| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 19 March 2007 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Multi-event |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Heptathlon: 5426 (Arona, Spain) |
Medal record | |
Thea Brown (born 19 March 2007) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a multi-event athlete. [1]
A Sale Harriers athlete, Brown won the 2022 English Schools heptathlon and Schools International indoor pentathlon titles. [2]
In February 2023, at the English national junior championships, she recorded a personal best in the long jump with a jump of 5.94 metres to win the U17 title. She ran a new national U17 record time of 8.39 seconds to win the 60 m hurdles title. [2]
In July 2023, she was selected team captain for the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games held in Trinidad and Tobago. [3] [4] She won a silver medal as part of the English 4 × 100 m relay team. [5] She also won silver at the games in the 100 m hurdles. In September 2023, she moved to fourth place on the British all-time list for the U17 heptathlon with a score of 5147, moving ahead of international athletes Jade O'Dowda and Katarina Johnson-Thompson on the list. [6]
On 17 February 2024, she qualified for the final of the 60 m hurdles at the senior UK national indoors championships in Birmingham, with a personal best time of 8.26 seconds. In the final she finished fifth in a time of 8.35 seconds. [7]
In May 2024 she finished second to Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the high jump at the Loughborough International, clearing a height of 1.83 metres. [8] She ran a time of 13.33 seconds to qualify for the final of the 100 m hurdles at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester on 29 June 2024. She placed fourth in the final. [9]
In July 2024, she won silver in the heptathlon with a personal best of 5807 points at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Slovakia. [10] She also won a bronze medal as part of the medley relay at the championships. [11] She competed at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, reaching the semi-final of the 100 metres hurdles. [12] [13] In October 2024, she was nominated by Athletics Weekly for best British female junior. [14]
She jumped a personal best 6.36 metres during the heptathlon at the International Meeting of Arona, part of the World Athletics Combined Events Tour, in June 2025. [15]
She was named in the British team for the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, after a season hampered by hamstring and ankle issues. After qualifying for the final with one jump, a personal best 6.42 metres, Brown increased her personal best again in the final and won the silver medal with 6.44 metres. [16] [17] [18] In October 2025, she was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26. [19] She was again nominated for British under-20 female athlete of the year by Athletics Weekly in November 2025. [20]
