2025 Herculis. She placed seventh in the 800 metres at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August. In September 2025, she competed over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the semi-finals.