Personal information | |
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Nationality | British |
Born | Ghana [1] | 22 June 1992
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | sprint |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 60 m : 6.60s (2022) 100 m : 9.93s (2023) 200 m : 21.79s (2019) |
Eugene Amo-Dadzie (born 22 June 1992) [2] is a British athlete who competes as a sprinter. He was a bronze medalist over 60 metres at the 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships and the 2023 British Athletics Championships.
Amo-Dadzie didn’t start competing until he was twenty-six years-old, by which time he was a qualified chartered accountant. He competed at the British Athletics Championships for the first time in 2019, finishing fifth in his semi-final. [3]
A Woodford Green athlete, Amo-Dadzie ran a new personal best time over 100m of 10.20 seconds to finish second at the 2021 British Athletics Championships in Bedford. [4] In August 2022 he lowered his 100m personal best to 10.05 in Stratford. This placed him third over 100m by fastest time by UK athletes in 2022. [5] [6]
In February 2023 he finished third behind Reece Prescod and Jeremiah Azu at the British Indoor Athletics Championships 60m race, held in Birmingham. [7] They were subsequently selected for the Great Britain squad for the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships held at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul. [8] He qualified for the semi-finals of the 60m on his major championships debut. [9]
On 16 June 2023 he clocked 9.93 seconds for the 100m wearing an iconic TF1 Athletic all-in-one suit at a meeting in Graz, Austria to break the 10-second barrier for the first time. [10] In July 2023, competing at the British Championships in Manchester, he reached the final in the 100m and finished third overall. [11]
He was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, to make his world championship debut at the age of 31 [12] He reached the semi-finals of the 100 metres. [13] [14] Later that year he was granted UK Sport’s national lottery funded world class programme for the first time. [15]
In April 2024, he was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. [16]
From Rainham, Amo-Dadzie said he felt a responsibility to speak out to encourage BAME people to consider taking the covid-19 vaccine in order to quell concerns they may have. Eugene is married with children. [17] His parents are of Ghanaian heritage and his mother worked as a social carer and his father worked on the London Underground. He has two sisters. [18] After university he began working in accounting; as of 2023 he was working as a senior accountant for a subsidiary of Berkeley Group, St George plc. [14]
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