Elle Purrier St. Pierre, a Vermont dairy farmer turned track star, has done it again. Just weeks after breaking her own record for the U.S. women’s indoor mile, Purrier St. Pierre won the women’s 3,000-meter race at the World Athletics Indoor Championship in Glasgow, Scotland.
Not only did Purrier St. Pierre win the race, but she also broke records for both the North American and championship times with her new event time of 8 minutes and 20.87 seconds, taking nearly 5 seconds off her personal best.
In 2020, Purrier St. Pierre finished 10th in the women’s 1,500-meter race at the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.The Olympian has been training to compete in the 2024 season ever since she gave birth to her son, Ivan, almost one year ago to the day from her race in Scotland.
Purrier St. Pierre grew up on a 40-cow operation in Vermont, but never left the farm, as she and her husband still live on a dairy farm today. The runner married her high-school sweetheart, Jamie St. Pierre, and would compete against him at 4-H events growing up. Jamie studied dairy management at Cornell, is a dairy farmer, and works on his family’s dairy farm also located in Vermont.
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