ADAM GEMILI

4th at the 2019 World Championships, 3-time European gold medallist, the first British man to run sub-10s 100m and sub-20s 200m and an integral part of GB’s first-ever sprint relay World Championship gold medal in front of a home crowd at London 2017; Adam has seen it all in athletics and still has plenty more to give. 

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Still in full-time education whilst he competed against the world’s greatest sprinters in London 2012, since opting not to pursue a career in football where he was signed by Chelsea FC, the first few years of his athletics career got off to a flying start. He became the only teenager to race in a World Championship sprint final in 2013 (coming 5th in 200m), became the fastest man in Europe in 2014 winning 2 gold medals at the European Championships, at 22 captained Team GB to their most successful Olympic Games in Rio 2016 and attained a degree in Sports & Exercise Science with Human Biology to go with 15 ‘A’ grades in GCSE (including an A in Japanese).

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Post-2016, Adam has gone on to win an international medal every year at every major Championship with a World Championship gold and silver medal as well as a European Championship gold medal. He reinforced his stature as the fastest man in Europe, finishing 4th at the 2019 World Championships, the highest of any European athlete in the 200m.

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With parents hailing from Iran and Morocco, Adam has a large multi-cultural following and with his articulate, personable and humble nature, which was evident to all upon agonisingly missing out on an Olympic 200m medal by 0.003s; the world is at his jet-heeled feet.