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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 September 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60 m: 7.26 s (Sheffield, 2024) 100 m: 11.27 s (Mannheim, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mabel Akande (born 5 September 2006) is a British sprinter. She came third at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in the 60 metres. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships over 100 metres. [1]
She is a member of Lincoln Wellington Athletic Club. [2] [3] In 2023, she was selected for the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games held in Trinidad and Tobago where she won a silver medal as part of the English 4 × 100 m relay team. [4] [5]
In February 2024, she became national under-20 champion and set a new personal best for the 60 metres, with a time of 7.26 seconds. [6] [7] That month, and still aged 17 years-old, she came third at the senior British Indoor Athletics Championships in the 60 metres, running 7.32 in the final in Birmingham. [8]
In May 2024, she won the 100 metres at the Loughborough International in a personal best time of 11.52 seconds. [9] She ran 11.53 seconds in the semi-finals of the 100 m at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester on 29 June 2024. She was selected for the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru. [10]
She finished runner-up to Amy Hunt over 60 metres at the Keely Klassic on 15 February 2025, in a time of 7.28 seconds. [11] In July 2025, she won the title over 100 metres at the England U20 Championships in Birmingham with a wind-assisted time of 11.30 seconds (+3.3) after a wind-legal 11.36 in the semifinal. [12] [13] She was named in the British team for the 100 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, winning her 100 metres semi final in 11.48 (-0.2m/s) before winning the silver medal in the final behind Kelly Doualla of Italy, with 11.41 (-0.1). [14] [15] She also anchored the British women's 4x100m relay team to the silver medal. [16]
