Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

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Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
Aikines-Aryeetey at the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games in 2013
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1][2]
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
SportSprinting
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100m: 10.08
200m: 20.46
Medal record
Men's Athletics
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Berlin 4×100 m relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich
4 x 100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2018 Berlin
4 x 100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zürich 4 x 100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Zürich 100 m
World Relays
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Nassau 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Yokohama 4×100 m relay
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 4x100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 4x100 m relay

Harry Leslie Aikines-Aryeetey is an English

IAAF's Rising Star of the Year after becoming the first athlete to win gold medals at both 100 metres and 200 metres at the World Youth Championships.[3]

An Olympian for Great Britain at the Rio Olympics, Aikines-Aryeetey won his first senior individual medal, a bronze, in the 100 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships. At the same championships he earned his first senior title as part of the Great Britain team that won gold in the men's 4 x 100 metres relay. Thereafter, Aikines-Aryeetey won relay gold twice more at European level, and twice at the Commonwealth Games representing England.

In 2024, Aikines-Aryeetey first appeared as "Nitro" in Gladiators.

Career

Aikines-Aryeetey was born in Carshalton, London to Ghanaian parents. He studied at Greenshaw High School in Sutton, London from 2000 to 2006.

His first major tournament medal came at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games where he won the silver medal in the 100 m.[4]

On 11 June 2006, aged 17, he competed in the 100 m at Gateshead in which Asafa Powell equalled the world record of 9.77 s. On 16 August 2006, he won the gold in the 100 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, held in Beijing, China, setting a season's best 10.37 s.

He was advised not to run in 2007 due to minor fractures in the spine that could affect later development. After an eleven-month recuperation period,[5] he returned to action in 2008 with a 60 metres personal best of 6.59 s in France to signal a return to form.

Aikines-Aryeetey was selected for

4 × 100 m relay team with Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar and Marlon Devonish, he took bronze
in Berlin with a season's best of 38.02 seconds. In 2009 Harry became a Lucozade Sport Ambassador he is also an ambassador for Mirafit.

During the 2010

IAAF World Championships in Daegu
with a time of 10.14.

Aikines-Aryeetey won his first senior individual medal in the final of the 2014 European Championships in Zurich where he finished third in a time of 10.22 seconds. In 2018 he was part of the relay team that took gold at both the commonwealth games and also the European championships, his second European gold (after Zurich 2014).

In 2020 he became British champion when winning the 100 metres event at the

Tokyo Olympics, though 2022 has seen his track return, being selected as a member of the 4x100m squad for the 2022 World Championships, the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2022 European Championships. Harry regularly trains at Loughborough University.[7]

Personal bests

Event Best Location Date
60 metres 6.55 s Birmingham, United Kingdom 13 February 2010
100 metres 10.08 s Birmingham, United Kingdom 13 July 2013
200 metres 20.46 s La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland 3 July 2011

Gladiators

In May 2023, Aikines-Aryeetey was named as 'Nitro', one of the Gladiators in a reboot of the television series of the same name to be broadcast on BBC One.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Harry Aikines-Aryeetey". teamengland.org. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. ^ "The Gold Coast XXI Commonwealth Games, Participants, Harry AIKINES-ARYEETEY". gc2018.thecgf.com. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  3. IAAF
    (17 July 2005). Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  4. ^ A rising star. BBC Sport (30 January 2006). Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  5. ^ Britain's sprinting star. The Guardian (10 January 2009). Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  6. ^ "Results list". British Athletics.
  7. ^ Garrett, Lee (3 June 2023). "Meet BBC Gladiator Nitro of Loughborough University". Leicestershire Live. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  8. BBC Media Centre
    . 19 May 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2023.

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