Biography
Higgins runs for Tonbridge athletics club. He was the winner of the British 800 metres indoor title in February 2024 with a personal best time of 1:47.91, causing an upset against pre-race favourite Guy Learmonth at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships. [2] [3] However, Higgins' world ranking was not sufficiently high enough to compete at the subsequent World Indoor Championships in Glasgow. [4] [5]
Higgins ran an indoor 800 metres personal best of 1:46.69 at the Keeley Klassic in Birmingham in February 2025. [6] Later that month, Higgins finished second behind Justin Davies whilst competing over 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025, in 1:48.02. [7] [8] He was subsequently selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in March 2025. [9] [10] At the championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, he ran 1:48.12 in his heat without qualifying for the 800 metres semi-finals. [11]
Higgins won the men's mile at the Cardiff Cross Challenge on 8 November 2025, finishing ahead of Callum Elson to gain automatic selection for the British team for the mixed relay at the 2025 European Cross Country Championships in December 2025 in Portugal. [12] [13] [14] At the championships, he won the bronze medal alongside Elson, Ava Lloyd and Holly Dixon. [15] Later that month, Higgins ran 7:57.31 over 3000m to win the South of England indoor title and took part in his first official 5km race on the roads in Battersea on 31 December, placing second in 13:38 behind Joe Whigfield. [16]
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