Justin Davies in 2026 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British (Welsh) [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 February 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:44.35 (Belfast, 2025) 1500m: 3:43.62 (Birmingham, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Justin Davies (born 6 February 2003) is a Welsh middle-distances runner. He won the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships over 800 metres and is the Welsh indoor record holder over that distance. [2]
He began to be coached by Martin Rush in Bath, from the age of ten years-old. He represented Great Britain as a junior at the Loughborough International but a series of injuries led him and Rush to limit the amount of training hours he would complete in a week. [3] He was part of the British team that won a silver medal at the 2022 World University Cross Country Championships in the mixed relay, alongside Alexandra Millard, Edward Potter and Sabrina Sinha. [4]
He was a bronze medalist over 800 metres at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships. [5] In Watford in August 2024, he lowered his 800 metres personal best to 1:45.37 at the British Milers Club Gold Standard meeting at Watford. It was the third personal best time he had run that season, and moved into the top-ten British all-time list. [6] [7] He was selected to join the Welsh Athletics performance pathway in 2024. [8]
In January 2025, he lowered his 800 metres indoor personal best to 1:46.94 in Sabadell, Spain. [9] At the Keely Klassic in Birmingham on 15 February 2025, he ran 1:45.78 in the 800m indoors and broke the Welsh record which had been held by Joe Thomas since 2012. It also moved him to seventh on the all-time British list. [3] [10] He won the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025 in a time of 1:47.26. [11] [3] [12]
He was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn. [13] [14] At the Games, he qualified for the semi-finals where he placed sixth in his race in 1:47.17. [15] [16]
In May 2025, he lowered his personal best to 1:44.35 in winning the Belfast Milers event in Northern Ireland. [17] He ran 1:44.87 to win ahead of Algeria's Slimane Moula in the 800 metres at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Zagreb on 24 May 2025. [18] He was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, where he ran 1:44.67 to qualify for the final, his time under the championship record set by Nils Schumann in 1999. He won a silver medal in the final behind Niels Laros of the Netherlands. [19] [20] [21]
On 2 August, he qualified for the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham. [22] In October 2025, he was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26. [23]
Davies was selected as part of the Welsh team for the 2026 Commonwealth Games. [24]
He attended King Edward's School, Bath. [25] He studies biomedical sciences at the University of Bath. [26] [27]
