🇬🇧 @NewBalanceUK Athlete | World Champ 🌍 | Olympian
Joined December 2011
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Jake Wightman retweeted
2 Oct 2025
🏃🏻 Exclusive column with @JakeSWightman in tomorrow’s @metrosportHQ as he reveals his plan to run at the 2028 Los Angeles @Olympics after winning world silver in Tokyo.
📝 metro.co.uk/2025/10/02/jake-…
#Athletics #WorldAthleticsChampionships @NewBalanceUK @BritAthletics @MetroOpinion
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Jake Wightman retweeted
30 Apr 2024
‘Good or bad, it’s vital athletes let public see behind the curtain’
@JakeSWightman writes in tomorrow’s @metrosportHQ about why track and field needs to reach the public consciousness more.
👉🏻 metro.co.uk/2024/04/30/good-…
#Athletics #Olympics #Paris2024 @TNLUK @BritAthletics
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Jake Wightman retweeted
8 Feb 2024
Exclusive column from @JakeSWightman in tomorrow’s @metrosportHQ on his racing comeback, his hopes for @Paris2024 and his future in the sport.
✏️ metro.co.uk/2024/02/08/jake-…
#Athletics #Olympics #Paris2024
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Jake Wightman retweeted
1 Feb 2024
Introducing our February front cover 🥁
Our cover star is 2022 world 1500m champion @JakeSWightman ⚡️
The middle distance maestro opens up about his return to racing after over a year out with injury 🏃
@JakeSWightman explains how he's mentally battled through the past 12 months, why British 1500m running is now so good and Olympic ambitions at Paris 2024 🇬🇧
Read: mymagazinesub.co.uk/athletic…
Download: pocketmags.com/athletics-wee…
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Jake Wightman retweeted
30 Dec 2023
Bleak scenes to end 2023 - watching this cat get barred from poundland
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23 Dec 2023
Great to be back having a run out at my local this morning @bushyparkrun 🦌
Not your average parkrunner 😮💨
@JakeSWightman, the 2022 1500m world champion, led out Bushy Park parkrun this morning🌳
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Jake Wightman retweeted
21 Nov 2023
The road to Paris starts in Boston 🥇
These world champions and global medalists will kick off 2024 at @thetrackatnb on February 4:
🇺🇸 @LylesNoah
🇺🇸 @itsgabbyt
🇬🇧 @JakeSWightman
🎟️ #NBIGP tickets are now on sale at nbindoorgrandprix.com/ticket…
#WorldIndoorTour
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Jake Wightman retweeted
3 Nov 2023
I've just arrived in Mansfield for tomorrow's England Cross Country Relays, where 10 years ago I snapped future world champion @JakeSWightman running for @lborostudents in the junior men's race @SauconyUK @AthleticsWeekly @EnglandRunning
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Jake Wightman retweeted
24 Oct 2023
Birthday shout for the 'Tooby Twins' Susan & Angela🏴,
Mum and Aunt to the 2022 World 1500m. champion @JakeSWightman 📷MarkShearman @AthleticsWeekly @WelshAthletics
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23 Aug 2023
Incredible running from this little lad tonight. @joshk97 Champion of the World 👑 Made in Meadowbank.
23 Aug 2023
"What do you want to do when you grow up, lads?"
"Well..."
Two 1500m @WorldAthletics Champions right there.
@joshk97 @JakeSWightman rocking their junior @EdinburghAC vests & getting a taste for the win
@WightmanGeoff @jarrowarrow @MJGold @RealDeniseLewis @JNETTEKWAKYE @GabbyLogan
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Jake Wightman retweeted
26 Jul 2023
🇫🇷 Proud to launch @MailSport’s Paris 2024 project with one year to go until the Olympics.
Looking forward to following @TeamGB’s @deliciousboxing, @Amberjohill, @andreassirieix, @Brownskinjessie, @JakeSWightman & @KyeWhyte.
📸 @Andy_Hooper_DM
@TNLUK
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Jake Wightman retweeted
19 Jul 2023
It's a year to the day since @JakeSWightman beat Jakob Ingebrigtsen to a stunning world 1500m title in Oregon 🇬🇧
In doing so, he became only the second Brit after Steve Cram in 1983 to achieve the feat 🤯
Safe to say, @WightmanGeoff enjoyed it 😍
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Jake Wightman retweeted
5 Jul 2023
💥EXCLUSIVE💥Jake Wightman reveals he won't be defending his 1500metres world title this summer. metro.co.uk/2023/07/05/jake-…
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Jake Wightman retweeted
15 Jun 2023
It's the @BislettGames tonight, 6 years ago a youthful looking @JakeSWightman gave a hint of future triumphs when he romped to victory in the 1500m. @scotathletics @AthleticsWeekly 📷MarkShearman
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Jake Wightman retweeted
1 Jun 2023
.@AthleticsWeekly @BritAthletics @WorldAthletics Commentating on this legend striking 1,500m gold last Summer was 1 of the highlights of my career in Athletics, so I’m truly humbled to receive this good luck message from @JakeSWightman #miles4mates
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Jake Wightman retweeted
30 May 2023
“We’re not perfect all year round and I wanted to show we start from scratch.”
World 1500m champion @JakeSWightman, at @LondonMarathon last month, on why he started up a YouTube channel to inspire the next generation 💻
He will open up outdoors in Paris 💥
🎙️ @TimAdams76
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Jake Wightman retweeted
30 May 2023
The Golden Duo 🥇
@mattonthefloor and @JakeSWightman will light up the track at #LondonDL 🤩
#DiamondLeague #WhereItStarts
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20 Apr 2023
Looking forward to being back at the Mini London Marathon, 15 years after my first appearance there 👶🏻
20 Apr 2023
Over 7000 kids will be inspired when @JakeSWightman opens this year's TCS Mini London Marathon 💥
It will be a full-circle moment for the world 1500m champion who competed in the event in 2008 and 2009 🏃♂️
#LondonMarathon
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14 Apr 2023
I’ll be showing off my sporting knowledge (or lack of 🙃) on @QuestionofSport tonight.
Catch me on your box at 7:30pm on BBC One or @BBCiPlayer .
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Jake Wightman retweeted
28 Mar 2023
Exclusive column from @JakeSWightman in tomorrow’s @metrosportHQ on why his recent injury absence doesn’t threaten his world-title defence this summer.
metro.co.uk/2023/03/28/jake-…
#Athletics #Paris2024 #Budapest @TNLUK @LottoGoodCauses @BritAthletics @WorldAthletics @IgniteSport1
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