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David Omoregie

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David Omoregie
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born(1995-11-01)1 November 1995(age 28)
Durham, England
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight80 kg (176 lb)[1]
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event110 metres hurdles
ClubCardiff Amateur Athletic Club
Coached byBenke Blomkvist
Achievements and titles
Personalbest(s)110 m hurdles:13.24
60 m hurdles:7.68

David Omoregie(born 1 November 1995) is a Welshtrack and fieldhurdlerwho competes in the110 metres hurdles.He holds a personal best of 13.24 seconds for the event, fifth best among British hurdlers. He setworld juniorandEuropean junior recordsin the60 metres hurdlesindoor. He won a bronze medal at the2014 World Junior Championships in Athleticsand won the2015 European Athletics U23 Championships

Career

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Early life and career

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A member ofPembrokeshire Harriersand thenCardiff Amateur Athletic Club,Omoregie took part inathleticsfrom a young age and focused on thecombined track and field events.[2]Born inDurham, England,[3]both his parents emigrated from Nigeria at age twenty. In 2011, his father died of cancer shortly after his sister had died in a car crash. Omoregie focused on athletics and his schoolwork as a tribute to them and received five A stars in hisGCSEsthat year.[citation needed]He was the Welsh youth champion in thepentathlonin 2012 then won the English indoor junior championship in themen's heptathlonin 2013. That year, he began to focus more on his best event – sprint hurdling. At the2013 European Athletics Junior Championshipshe set a best of 13.45 seconds for the junior 110 m hurdles in qualifying before placing fifth in the final. He was Welsh junior champion in the hurdles and also runner-up at the English junior championship.[2]

Omoregie progressed further in 2014 season, starting with a third place at theBritish Indoor Athletics Championshipsin the60 metres hurdles(in a personal best of 7.82 seconds). Over the junior hurdles, he ran 7.50 seconds indoors, which equalled theWorld indoor junior recordofKonstadinos Douvalidis.[4]Outdoors, he won the 2014 British U20 Championships with aEuropean junior recordof 13.17 seconds for the 99 cm hurdles event.[5]This was later beaten that year byWilhem Belocianof France.[6]He came up against his rival at the2014 World Junior Championships in Athleticsand, though Belocian won, Omoregie took the bronze medal.[7]Over the senior height hurdles, Omoregie set a best of 13.53 seconds that year and was the winner at theWelsh Athletics Championships.[2]

Senior career

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His senior career proper began in 2015 and he competed in the indoor circuit. He was runner-up toLawrence Clarkeat theBritish Indoor Athletics Championshipsand made the semi-finals at the2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships(his senior international debut).[2]He moved to Loughborough and began working withBenke Blomkvist– coach toDai Greene.He won the British under-23 title outdoors and followed this with a win at the2015 European Athletics U23 Championshipsin 13.63 seconds.[8]He slightly improved his best towards the end of the season, with 13.50 seconds at theLondon Grand Prix.[9]

At the 2016 Welsh Indoor Championships, he was runner-up toDavid Kingwhile at the British Indoor Championships, he came third afterAndrew Pozziand Lawrence Clarke.[10]He topped the podium at the British Universities Championships indoor and outdoors, however. He was beaten into second place by King at the British U23 Championships and was behind him in fourth at theBritish Athletics Championships.A sudden improvement to 13.25 seconds came inLoughborough.This moved him to fifth on the all-time British rankings for the 110 m hurdles, but was a week after the deadline for Olympic qualifying times.[11]He was fifth at the London Grand Prix that year and won theEnglish Athletics Championships.He demonstrated his run in Loughborough was not a one-off with a win at theISTAF Berlin,recording a new best of 13.24 seconds and beating world medallistPascal Martinot-Lagarde.[12]

Personal bests

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Senior
Junior
  • 110 m hurdles (99 cm) – 13.17 (2014)
  • 60 m hurdles (99 cm) – 7.50 (2014)
  • Decathlon– 6723 pts (2013)
  • Indoor heptathlon– 5067 pts (2013)
  • High Jump - 192 cm (2013)

All information from All-Athletics profile[13]

International competitions

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2013 European Junior Championships Rieti,Italy 5th 110 m hurdles (99 cm) 13.49
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene,United States 3rd 110 m hurdles (99 cm) 13.35
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague,Czech Republic 8th (sf) 60 m hurdles 7.76
European U23 Championships Tallinn,Estonia 1st 110 m hurdles 13.63
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade,Serbia 12th (h) 60 m hurdles 7.71
European Team Championships Lille,France 3rd 110 m hurdles 13.36
World Championships London, United Kingdom 26th (h) 110 m hurdles 13.59
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast,Australia 14th (h) 110 m hurdles 14.20

National titles

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References

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  1. ^abDavid Omoregie.European Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-09-12.
  2. ^abcdDavid Omoregie.Power of 10. Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  3. ^Moss, Emily (2014-05-08).David Omoregie: Teenage barrier breaker.Athletics Weekly.Retrieved on 2016-09-12.
  4. ^Omoregie’s world U20 60m hurdles record ratified.Athletics Weekly(2016-02-16). Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  5. ^Omoregie hurdles his way into the record books.European Athletics (2014-06-24). Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  6. ^Belocian takes back European Junior record.European Athletics (2014-07-09). Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  7. ^Belocian breaks world junior record, Omoregie bags bronze in Eugene.Athletics Weekly(2014-07-25). Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  8. ^European Athletics U23 Championships: David Omoregie wins gold.BBC Sport (2015-07-11). Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  9. ^David Omoregie.IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  10. ^British Championships Sheffield 27-28 Feb 16.Power Of 10. Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  11. ^Griffiths, Gareth (2016-07-14).Cardiff hurdler David Omoregie posts stunning personal best at Loughbourough.Wales Online. Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  12. ^Cardiff hurdler David Omoregie sets new personal best in Berlin.Wales Online (2016-09-04). Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
  13. ^David OmoregieArchived5 October 2015 at theWayback Machine.All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-09-11.
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