Yemi Mary John
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 May 2003 London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | USC Trojans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400 m: 51.04s (Espoo, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yemi Mary John (born 3 May 2003) is a British track and field athlete. She won the gold medal in the 400 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Under-20 Championships.
Career
Yemi Mary John ran a new personal best to finish runner up in the 400 metres at the 2021 European Under-20 Championships in Tallinn.[1]
She was a member of the British 4 × 400 m relay team that finished fifth at the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade.[2]
Yemi was crowned the winner at the 2022 World U20 Championship 400 m event in Cali, Colombia as she lowered her personal best throughout the rounds to win the final in 51.50 seconds, the second fastest time ever recorded by a British under-20 athlete, after Linsey MacDonald's 51.16 s from 1980. She later also won bronze in the 4x400 m relay race at the event.[3][4]
Competing at the British Athletics Championships in July 2023, in Manchester, England, she reached the final of the women's 400m and finished in 3rd place.[5] She was selected as part of the Great Britain team for the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships held from in July 2023 in Espoo, Finland.[6] Yemi Mary John won a gold medal in the 400m at the event, with compatriot Keely Hodgkinson in third.[7]
She was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[8] Running the anchor leg in the mixed 4 x 400-metre relay, she took advantage of a late, dramatic fall by Femke Bol of the Netherlands to win world silver, her first senior representative medal.[9] A week later, she ran in the heats of the women's 4 x 400 metres relay, winning a bronze medal.
After winning the 400 metres bronze medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships, John was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[10]
Personal life
Yemi has a Nigerian father (Christopher Olanrewaju John) and an Italian mother (Gabriella Faciotti) who lives in London.[11] She was set to join the University of Michigan as a freshman in 2023,[12] but signed for the University of Southern California.[13]
References
- ^ "European U/20 Silver for Yemi Mary John". wgel.org.
- ^ "World Indoor Athletics Championships: British pair Lorraine Ugen and Marc Scott win bronze". Sky Sports.
- ^ "Yemi Mary John Crowned Women's 400m World U20 Champion". British Athletics.
- ^ "Two British medals as USA top medal table on final day in Cali". British Athletics.
- ^ "400 m-Women Final Finished 09/07/2023". ukacm2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ "Keely Hodgkinson and Jeremiah Azu to Captain GB & NI at European U23 Championships". British Athletics. 13 July 2023.
- ^ Goss, Symone (14 July 2023). "Yemi Mary John and Havard Bentdal Ingvaldsen win gold; bronze for Keely Hodgkinson in Espoo". World-Track. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
- ^ "GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND SQUAD SELECTED FOR THE 2023 WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPS". Britishathletics.org.uk. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ^ "'It sucks big time' – drama as star duo suffer falls". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ "Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Yemi Mary John, a little bit of Valenza in world gold". Ilpiccolo.net.
- ^ "John Wins World Athletics U20 Gold, Bronze". mgoblue.com.
- ^ "Yemi Mary John's golden gamble pays off in landmark season". Eurosport UK. 12 November 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
External links
World U20 Champions in women's 400 metres | |
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- 2003 births
- Living people
- 21st-century British women
- World Athletics U20 Championships winners
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- English people of Nigerian descent
- Sportspeople of Nigerian descent
- English people of Italian descent
- Sportspeople of Italian descent
- English female sprinters
- British female sprinters
- Black British sportswomen
- Athletes from London
- English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- USC Trojans women's track and field athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics