Personal information | |
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Nationality | British |
Born | 30 January 1996 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | 3000m |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:41.23 (Watford, 2022) Mile: 3:58.76 (London 2021) 3000m: 7:38.35 (Boston 2024) 5000m: 13:23.00 (Los Angeles, 2023) 10000m: 28:20.31 (London, 2022) Half marathon: 1:01:08 (London, 2023) |
Jack Rowe (born 30 January 1996) is a British long-distance runner. [1]
Born in Norwich, Rowe attended St Mary's University, Twickenham and the University of San Francisco. [2]
In 2020 he won silver in the 5000m at the British Championships. [3] In December 2021 he finished eighteenth at the European Cross Country Championship that took place in Fingal, Dublin. [4]
He was selected for the Great Britain squad to compete in the 3000m, for the 2021 and 2023 European Indoor Athletics Championships, held at the Arena Toruń in Poland, and the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul respectively. [5] In 2021 and 2023 Rowe qualified for the final in the 3000m race. [6] [7]
In September 2023, he won The Big Half in London. [8] His time met the qualifying mark for the half-marathon at the inaugural World Road Running Championships, held in October 2023 in Riga. [9] In September 2023, he also won the Vitality London 10,000m in a time of 28:13. [10]
In January 2024, he ran a new 3000m indoors personal best of 7:38.35 in Boston, Massachusetts. [11] In May 2024, he was selected to run the 5000 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. [12] Competing at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester he placed third overall on 30 June 2024. [13] He ran an outdoor personal best of 7:38.70 over 3000m at the 2024 London Athletics Meet. [14]
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