Personal information | |
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Nationality | British |
Born | 27 November 2006 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Hurdles |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 100m hurdles: 14.03s (2024) Long jump 6.05m (2024) |
Eden Robinson (born 27 November 2006) is a Welsh multi-event athlete. She won the heptathlon at the 2024 British Athletics Championships and competed in the heptathlon for Great Britain at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships. [1]
She was educated at Millfield. In October 2024, she was named Welsh junior athlete of the year. [2]
She is a member of the Cardiff Archers athletics club, in Cardiff, Wales. [3]
She was the 2023 England under-17 heptathlon silver medallist. [4] In September 2023, she finished third in the heptathlon at the English Schools Combined Event & Race Walk Championships, in Bedford, behind winner Thea Brown. Robinson's tally of 5213 points moved her to eighth on the British U-17 all-time list, ahead of Katarina Johnson-Thompson. [5]
She won the heptathlon title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Birmingham, with a tally of 5597 points. [6] [7]
She was selected for the long jump competition for the British under-20 team at the Mannheim International in Germany in June 2024. [8] She competed in the heptathlon, at the age of 17 years-old, at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, placing fifth overall and moving third on the Welsh all-time rankings for the heptathlon with a tally of 5597 points. [9] [10] Her performance included a personal best of 14.03 in the 100m hurdles. [11]
In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [12] She was named in the British team for the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere. [13]
She is the daughter of British long jumper Michelle Griffith-Robinson and Welsh rugby union international player Matthew Robinson. She has brothers Reese and Elijah. [14] [15]