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Born | Sheffield, England [1] | 18 July 2002||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
College team | Houston Cougars | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Carl Lewis | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100m: 9.95 (Eugene, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Louie Hinchliffe (born 18 July 2002) is a British sprinter. [2] On 7 June 2024, he won the 2024 NCAA Championships 100 metres title with a time of 9.95 seconds for the University of Houston Cougars. That month, he also won the 100m title at the British Athletics Championships. Selected for his first Olympic Games later that month, Hinchliffe was part of the Great Britain team that won bronze in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay in Paris 2024.
Hinchliffe is from the Sheffield suburb of Crosspool and is a member of Sheffield and Dearne Athletic Club. [3] He attended Notre Dame High School and studied business and IT at Lancaster University. [4]
He competed for Great Britain in the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships, where he reached the semi-finals of the 200 metres. [5] [3] He then spent his freshman year competing for Washington State University. [6] He won the English national 100m title in 2022. [7] He lowered his personal best for the 100 metres to 10.23 in April 2023 in Walnut, California. [8] He was selected for the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo. [9]
After transferring to the University of Houston, he began being coached by Carl Lewis. In May 2024 he lowered his wind-legal personal best to 10.00 in Fayetteville, Arkansas and then ran a wind-assisted 100 metres in 9.84 seconds to qualify for the 2024 NCAA Championship finals. [10] Competing at the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon he won the 100 metres title with a run of 9.95 seconds. [11] He became the first European to win the title and placed him as the sixth fastest Briton of-all-time. [12]
On 29 June 2024, he won the 100 metres title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester, his first national title, and the first sprinter to win the NCAA Division 1 and British titles in the same season. [13]
On 5 July 2024, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres as well as being included in the 4x100 metres relay squad. [14] Hinchliffe went out in the 100 metres semi-finals at the Games in Paris despite breaking ten seconds twice, but ended the event as the highest ranked British athlete. [15] Days later, he ran the final as Great Britain won a bronze medal in the 4x100 metres relay, his first senior medal. [16]
His father Stuart is from Rotherham and his mother Leilana is from the Philippines. [17] He was a successful junior golfer, playing from a single-figure handicap. He has a sister who has also competed in athletics, as a hurdler. [18] [19]
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