Isobel Batt-Doyle

Isobel Batt-Doyle

Personal information
Born	(1995-09-14) 14 September 1995 Adelaide, Australia
Employer	Asics
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Track and Field
Event	Long-distance running

Isobel Batt-Doyle (born 14 September 1995) is an Australian Olympic athlete.

Early years

Batt-Doyle came from a family of runners. Her parents ran marathons, trail races and ultra running. When she was 8-years-old she started little athletics. A year later she ran in the Adelaide City Bay Fun Run. She ran the six kilometres holding her step dad's hand. Batt-Doyle regularly made the state team for cross country and then began track events when still an early teen.

After graduating from Seymour College in Adelaide, Batt-Doyle accepted a US college scholarship for running and went to St. John's University in New York. She transferred to University of Washington in Seattle for her second year. In 2016 and 2017, she decided to run longer distances and competed in 5000m and 10000m events.

Achievements

Batt-Doyle made her debut for Australia at the 2017 World University Games in the 10,000m.

In 2019, she was the NCAA outdoor 10,000m bronze medalist and made the All-America First Team. She also made the All-America Second Team in the 5000m indoors.

In 2020, her boyfriend Riley Cocks took over her coaching. She ran significant personal bests over 3000m and 5000m. The highlight was coming second in the 10,000m at Zatopek in 31:43.26. It was a 37 seconds PB and elevated her from 21st to 10th on the Australian all-time list. (Zatopek is named after Emil Zatopek, the Czech long-distance runner, it is the most prestigious track race in Australia).

In January 2021, she finished second behind Rose Davies at the Australian 10,000m Championships in Melbourne. In May that year, she and Davies secured places in the 5000m at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics as Batt-Doyle won in Nijmegen in a personal best time of 15 minutes 04.10 beating Uganda's Esther Chebet into second with Davies fourth. In the event's heat of the Tokyo Games, Batt-Doyle ran a time of 15:21.65 coming 15th and was therefore eliminated.

On 31 December 2022, she set a world female parkrun best mark of 15:25 at the Aldinga Beach event in Adelaide. She held the record until 23 December 2023, when it was beaten by Ciara Mageean.

On 5 February 2023, Batt-Doyle ran 1:09.27 at the Marugame half marathon in Japan, a new personal best for the distance.

Representing Australia

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time
2023	Valencia Marathon	Valencia, Spain	10th	Marathon	2:23:27
	World Road Running Championships	Riga, Latvia	14th	Half-marathon	1:10:08
	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	43rd	Marathon	2:37:53
	Nagoya Women's Marathon	Nagoya, Japan	10th	Marathon	2:27:54
	World Cross Country Championships	Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia	29th	10km	36:17
2022	Melbourne Marathon	Melbourne, Australia	2nd	Marathon	2:28:10
	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, England	8th	5000m	15:13.53
			8th	10,000m	32:04.52
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	28th	5000 m	15:21.65
2019	Summer Universiade	Naples, Italy	6th	10,000 m	34:21.45
2017	Summer Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	7th	10,000 m	34:32.13

Personal bests

• 3000 metres - 8:47.99 (Sydney 2024)
• 5000 metres – 14:59.18 (Melbourne 2024)
• 10,000 metres – 31:40.10 (London 2022)

Road

• 5 kilometres – 15:57 (Noosa 2021)
• 10 kilometres – 32:10 (Launceston 2020)
• Half-marathon - 1:09.27 (Marugame 2023)
• Marathon – 2:23:27 (Valencia 2023)
• Parkrun – 15:25 (Adelaide 2022) World best

External links

• Isobel Batt-Doyle at World Athletics
• Isobel Batt-Doyle at Olympedia
• Isobel Batt-Doyle at Olympics.com
• Isobel Batt-Doyle at the Australian Olympic Committee