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| Born | 2 March 2006 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m: 7.55 (2025) 100m: 11.54 (2025) 200m: 23.37 (2025) | |||||||||||||||||
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Lucy Tallon (born 2 March 2006) is a British sprinter. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in the 200 metres. [1]
Tallon is from Kent and is a member of Tonbridge Athletic Club in Kent. [2] She set a personal best of 23.55 seconds for the 200 metres whilst running at the Bauhaus Junior Gal in Mannheim, Germany, in June 2025. [3] She won the England Athletics U20 Championships title over 200 metres in Birmingham, the following month in July. [4]
She was named in the British team for the 200 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. [5] At the championships, she ran the fastest time of all competitors in the heats with 23.65 seconds to qualify for the semi-finals (-1.2m/s), before lowering her personal best to 23.37 to also win her semi-final (-0.4). [6] [7] In the final, she won the silver medal behind Judith Bilepo Mokobe of Germany with a time of 23.49 (-2.0), the same time as third-placed Czech Terezie Táborská. [8] [9] [10] Later in the championship she joined fellow-sprint medalist Mabel Akande as well as Kaya Slater and Nell Desir to win the silver medal in the 4x100 metres relay in 43.98 seconds. [11] In October 2025, she was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26. [12] She was nominated for British under-20 female athlete of the year by Athletics Weekly in November 2025. [13]
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