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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 June 1999 Ascot, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University team | LSU Tigers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Hammer: 77.37m (Kladno, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jake Norris (born 30 June 1999) is a British athlete, specialising in the hammer throw. He was the 2018 World U-20 (junior) champion and 2023 British Athletics Champion. [1]
His home athletics club is Windsor, Slough Eton & Hounslow. He attended Louisiana State University in the United States. [2] In July 2016, he was a silver medalist at the 2016 European Athletics U18 Championships in Tbilisi. [3]
In June 2018, Norris competed at the England Athletics U23 and U20 Championships in Bedford and won with a British under-20 hammer record of 80.45m. [4] He broke the British U20 record again with 80.65m throw in the 6 kg hammer, and won the gold medal at the 2018 IAAF World Junior Championship in Tampere. [5]
Although he threw 73.24 metres with the senior weight implement as a 17-year-old, as he moved into his early 20s he suffered from a series of minor injuries that interrupted his training and stunted his progress. He returned to Britain in 2022 and was trained by Paul Dickenson. After a accession of throws of 70 metres in 2023, he became the British hammer throw champion after winning the title at the 2023 British Athletics Championships in Manchester, in July, with a distance of 74.75 metres. He then set a new personal best of 76.30 metres in October 2023. [6] [7]
In May 2024, he threw a personal best 77.37 metres in Kladno. [8] He was also selected to represent Britain in the hammer at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, placing tenth overall with a throw of 73.66 metres [9] [10] He qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games by ranking but was one of a number of athletes controversially not selected by British Athletics. [11]
In March 2025, he competed for Great Britain at the European Throwing Cup, in Nicosia, Cyprus, and he places seventh overall with a throw of 75.61 metres. [12] He was departed for the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025. [13] In August he won his third consecutive British outdoor title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.
World U20 Champions in men's hammer throw | |
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