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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 January 2005 Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb; 9 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Grieve (born 30 January 2005) is a British sprinter. [1]
From Currie in Scotland, she started athletics at the age of eight years-old and competing at nine. She was a member of Edinburgh Athletics and won the Scottish U20 title as a 15 year-old. [2] She also raced for Pitreavie ACC and Woodford Green Ladies. She attended the University of New Mexico in the United States to study biology. [3] [4]
In August 2021, she was part of a Scottish 4x400 metres relay team that set a new Scottish U20 record racing in Manchester. [5]
She won a gold medal in the medley relay at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem in July 2022. [6] That year, she was the number one Scottish athlete in her age-group over 200 metres and 400 metres. [7]
She competed at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru. Taking part in the 4 x 400 metres relay, she ran the second fastest leg of all competitors (52.86 seconds) as Britain qualified for the final. [8] In the final, she ran as the British team won the bronze medal. [9] [10]
Roger Anthony BlackMBE is an English former athlete who competed internationally for Great Britain and England. During his athletics career, he won individual silver medals in the 400 metres sprint at both the Olympic Games and World Championships, two individual gold medals at the European Championships, and 4 × 400 metres relay gold medals at both the World and European Championships.
Pitreavie Amateur Athletic Club, based in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, was formed in 1956. The club makes use of modern and expansive facilities including its own clubhouse and gym as well as access to an outdoor running track and complete indoor facilities at the Pitreavie Indoor Centre run by Fife Sports and Leisure Trust.
Linsey Macdonald is a former Scottish sprinter from Dunfermline, Fife, who specialised in the 400 metres. She was nicknamed "The Fife Flyer" during her career. Inspired by competitors like Mary Peters she started in athletics at the age of 10.
Eilidh Doyle is a retired British track and field athlete. Originally running as Eilidh Child, she specialised in the 400 metres hurdles outdoors, and the 400 metres flat indoors, as well as the 4 x 400 metres relay on both surfaces. She represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Individually, she is the 2014 European Champion and a three-time Commonwealth silver medalist in the 400 metres hurdles.
Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith is a British sprinter internationally active since 2011. In 2019 she was the first British woman to win a World title in a sprint event.
Daryll Saskia Neita is a British sprinter. She won a silver medal in the 200 metres at the 2024 European Championships along with bronze in the 100 metres at the 2022 European Championships, 2022 Commonwealth Games and in the 60 metres at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She has also won several medals as part of Great Britain 4 × 100 m relay teams, including an Olympic silver medal in 2024 and bronze medals in 2016 and 2021, World Championships silver medals in 2017 and 2019 and European gold in 2018.
Imani-Lara Lansiquot is an English sprinter who competes mainly in the 100 metres. She finished fourth in the 100 metres finals at both the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships and the 2017 European U23 Championships. In the 4 × 100 metres relay, she won a gold medal at the 2018 European Championships, silver at the 2019 World Championships, and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her 100 metres best of 10.99 secs, ranks her third on the UK all-time list.
Amy Hunt is a British sprinter who won double gold at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in both the 200 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay. She holds the world record for the Women's Under-18 200 metres, set in June 2019 with a time of 22.42s.
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Jona Efoloko is a British sprinter. A former European youth (U18) and World Junior (U20) champion in 200 metres, In 2022, he was part of the Great Britain relay team that won European and Commonwealth gold, and World Championship bronze, in the men's 4 x 100 metres relay.
Alex Haydock-Wilson is a British athletics athlete. In 2023, he became British 400 metres champion. He achieved a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the mixed 4 x 400 m relay.
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