Jake Odey-Jordan

Jake Odey-Jordan (born 22 December 2007) is a British sprinter. He won bronze at the 2024 U20 World Championships over 200 metres.^[1]

He was born in Hackney, East London, and lived in Essex, London.^[2] He attended St. Vincent Pallotti High School in Laurel, Maryland, and during the 2023 outdoor season recorded a win in the Freshman 200 at New Balance Outdoor Nationals. He then moved to the Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C., for their superior track facilities.^[3]

Competing at the New Balance Indoors Championships in March 2024, he won the 200 metres in 20.66 seconds and was part of the winning 4 × 200 m relay team.^[4] In the spring of 2024, he set a new 100 metres personal best in 10.38 seconds.^[5] He later lowered his 200 metres personal best to 20.55 seconds.^[6]

He competed at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Slovakia in July 2024. Whilst leading his 200 metres qualification heat by a significant distance, he slowed down dramatically and was overtaken before the line and did not progress.^[7][8] After the race, he said he admitted he was at fault and "so I cannot be sad about anything but myself".^[9][10]

He was the bronze medalist over 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru.^[11] Later at the Championships, he won silver in the 4 x 100 metres relay.^[12][13]

In October 2024, he was nominated by Athletics Weekly for best British male junior.^[14] In November 2024, he was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. On the same day he signed with WME marketing Agency.^[15] In December 2024, he signed a Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) contract with New Balance.^[16]

He was named in the British team for the 200 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, qualifying for the final in 21.28 seconds but later withdrew.^[17][18] In October 2025, he was retained on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.^[19]

On 17 January 2026, he ran the second fastest indoors 300m time in American high-school history with 32:63 behind Tate Taylor at the VA Showcase.^[20] The time also set a British record at the less-commonly run distance, surpassing Robert Tobin's mark set in 2006.^[21] He became the Nike Indoor Nationals 200 champion. In April, he broke his own British record for 300 m at the Miramar Invitational, running 32.43.^[22] Later that month, Odey-Jordan ran a wind-assisted 9.94 (+3.3) for the 100 metres in Gainesville, Florida, faster than the European U20 all-conditions record for the 100 metres previously held by Mark Lewis-Francis.^[23] Running over 200 m at the same meeting, he ran a wind-legal personal best of 20.33 to move to fifth on the European U20 all-time list, earning a victory over two-time world 100m medallist Trayvon Bromell.^[24] On 17 May 2026, he ran a 100 m personal best of 10.07 s (+1.6) at the Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo, placing third in 10.09 in the final behind Noah Lyles and Tate Taylor.^[25][26] The time moved him to equal fourth on the European U20 all-time list.^[27]