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| Nationality | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 May 2000 Barnsley | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 200 metres | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Joe Ferguson (born 3 May 2000) is a British sprinter from Yorkshire. [1] [2] In 2025 he became British champion over 200 metres indoors.
Ferguson started running in Yorkshire for Barnsley AC in 2013, before running for Leeds City. [3]
At the British Athletics Championships in September 2020, held in Manchester, Ferguson won bronze in the 200 metres. [4] At the 2022 World Championship trials Ferguson ran a personal best time of 20.23 to qualify for the 2022 World Athletics Championships. [5] At the games themselves, running in the 200 metres, Ferguson qualified from the heats to make the semi-finals. [6]
In November 2024, he was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [7] He ran an indoors personal best of 20.93 seconds to win the 200 metres title at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025. [8] He was named in the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou. [9] He ran in the mixed 4 x 100 metres relay, alongside Nia Wedderburn-Goodison, Kissiwaa Mensah and Jeriel Quainoo as the British quartet finished second in their heat to qualify for the final. [10] In the final, they won the bronze medal in the event. [11] [12] He was selected for the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025. [13]
