Eugene Amo-Dadzie

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Eugene Amo-Dadzie
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born (1992-06-22) 22 June 1992 (age 33)
Rainham, London, England [1]
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event sprint
Club Woodford Green with Essex Ladies
Achievements and titles
Personal bests

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]

He was named in the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou. [17] He ran in the men’s 4 x 100 metres relay, alongside Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Jona Efoloko and Romell Glave as the British quartet won their heat to qualify for the final and secure a place for Britain at the 2025 World Championships. [18] He won the 100 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025. [19] At the championships he also anchored the British men's 4 x 100 metres team to a third place finish. [20] On 2 August, he placed fourth in the final of the 100 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham in 10.04 seconds. [21] He was selected as part of the British relay team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [22]

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. [23] 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. [24] 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

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  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.
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  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. "GB & NI TEAM SELECTED FOR THE WORLD ATHLETICS RELAYS 2025". British Athletics. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  18. "GB & NI SECURE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SPOTS ON CRUCIAL FIRST DAY AT WORLD ATHLETICS RELAYS". British Athletics. 10 May 2025. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  19. Broadbent, Chris (27 June 2025). "Boglarka Takacs sets Hungarian record to win women's 100m". European Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  20. Broadbent, Chris (28 June 2025). "Double Dutch! The Netherlands win men's and women's 4x100m races with national records". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  21. "UK Championship". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  22. Henderson, Jason (26 August 2025). "BRITISH TEAM NAMED FOR WORLD CHAMPS IN TOKYO". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  23. "Covid-19: Sprinter urges BAME groups to 'have conversation' about the jab". BBC.co.uk. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  24. 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.