Charles Da'Vall Grice (born 7 November 1993), informally known as Charlie Grice, is a British middle-distance athlete.

Athletics career

Grice started out as both a footballer, playing at county level, and an athlete, but balancing them both led to injuries, and he decided to solely focus on athletics. He had a breakthrough in 2010, when he broke the English Schools' Athletics Association Championships record in the final of the 1500 metres as well as taking the title. He went on from this to win bronze at the

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in the

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, after coming second at the European Trials event in Russia. In 2012 he broke

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's British junior mile record, running 3:57.90 at the

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in Crystal Palace as part of the

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. In doing this at the age of 18, he became one of less than 75 athletes who had achieved a sub-four minute mile clocking by the age of 18. Also that year, he was knocked out in the heats of the

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at the World Junior Championships after finishing one place outside the automatic qualification places in a slow race, preventing him from securing a 'fastest loser' place. He made his international breakthrough in 2013, winning a silver medal at the European U23 Championships, as well as setting a new PB over 1500 metres at an international standard

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meeting. He also received his first senior British vest as he competed in the European Team Championships. In 2014 he won the British Outdoor Athletics Championships 1500 metres title, winning his heat by half a second and the final by over a second as he took his first senior title at the age of 20. Later in 2014 he went on to compete at the

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and the

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, both times in the 1500 metres. At the

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he came second in his heat, with the third fastest time of the first round, but then fell twice in the final, causing him to run his slowest time since 2010 and come in twelfth. At the Commonwealths he was second in his heat, and came seventh in the final. In 2015 he won the British Indoor title over 1500 metres, which qualified him for the

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, where he came fifth in the

final. He then won British U23 and Senior 1500 metres titles, before going to Beijing at the end of August to compete in the

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. He qualified automatically in the heats and the semi-finals, but then came ninth in the

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. In 2016 Grice won the British Indoor 1500 metres title, was knocked out in the heats of the World Indoor Championships and competed at the Eugene Diamond League, winning the International Mile race and setting a PB by almost two seconds. At the

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meeting on 11 July 2019, in Monaco, Grice set another PB of 3:30.62, to overtake Steve Ovett on the all-time list, placing him fourth, behind

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and

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grice, Charlie Living people Athletes from Brighton 1993 births English male middle-distance runners British male middle-distance runners Olympic male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for England Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain British Athletics Championships winners 21st-century English sportsmen