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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 October 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdling | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 400m hurdles: 48.88 (2025) Indoors 400m: 47.30 (2023) | ||||||||||||||
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Jake Minshull (born 11 October 2004) is a British hurdler. [1]
He is a member of Godiva Harriers in Coventry. [2] In December 2021, won a silver medal competing for England at the SIAB Indoor Pentathlon Championships in Glasgow, with 3866 points. [3] In February 2022, he lowered his personal best in the 800 metres indoors to 1:54.52 before winning gold in the under-20 category at the England Athletics Age Group Indoor Championships in Sheffield with an indoor personal best time of 1:52.89. [4]
In July 2022, he won at the English Schools Championships in the Senior Boys 400 metres hurdles in 51.73 seconds, to set a new personal best and club record time. [5]
He was a gold medalist in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel alongside David Race, Sam Lunt and Charlie Carvell. [6] [7]
In May 2025, he won the 400 metres hurdles at the Loughborough International competing for England, running a time of 49.86 seconds. [8] [9] Later that month, he lowered his personal best to 48.88 seconds for the 400m hurdles whilst competing in Brussels. [10] He was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, wining his heat in 50.03 seconds, before placing fifth in the final in 49.18 seconds. [11] [12] [13]
On 2 August, he qualified for the final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham, beating Seamus Derbyshire on the line of his semi-final. [14] The following day in the final he was well-placed on the back straight but fell at the final hurdle. [15]
