Elle Purrier St. Pierre

Purrier after winning silver at the2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres
Personal information
Full name	Elinor Purrier St. Pierre
Born	Elinor Purrier (1995-02-20)February 20, 1995 (age 30) Montgomery Center, Vermont, U.S.
Height	5 ft 3 in (160 cm)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	1500 m One mile 3000 m 3000 m steeplechase 5000 m
College team	New Hampshire
Club	New Balance Boston
Turned pro	2018
Coached by	Mark Coogan
Medal record Women'sathletics Representingthe United States World Indoor Championships 2024 Glasgow 3000 m 2022 Belgrade 3000 m

Elinor Purrier St. Pierre (born February 20, 1995), better known asElle Purrier St. Pierre,^[a] is an Americantrack and field athlete who specializes inmiddle-distance andlong-distance running. She won a gold medal in the3000 meters at the2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships inGlasgow. Purrier is a two-time Olympian for the United States, making the final in the 1500m at both the2020 and2024 Olympic Games.

Purrier was raised inMontgomery Center, Vermont, a small town near theCanadian border.^[1][2] She lived on a dairy farm, where she woke up at 5 a.m. each day before school to milk cows and perform other chores, such as throwing hay bales and caring for pigs.^[1][3] AtRichford High School, Purrier took up running alongside basketball. She competed at a high level in track and cross country, with first-place finishes at the New England Cross Country Championships and Northeast Regional championships for theNike Cross Nationals. She was named Vermont Gatorade Cross Country Athlete of the Year three times, receiving the honor in 2010, 2011, and 2012.^[4] Purrier was inducted into the hall of fame of the Vermont Principals' Association in 2022.^[4]

Purrier competed for theUniversity of New Hampshire from 2013 to 2018, where she was NCAA champion and an 11-time All-American.^[5] As a freshman, she ran 4:36 in the mile.^[6] By her sophomore year, she improved her time to 4:29.71, setting a school record and achieving one of the top ten fastest times by a collegiate athlete. Her fast time in the mile marked her as a favorite to win the event at the2016 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships.^[6] At those championships, she finished third after leading for much of the race but was overtaken in the final stretch.^[7] Later that year, Purrier improved one place to take second in the mile at the2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Following several podium finishes at previous NCAA championships, Purrier won a title in the mile at the2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, finishing in 4:31.76. She led for most of the race and finished just ahead ofDani Jones andNiki Hiltz, with less than a second difference between them.^[8]

Purrier also competed at a high level in the steeple while at theUniversity of New Hampshire. In 2014, she won a national title in the 3000 meter steeplechase,^[9] and went on to place ninth in the final of the event at the2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Later in her collegiate career, she finished third in the steeplechase at the2016 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships. In 2016, theU.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association named Purrier its Northeast Region Track Athlete of the Year.^[10]

Purrier majored in nutrition, graduating in 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Purrier signed withNew Balance in July 2018.^[11]

At the2019 USA Indoor Championships, Purrier finished sixth in the mile and won the bronze medal in the two miles. At the2019 USA Outdoor Championships, she won the bronze medal in the 5000 m.^[12] She competed at the2019 World Championships in October and finished 11th in the5000 m.^[13]

At the 2020Millrose Games on February 8, Purrier broke theAmerican record for the indoor mile with a time of 4:16.85.^[14] At the2020 USA Indoor Championships, she finished fourth in the 5000 m.^[12]

On February 13, 2021, Purrier broke the American indoor two mile record with a time of 9:10.28.^[15] At the2020 USA Olympic Trials, she won the gold medal in the 1500 m with a time of 3:58.03, setting a personal best and breaking the meet record.^[16] She competed at the2020 Olympic Games in August 2021. She finished 10th in the1500 m.^[12]

At the2022 USA Indoor Championships, Purrier won the bronze medal in the 1500 m and the gold medal in the 3000 m. She competed at the2022 World Indoor Championships in March and won the silver medal in the3000 m.^[17]

While pregnant, Purrier competed at the2022 USA Outdoor Championships and won the bronze medal in the 1500 m.^[18] She competed at the2022 World Championships in July and did not advance to the final of the1500 m.

In February 2024, Purrier broke her own American record at the Wanamaker Mile race at theMillrose Games in New York City, running 4:16.41.^[19] In her first major international competition since giving birth to her first child, she won gold in the 3000 meters at the2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships inGlasgow, Scotland.^[20] Her race set the American record for the 3000m.

Purrier is a dairy farmer fromVermont.^[18] She married her longtime boyfriend Jamie St. Pierre in 2020 and gave birth to their son in March 2023.^[12] Their second son was born in May 2025.^[21]

The St. Pierre family runs the Pleasant Valley Farm inBerkshire, Vermont. In April 2025,U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents raided the farm and detained eight undocumented migrant farmworkers.^[22][23] It has been called the "largest immigration enforcement action in recent Vermont history" and was described as an "injustice" by members of the Migrant Justice Farmworker Coordinating Committee.^[24]

Representing the United States

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	9th	3000 m s'chase	10:21.59
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	11th	5000 m	14:58.17
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	10th	1500 m	4:01.75
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	2nd	3000 m	8:42.04
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	1st	3000 m	8:20.87
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	8th	1500 m	3:57.52

All sourced fromWorld Athletics, as of February 11, 2024.^[27]

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