Jake Heyward
 Heyward at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships – Men's 1500 metres | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 26 April 1999 Lisvane, 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
[edit]Heyward was a European champion at under-18 and under-20 level while he was a member of the Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] In 2022, Heyward finished as runner-up in the Fifth Avenue Mile behind three-time winner Jake Wightman.[4] 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.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "'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
[edit]- 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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- Living people
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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
- 21st-century British sportsmen
- British athletics biography stubs
- Welsh sportspeople stubs