 2025 UK Athletics Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 May 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow AC [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Javelin: 78.48 m (Birmingham, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Allison (born 17 May 2004) is a British athlete specialising in the Javelin throw. He won the 2025 UK Athletics Championships and was a European under-20 bronze medalist in 2023. [2]
Allison read physics at St Anne's College, Oxford. [3] [4]
He competed as a high jumper and was also a keen rugby union player, but taught himself to throw the javelin during the covid-19 pandemic, using a 700g javelin and following YouTube tutorials and throwing on his local village football pitch during lockdown. A member of Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow athletics club, he had a fifth place finish in the English Schools Championships and later became coached by Tom Dobbing after the pair met in 2021. [4] [5] [6]
He qualified for the final of the javelin throw at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [7] He threw a four-metre personal best of 76.97m to win the British under-20 championships in June 2023, which placed him fourth on the British under-20 all-time list. [8] [9] He won bronze in the javelin at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem. [10] He was the first British medalist in the javelin at the Championships since Goldie Sayers in 2001. [11]
In November 2024, he was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [12] He threw a personal best of 78.48 metres to win his first senior British javelin title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships on 2 August 2025. His throw was the best mark at the UK Championships for 13 years, and also the furthest by any British man since 2022. [13] [4]
