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| Born | 16 September 2007 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High jump: 2.20m (Birmingham, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Otis Poole is a British high jumper. He won the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships at the age of 17 years-old, and was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships. [1]
He is from Chippenham, in Wiltshire, where he attends Sheldon School. [2] [3] Poole is a member of Yate & District Athletic Club in Gloucestershire, where he is coached in the high jump by Joy Bray. [2]
He won the England Athletics U17 indoor high jump title in February 2024, with a personal best height of 2.03 metres. [4] He won the U17 title outdoors in July 2024, with a personal best clearance of 2.07 metres. [5] He won the England U20 indoor high jump title in February 2025 with a personal best of 2.09 metres. [6]
He won the British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in February 2025 at the age of 17, with a personal best height of 2.20 metres. This came after he was a late entry into the competition, a few days before. [7] [8] [9] For his effort, he was additionally given the 'performance of the day' award by the organisers. [10] The clearance also moved him into the number two spot in the world U20 rankings. [2] In July 2025, he cleared 2.12 metres; his best jump outdoors, to win the U20 high jump at the England Athletics Championships in Birmingham. [11]
He was named in the British team for the high jump at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. [12] Competing at the event in August 2025, he won the silver medal in the high jump with an outdoor personal best clearance of 2.19 metres, finishing only behind Elijah Pasquier of France. [13] [14] [15]
