Eugene Amo-Dadzie

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Eugene Amo-Dadzie
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1992-06-22) 22 June 1992 (age 32)
Ghana [1]
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 60 m : 6.59s (2025)
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.

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Career

Late starter

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]

First British selection

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]

Breaking the ten-second barrier

On 16 June 2023 he clocked 9.93 seconds for the 100m 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]

Personal life

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]

References

  1. ↑ Fameso, Funmilayo. "From 9-5 to 9.9: World's fastest accountant signs professional contract with Nike". Pulse Sports. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  2. ↑ "Eugene Amo-Dadzie". World Athletics. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Its never too late..Eugene Amo-Dazie". athletes.theathleteplace.com. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "ENGLAND SILVER AND P.B. FOR EUGENE AMO-DADZIE, PLUS OTHER T & F NEWS". wgel.org. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  5. ↑ "Sean Safo-Antwi sets new PB in 100m dash at NEB Track Open". Athleticshour.com. 15 August 2022. Archived from the original on 25 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "Be Fit Today Track Academy holds first awards ceremony". Enfield Independent. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "New UK Indoor 60m sprint champions crowned". The Independent. 20 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "GB & NI TEAM SELECTED FOR THE EUROPEAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "CAPTAIN SAWYERS FLIES TO FINAL AS SEVEN MORE BRITS PROGRESS IN ISTANBUL". British Athletics. 4 March 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  10. ↑ Adams, Tim (16 June 2023). "Eugene Amo-Dadzie: "I call myself the fastest accountant in the world"". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  11. ↑ "UK Athletics Championships: Zharnel Hughes and Dina Asher-Smith win 100m titles in Manchester". BBC Sport. 8 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  12. ↑ "GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND SQUAD SELECTED FOR THE 2023 WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPS". Britishathletics.org.uk. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  13. ↑ "Men's 100m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  14. 1 2 Ingle, Sean (16 August 2023). "Eugene Amo-Dadzie: the remarkable journey of 'world's fastest accountant'". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  15. ↑ Ingle, Sean (24 January 2024). "'I've got no limits': world's fastest accountant sets sights on Olympics". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  16. ↑ "Ujah returns to British squad for world relays". BBC Sport. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  17. ↑ "Covid-19: Sprinter urges BAME groups to 'have conversation' about the jab". BBC.co.uk. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  18. ↑ Kershaw, Tom. "Eugene Amo-Dadzie: The dope testers didn't want to know me when I was running 10.8sec". The Times. Retrieved 26 June 2023.


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