Brodie Young (athlete)

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Brodie Young
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (2003-02-28) 28 February 2003 (age 22)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event 400 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m: 45.34 (Bergen, 2025)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
European U23 Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Bergen 400m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Espoo 4x400m relay
European Athletics U20 Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Tallinn 4x400 m relay

Brodie Young (born 28 February 2003) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2025, he became Scottish indoor record holder over 400 metres. [1]

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Early life

Young is from Chryston, in Scotland. In 2022, he started the first year of a four-year scholarship at the University of New Mexico. [2]

Career

A member of the Airdrie Harriers, Young won back-to-back Scottish Senior Championship gold medals in the 400 metres in 2021 and 2022. [3] He was a member of the gold medal winning 4 × 400 m team at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn in 2021. [4] He represented Great Britain at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, in August 2022. [3]

He ran a personal best time of 45.82 time for the 400 metres in Clovis, California in 2023. [2] He was selected for the British team for the European Team Games in Silesia in June 2023. [5] He was a member of the bronze medal winning 4 × 400 m team at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo in 2023, and ran in the 400 metres individual race. [6]

In April 2024, he was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. [7] He ran at the championships as the British mixed 4 × 400 m team qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [8]

In February 2025, he ran a time of 45.96 for an indoor 400m run in Albuquerque to best the 400m Scottish Indoor Record set by Brian Whittle who had run 45.98 in Hungary in 1988. [9] He lowered it again the following week at the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque. His time of 45.66 lower by 0.3s from the record he set the previous week. [10]

He ran a 45.34 seconds personal best to win the bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway. [11]

References

  1. "Brodie Young". World Athletics. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  2. 1 2 McGilvray, Andy (16 July 2023). "Athlete Brodie Young is living the American dream as he nets GB call-up". Daily Record. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  3. 1 2 Thomson, Paul (11 September 2022). "Airdrie Harriers teen labelled 'world-class' as he starts University of New Mexico". Daily Record. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  4. "Gold rush for Britain at the European U20 Champs". Athletics Weekly. July 18, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  5. "Five Scots named for European Team Champs – with four sprinters!". Scottish Athletics. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  6. "KEELY HODGKINSON AND JEREMIAH AZU TO CAPTAIN GB & NI AT EUROPEAN U23 CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  7. "Ujah returns to British squad for world relays". BBC Sport. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  8. Henderson, Jason (May 5, 2024). "British relay runners qualify for Paris en masse in The Bahamas". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  9. "Record breaker! Brodie brings down Men's Indoor mark over 400m . . . after 37 years". Scottish Arhletics. 9 February 2025. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  10. "New records set and 14 BUCS medals over bumper weekend". Scottish Athletics. 17 Feb 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  11. Mills, Steven (19 July 2025). "Championship record! Jaeger blazes to European U23 400m gold in 49.74". European Athletics. Retrieved 19 July 2025.