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Nationality | Czech | ||||||||||||||
Born | České Budějovice | 2 August 2007||||||||||||||
Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Middle distance | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:48.71 (2024) 1500m: 3:40.98 (2024) NU18R 3000m: 8:09.11 (2024) NU18R | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Filip Toul (born 2 August 2007) is a Czech middle distance runner. He is the Czech national under-18 record holder over 1500 metres and 3000 metres, and under-20 record holder over 1500 metres. He won the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships. [1]
He is a member of SK Čtyři Dvory, in České Budějovice, where his coaches include Pavel Suchý and Pavel Brlica. [2]
In February 2024, he finished in second place at the Czech Indoor Athletics Championships in Ostrava, running a time of 3:53.27. [3] In May 2024, in Domažlice he ran a new Czech junior national record for the 1500 metres, improving Jakub Davidík's five-year-old record by four tenths of seconds, by running a time of 3:45.92. [4]
In June 2024, he ran 3:40.98 for the 1500 metres at the age of 16 years-old, which placed him as the third fastest European under-18 in history behind Dutch runner Niels Laros and Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway. [5] [6] That month, he won the Czech under-18 title over 800 metres in Ostrava. [7] He won gold in the 1500 metres at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. [8]
He finished third in the Czech junior cross country championships in November 2024. [9] He was subsequently selected for the European Cross Country Championships in December 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. [10]
Toul set a new Czech junior record in the one-mile run in Ostrava in February 2025 at the Czech Gala, running 4:00.13, a time which is waiting ratification from World Athletics as a European under-20 record. [11] [12]