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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 November 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m 6.66 (London, 2025) 100m 10.26 (Mannheim, 2023) 200m 21.01 (Cork, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Teddy Wilson (born 29 November 2006) is a British sprinter. [1]
From North London, he attended Bishop Stopford's School in Enfield. [2] He ha said he was inspired to take up sprinting after watching the London 2012 Olympic Games. [3]
In August 2021, Wilson broke the British U15 100m record, running 10.78 seconds at the England Athletics U15 & U17 Championships, in Manchester. [4] He competed in the 100 metres at the European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem in 2022. [5]
He equalled the European Under-18 100m record with a personal best of 10.26 seconds at the Mannheim International in June 2023. That run also broke the Mark Lewis-Francis long-standing UK under-17 record. [6] [7] In August 2023, he won gold in the 100m at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in a time of 10.37 seconds in Port of Spain, having been named as team captain for the English team. [8] [9] [10]
He finished fifth in the final of the 100 metres at the senior British Athletics Championships in June 2024. [11] He competed at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024. [12] He qualified for the final of the 100 metres, where he placed seventh. [13] [14] [15] Later in the Championships, he won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay, running the British team's anchor leg. [16] [17]
In October 2024, he was nominated by Athletics Weekly for best British male junior. [18] In November 2024, he was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [19]
