Adelaide Omitowoju

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Adelaide Omitowoju
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1999-10-22) 22 October 1999 (age 25)
Sport
Club Harrow AC [1]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Triple jump: 13.90m (Birmingham, 2025)

Adelaide Omitowoju (born 22 October 1999) is a British triple jumper. [2]

Biography

Omitowoju won the triple jump gold medal competing for Cambridgeshire, at the 2017 English Schools' AA Track & Field Championships, with a personal best of 12.30m. [3]

She won triple jump titles at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) championships both indoors and outdoors in 2023 competing for the University of Sheffield. [4]

In July 2023, she placed third in the triple jump at the 2023 British Athletics Championships with a personal best of 13.10 metres to finish behind Temi Ojora and event winner Georgina Forde-Wells in July 2023 in Manchester. [5] [6]

She was runner-up to Lily Hulland at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships with a jump of 12.94 metres [7] [8] and placed fourth in the 2024 British Athletics Championships behind Hulland, Ojora and Naomi Metzger with a jump of 13.12 metres [9]

Omitowoju was runner-up to Forde-Wells in the triple jump at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham with a jump of 13.29 metres [10] and won the England Athletics title with 13.29 metres in July 2025, [11] before winning her first senior national title in the triple jump at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham on 2 August 2025, with a personal best 13.62 metres.

References

  1. "Adelaide Omitowoju". The Power of 10. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  2. "Adelaide Omitowoju". World Athletics. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  3. Taylor, Mark (14 July 2017). "Siobhan Skinner hails the efforts of Cambridgeshire athletes at English Schools' AA Championship". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  4. Henson, John (2 May 2023). "Rising stars of Sheffield Athletics victorious at British Universities & Colleges Sports Athletics Championships" . Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  5. "UK Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 8 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  6. Casey, Jeremy (17 July 2023). "Northampton's Georgie Forde-Wells claims UK triple jump title". Northampton Chronicle. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  7. "UK pole vault champion sets sights on World Indoors medal". Times-Series. 21 February 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  8. "Results UK Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  9. "UK Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  10. "GOURLEY & MILLS LEAD WAY WITH RECORDS AT MICROPLUS UK ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMP". British Athletics. 23 February 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  11. "England Athletics Senior & U20 Championships". World Athletics. 25 July 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.