Draft:Callum Dodds
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 6 October 2000 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Middle distance running |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:44.50 (Brescia, 2025) |
Callum Dodds (born 6 October 2000) is a British middle-distance runner.[1]
Career
[edit]In May 2024, he won the Belfast Milers Meet, finishing with a personal best time of 1:44.79.[2] Later that month, he was selected to run the 800 metres for Great Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[3]
He finished a fraction outside the British national record time for the 600 metres of Thomas Staines’ 75.31 from 2023, running 75.81 seconds at the Keely Klassic in Birmingham, on 15 February 2025.[4] He qualified for the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham with a time of 1:47.28 for an indoor personal best.[5] He took more than a second from that indoor best when finishing third in the 800 metres in 1:45.86 at the Madrid World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting on 28 February.[6]
He opened his outdoor season in June 2025 with a run of 1:45.33 to win the 800 metres at the BMC Grand Prix in Birmingham.[7] He lowered his 800m personal best to 1:44.70 at the Golden Spike Ostrava on 24 June and then to 1:44.50 in Brescia on 15 July 2025.[8][9] On 2 August, he qualified for the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Callum Dodds". British Athletics. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "England's Gill, 17, breaks 45-year-old 800m record". BBC Sport. 11 May 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON NAMED IN STRONG GB & NI TEAM FOR EUROPEANS ROME 2024". British Athletics. 28 May 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ Henderson, Jason (15 February 2025). "British records fall at the Keely Klassic". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
- ^ "WILLIAMS AND AZU CLAIM 60M TITLES IN BIRMINGHAM". British Athletics. 22 Feb 2025. Retrieved 22 Feb 2025.
- ^ "Caudery flies high into the Madrid sky with European-leading 4.85m". European Athletics. 28 Feb 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ^ Adams, Tim (10 June 2025). "JESS LARK IMPRESSES OVER 800M AT BMC GRAND PRIX IN BIRMINGHAM". Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ^ "64th Golden Spike Ostrava". World Athletics. 24 June 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
- ^ "Grand Prix Brescia". World Athletics. 15 July 2025. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ "UK Championship". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.