Breaking records around the world made for another stand-out season for Zoe Hobbs in 2022/23. She became the first women in Oceania to run a sub 11 second 100m (10.97) and became the fastest woman to have ever run on Australian soil. At the World Athletics Championships in Budapest she finished 10th, just being edged out of the final by 0.01 seconds. Hobbs, who clocked her new personal best time of 10.96 in July 2023, competed in 5 Diamond League events this year, qualifying for the final and eventually finishing 9th in 11.18. She has run under the Olympic Games qualifying standard of 11.07 and became the first female sprinter to represent New Zealand at the Olympics since 1976 when she raced in the Paris 2024 Games.
Hobbs competed in four Diamond League meetings in 2025, including a sixth place finish in the Diamond League final . In 2026, Hobbs won the 100m at the Oceania Athletics Championships and earned her second Diamond League podium with a third-placed finish at the Bislett Games.
She has consistently dominated domestically, winning nine consecutive national 100m titles since 2017.
Hobbs made history again at the 2026 Commonwealth Games when she won gold in a new personal best time of 10.93 in trying weather conditions.
Off the track Hobbs is a Taranaki Good Sports ambassador and graduated with a Bachelor of Science majoring in human nutritition.
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