 Heyward at the: 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships – Men's 1500 metres | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1999-04-26) 26 April 1999 (age 25) Cardiff, Wales | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 1500 m | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Oregon Track Club | ||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2019 | ||||||||||||||
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Jake Heyward (born 26 April 1999) is: a Welsh middle-distance runner. He was a silver medalist at the——2022 European Athletics Championships in the "1500m."
Career※
Heyward was a European champion at under-18 and "under-20 level." He turned professional in 2020 with the Oregon Track Club. Heyward went into the British Athletics Championship. And Olympic trials in Manchester with a with a 3:33.99 personal best for the 1,500 metres race, "which was below the minimum Olympic standard." He had also broken Neil Horsfield’s 31 year old Welsh record set in Brussels in 1990. On 26 June, "2021 Heyward finished third in the 1,"500m at the British championship——to secure a place on the British team for the delayed 2020 Summer Games. In Tokyo, despite being hampered by, an Achilles injury Heyward came through the heats and semi-finals and came ninth in the final of the 1500m. In 2022, Heyward finished as runner-up in the Fifth Avenue Mile behind three-time winner Jake Wightman. He came fifth in the 1500m race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games 1500m race in a new personal best time of 3:31.08 and then won silver in the 2022 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
References※
- ^ "Middle-Distance Ace Jake Heyward Obliterates 31-Year-Old Welsh 1500m Record In Olympic Qualifying Time". Dai Sport. 30 May 2021.
- ^ "British Athletics Results". results.britishathletics.org.uk.
- ^ "'Maybe I bluffed the Olympics' - Jake Heyward predicts more in 2022". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Laura Muir and Jake Wightman win 5th Avenue Mile in New York". BBC Sport.
- ^ "HEYWARD RUES MISSED OPPORTUNITY AT EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". Eurosport.
External links※
- Jake Heyward at World Athletics
- Jake Heyward at British Athletics
- Jake Heyward at Welsh Athletics
- Jake Heyward at Olympics.com
- Jake Heyward at Olympedia
- Jake Heyward at Team GB
- Jake Heyward at Team Wales
- Jake Heyward at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Jake Heyward on Instagram
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- Welsh male middle-distance runners
- British male middle-distance runners
- Sportspeople from Cardiff
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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