Personal information | |
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Nationality | British |
Born | 6 February 2003 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Middle distance running |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:45.37 (Watford, 2024) 1500m: 3:43.62 (Birmingham, 2022) |
Justin Davies (born 6 February 2003) is a Welsh middle-distances runner. He won the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships over 800 metres. [1]
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. [2]
He was a bronze medalist over 800 metres at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships. [3] 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. [4] [5] He was selected for selected to join the Welsh Athletics performance pathway in 2024. [6]
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. [7] He won the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025. [8] [9] He was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn. [10] [11]
He attended King Edward's School, Bath. [12] He studied biomedical sciences at the University of Bath. [13] [14]
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