Justin Davies (runner)

Justin Davies
Justin Davies in 2026
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)[1]
Born (2003-02-06) 6 February 2003
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Middle distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal bests800m: 1:44.35 (Belfast, 2025)
1500m: 3:43.62 (Birmingham, 2022)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
European U23 Championships
Silver medal – second place2025 Bergen800m

Justin Davies (born 6 February 2003) is a Welsh middle-distances runner. He won the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships over 800 metres and is the Welsh indoor record holder over that distance.[2]

Biography

He began to be coached by Martin Rush in Bath, from the age of ten years-old. He represented Great Britain as a junior at the Loughborough International but a series of injuries led him and Rush to limit the amount of training hours he would complete in a week.[3] He was part of the British team that won a silver medal at the 2022 World University Cross Country Championships in the mixed relay, alongside Alexandra Millard, Edward Potter and Sabrina Sinha.[4]

He was a bronze medalist over 800 metres at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships.[5] In Watford in August 2024, he lowered his 800 metres personal best to 1:45.37 at the British Milers Club Gold Standard meeting at Watford. It was the third personal best time he had run that season, and moved into the top-ten British all-time list.[6][7] He was selected to join the Welsh Athletics performance pathway in 2024.[8]

In January 2025, he lowered his 800 metres indoor personal best to 1:46.94 in Sabadell, Spain.[9] At the Keely Klassic in Birmingham on 15 February 2025, he ran 1:45.78 in the 800m indoors and broke the Welsh record which had been held by Joe Thomas since 2012. It also moved him to seventh on the all-time British list.[3][10] He won the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025 in a time of 1:47.26.[11][3][12]

He was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn.[13][14] At the Games, he qualified for the semi-finals where he placed sixth in his race in 1:47.17.[15][16]

In May 2025, he lowered his personal best to 1:44.35 in winning the Belfast Milers event in Northern Ireland.[17] He ran 1:44.87 to win ahead of Algeria's Slimane Moula in the 800 metres at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Zagreb on 24 May 2025.[18] He was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, where he ran 1:44.67 to qualify for the final, his time under the championship record set by Nils Schumann in 1999. He won a silver medal in the final behind Niels Laros of the Netherlands.[19][20][21]

On 2 August, he qualified for the final of the 800 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham.[22] In October 2025, he was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.[23]

Davies ran a season's best for the 800 metres of 1:45.99 at the 2026 London Athletics Meet on 18 July.[24] He was a semi-finalist competing for Wales in the 800 metres at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.[25][26]

Personal life

He attended King Edward's School, Bath.[27] He studies biomedical sciences at the University of Bath.[28][29]

References

  1. ↑ "Five Welsh Athletes Announced for the UK Athletics Futures Programme 2025-26". Welsh Athletics. 23 October 2025. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "Justin Davies". World Athletics. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Barden, Katy (31 March 2025). "A lap with Justin Davies". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "Team Bath Dual Career athlete Justin Davies helps GB win mixed relay silver and overall title at FISU World University Cross-Country Champs". Team Bath. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Men's 800 m - Final" (PDF). ukaic2024 Micro Plus Timing Services. 18 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  6. ↑ Fahey, Kevin (30 August 2024). "Somerset runner joins the 1:45 club with a record-breaking 800m run". Somerset Live. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Watford witnesses fast late-season times". Athletics Weekly. 24 August 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Jenny Nesbitt and Justin Davies have been selected to join the Welsh Athletics Performance Pathway". Welshathletics.org. 15 April 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  9. ↑ Britton, Robbie (3 March 2025). "A Surreal Fortnight – Justin Davies' Indoor Season". Fast Running. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  10. ↑ Henderson, Jason (15 February 2025). "British records fall at the Keely Klassic". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  11. ↑ Henderson, Jason (23 February 2025). "George Mills leads Euro qualifiers at UK Indoor Champs". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  12. ↑ "GOURLEY & MILLS LEAD WAY WITH RECORDS AT MICROPLUS UK ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMP". British Athletics. 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  13. ↑ "GB & NI TEAM SELECTED FOR THE EUROPEAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025". British Athletics. 26 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  14. ↑ Henderson, Jason (26 February 2025). "Molly Caudery leads British team for European Indoor Champs". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  15. ↑ Crumley, Euan (7 March 2025). "Agony for Amber Anning at European Indoors". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  16. ↑ Crumley, Euan (8 March 2025). "Jeremiah Azu flies to 60m success in Apeldoorn". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  17. ↑ Rhodes, James (11 May 2025). "Brilliant in Belfast – Irish Milers Meeting". Fast Running. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  18. ↑ "Ceh dominates discus as meeting records fall in Zagreb". World Athletics. 24 May 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  19. ↑ Henderson, Jason (3 July 2025). "BIG GB TEAMS FOR THE EURO U23 CHAMPS AND WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  20. ↑ Mills, Steven (18 July 2025). "Pernici blazes to 1:44.06 championship record in 800m heats at Bergen 2025". European Athletics. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  21. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (20 July 2025). "Brilliant Laros wins 800m to complete unique distance double". European Athletics. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  22. ↑ "UK Championship". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  23. ↑ "2025-26 OLYMPIC FUTURES PROGRAMME ATHLETES ANNOUNCED". British Athletics. 23 October 2025. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
  24. ↑ Henderson, Jason (18 July 2026). "Kerr Headlines Novuna London Athletics Meet as Mile World Record Shattered". Diamondleague.com. Retrieved 19 July 2026.
  25. ↑ "XXIII Commonwealth Games". World Athletics. 30 July 2026. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
  26. ↑ "Team Wales named for Glasgow Commonwealth Games". BBC Sport. 19 June 2026. Retrieved 19 June 2026.
  27. ↑ "It's a golden day for Avon runners at the South West Championships". Easy Runner. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  28. ↑ "Current and aspiring Olympians, history-making artistic swimmer and internationals join ranks of University of Bath Sporting Scholars". Team Bath. 4 December 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  29. ↑ "Eleven University of Bath students offered sporting scholarships". Bath Echo. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
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