Wellington’s Women middle-distance duo selected for WIC
Alison Andrews-Paul [Athletics Wairarapa] and Maia Ramsden [WHAC] have been named for World Indoors Track & Field Championships in Nanjing, China in the 800 metres and 1500 metres respectively. The Worlds take place between 21-23 March.
WHAC club member Maia Ramsden will return for her 2nd World Indoor Championships after competing in Glasgow event last year, before she went on to run superbly at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ramsden has shown superb early 2025 form indoors with her recent NZ Mile record performance in Boston. Ramsden is now based in Boulder, Colorado after graduating from Harvard. She is coached by Dathan Ritzenhein.
Athletics Wairarapa club member Alison Andrews-Paul is selected for her 1st Senior World Championships event. Andrews-Paul was a 2016 NZL Under 20 World Champs representative over 800m in Bydgoszcz POL where she was 5th in the semis and more recently the 2024 Oceania Champion.
Andrews-Paul commented that her trip back to NZL from her Vancouver base to compete in the three Central Classics in January set her up nicely for the selection. In those events she won the NZ mile Championship at the Cooks Classic in Wanganui, paced the women to a Meet record breaking 1500m in the Capital Classic and won the prestigious Sylvia Potts 800m in Hastings. She recently set a new Wellington 800m record running 2.00.81. Alison Andrews-Paul is coached in Vancouver by Brit Townsend {McRoberts], a former Canadian rep in middle distance who raced in NZL during the 1980’s and the 1900 Commonwealth Games.
Full NZ ranking profiles are here for
Alison Andrews-Paul
Maia Ramsden
World Athletics Indoor Championships site
Full NZL team announcement is here
