With the Olympic Games in Los Angeles nonetheless three years away there may be nonetheless loads of time for Fitzgerald to enhance.
Under the steerage of former Great Britain runner Jo Pavey and her husband Gavin, Fitzgerald has regularly moved up the ranks over the previous few years.
She is at the moment the second-fastest British lady over 5,000m this 12 months behind reigning UK champion Hannah Nuttall and her newest private finest has pushed her to thirty third on this planet.
“I believe the sky is the restrict by way of what we’re doing,” the sports activities science scholar at Exeter University says.
“It’s good to see the enhancements – on Saturday on the Diamond League it was nice to get the time.
“We form of went into the season with not an excessive amount of expectation. We knew I might run properly and getting that world qualifying time was the primary aim.
“If I got here away from the race having put all the things in and nonetheless not popping out with the time, that wasn’t essentially a nasty run, it might have nonetheless in all probability been a PB.
“It’s a privilege to be put up there with a few of these finest on this planet, and particularly Zola Budd who ran extraordinarily properly 40 years in the past, it simply reveals how issues take time to maneuver on and it is good to form of put my identify in opposition to hers.”