Emily Newnham

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Emily Newnham
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (2004-05-19) 19 May 2004 (age 21)
Sport
Sport Athletics
EventHurdles
Club Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m: 50.84 (Madrid, 2025)
400m hurdles: 54.08 (Bergen, 2025)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Apeldoorn 4x400 m relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2025 Apeldoorn 4x400 m mixed relay
European U23 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Bergen 400m hurdles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2025 Bergen 4x400 m relay

Emily Newnham (born 19 May 2004) is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for Great Britain as a sprinter and a hurdler. [1]

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Career

She was English Schools Champion over 400 metres hurdles in 2020, Running a time of 59.22 seconds in Manchester. [2]

2023

She won the British Universities and College (BUCS) indoors 400 metres title in February 2023. [3]

She won the British U20 400m hurdles title in Chelmsford in June 2023 with a time of 58.54 seconds. [4] She was a bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles at the 2023 British Athletics Championships in Manchester in 2023, running a 57.13 personal best. [5] She finished fourth in the 400m hurdles at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem. [6]

She made her Diamond League debut at the 2023 Weltklasse Zürich on 31 August 2023. [7]

2024

In February 2024, she won the British Universities and College (BUCS) indoors 400m in a championship record time of to 53.06. [8]

In April 2024, she was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. [9] She ran in the final of the event as the British 4 × 400 m team finished fourth overall. [10] She was selected to run the 4x400 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. [11]

In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [12]

2025

She ran an indoors personal best of 52.16 seconds to finish third in the 400 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025. [13] She was selected for the British 4 × 400 m relay team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, winning a bronze medal in the mixed 4 × 400 m relay. [14] [15] She won a silver medal in the women’s 4x400 metres relay alongside Lina Nielsen, Amber Anning and Hannah Kelly, with the quartet setting a new national record of three minutes, 24.89 seconds. [16]

She was named in the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou in May 2025. [17] She ran in the mixed 4 x 400 metres relay, alongside Josh Faulds, Sam Lunt and Nicole Yeargin as the British quartet won their heat to qualify for the final and secure a place for Britain at the 2025 World Championships. [18] On the second day of the competition she ran in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay and also helped the British team qualify in that event. [19] Later that month, she lowered her personal best to 51.45 for the 400 metres and also ran a 400m hurdles personal best of 55.20, whilst competing in Brussels. [20] In June 2025, she ran a 54.49 400m hurdles race in Geneva. [21] She was selected for the 400 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships, where she ran a personal best 50.84 seconds on 28 June 2025. [22] [23] The following day, she also competed in the mixed 4 x 400 metres, in which Britain finished in third place, in the same time as the second-placed Italian team. [24]

She won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles in a championship record and personal best time of 54.08 seconds to win by over a second from the rest of the field at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway on 19 July 2025. Her time was also just 0.05 away from former Olympic champion Sally Gunnell’s British U23 record. [25] Later in the championships, she ran as part of the gold medal winning British 4 x 400 metres relay team. [26]

She was runner-up to Lina Nielsen at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships on 3 August 2025 in Birmingham. [27] She was selected as part of the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [28]

Personal life

She is from Kent. [29] She is a student at Loughborough University. [30]

References

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  2. Smythe, Steve (11 July 2022). "Young athletes shine at English Schools Champs". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
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  29. "Kent Schools Track & Field Championships 2019". Kentonline. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  30. "Our 2022/23 Scholars". lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2024.