| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth name | William Charles Greathead Barnicoat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 March 2003 Guildford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5'9.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 5000m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 5000m: 13:19.66 (Paris, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Will Barnicoat (born 24 March 2003) is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. He was European U20 cross country champion in 2022, and became European U23 cross country champion in 2023 and 2024. [1]
Barnicoat runs for Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletics Club. [2] He attended Cranleigh School, [3] and the University of Birmingham, where he was a contemporary of athletes Axel Vang Christensen and David Stone. As a student, Barnicoat supplemented his income working as a pot washer at a branch of Gourmet Burger Kitchen. [4] [5] He won his first vest for Great Britain aged 16, running in the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon in December 2019.
In February 2022, he became the English National junior cross-country champion for the second time, having also been U17 champion before that. [6] [7] Later that year, he won the 2022 European Cross Country Championships U20 race in Turin. [8] [9]
He was a bronze medallist in the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 5000 metres in Espoo. [10] In December 2023, he won the 2023 European Cross Country Championships U23 race in Brussels. [11] He also claimed gold as part of the British squad which won the U23 team event. [12]
In March 2024, he was named in the senior British team for the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Serbia, [13] where he finished 27th (the highest British men's finish since Mo Farah in 2010). [14] In May 2024, he won the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) 5000 metres. [15] In July he ran a personal best of 13:19.66 in Paris, the third fastest outdoor U23 British 5000m time. [16]
In November 2024, he was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [17] He won gold in the U23 individual and with the British U23 team at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey. [18] [19]
Andrew Butchart is a British runner who competed in the 5000 metres event at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the current Scottish record holder in the 3000, 5000 and 10,000 metre events. In June 2023, he broke the parkrun world record.
Nadia Battocletti is an Italian female middle- and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 5000 m and 10000 m races at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Battocletti won a silver medal in the 10,000 m and placed fourth in the 5000 m race.
Charles Hicks is a British middle- and long-distance runner. He is a two-time European Cross Country under-23 champion, the first British male or female to repeat as Euro U23 winner.
Samuel Reardon is a British athletics athlete who competes over 400m and 800m. In 2023, he became the British indoor champion over 400 metres. He won bronze medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the mixed 4 x 400 metres and men's 4 x 400 metres relay.
Renee Regis is a British track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter.
Innes FitzGerald is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. She is the 2023 and 2024 European U20 Cross Country champion.
Poppy Tank is a British steeplechaser and long distance runner. She has represented Great Britain at senior level and in 2023, she became the British national champion in the 3000m steeplechase.
Megan Keith is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. She was the 2023 European U23 champion over 5,000 metres and won a bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
María Forero is a Spanish track and field athlete and cross country runner.
Nick Griggs is an Irish middle and long-distance runner from County Tyrone.
Eloise Walker is a British track and field athlete who competes as a middle distance, long distance and cross county runner.
Zak Mahamed is a British long distance and cross country runner.
Axel Vang Christensen is a Danish track and field athlete and cross-country runner. He is the 2021 and 2023 European Cross Country U20 champion.
Izzy Fry is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner.
Rory Leonard is a British track and field athlete who competes as a long distance runner. In 2023, he won gold at the European U23 Athletics Championships over 10,000 metres.
Success Eduan is a British sprinter. She won the 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships over 200 metres title.
Ilona Mononen is a Finnish runner. She has won national indoor championship titles over 3000 metres and 5000 metres. She is the Finnish national record holder in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
Kate Axford is a British cross country and long distance runner, and former international field hockey player.
Joshua Lay is a British middle distance and cross country runner.
David Stone is a British runner. He was a bronze medalist in the individual U23 race and gold medalist in the team U23 event at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships.
