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| Born | 4 January 2001 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:42.09 (2024) 3000m: 7:59.50 (2024) 5000m: 13:44.62 (2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Tomer Tarragano (born 4 January 2001) is a British long distance and cross country runner. [1]
A member of Brighton and Hove Athletics Club, he represented Great Britain at the under-23 level at the Euro Cross Country Championships in both 2022 and 2023. [2] In 2023, he won the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) title over 10,000 metres. [3]
He won the British Team European Cross Country Trials in Liverpool on November 23, 2024. [4] He was subsequently selected for the British team for the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey, where he was a bronze medalist in the team race. [5] [6] On 31 December 2024, he pipped Tom Keen in a photo finish to win the Battersea New Year's Eve 5k in London. [7]
In January 2025, he had a top-ten finish at the Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza in Elgoibar. [8] At the beginning of February 2025, he won the BUCS cross country title in Cardiff. [9] He won the men’s race at the Comeback 5000 in Battersea on 13 May 2025. [10]
His father’s family are Spanish, from the town of Tarragona. [11] He studied at the University of Birmingham. [12]
