Renee Regis

Renee Regis (born 2 September 2005) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. She won the 200 metres title at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships.^[1]

Regis won bronze in the individual 100m and gold in the relay medley at the 2022 European under-18 championships.^[2]

She was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel in August 2023.^[3] She lowered her personal best over 100m to 11.36s at the event.^[4] In the final she won the 100m silver medal in a British one-two with Joy Eze.^[5] Eze and Regis were then part of a 4 × 100 m relay team that won silver at the championships.^[6]

In July 2024 she won the 200 metres at the English U20 Championships in Birmingham.^[7] She was selected for the 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru where she placed sixth in the final.^[8][9] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025.^[10]

She ran a personal best 11.32 seconds to win the 100 metres at the Loughborough International in May 2025.^[11] On 2 August, she finished sixth in the final of the 100 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham in 11.38 seconds.^[12] She returned the following day to finish in fifth place in the 200 metres, in a personal best 22.68 seconds.^[13] In October 2025, she was retained on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.^[14]

On 15 February 2026, Regis won the British national title over 200 metres at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships. On her way to the title, Regis won her semi-final in 22.89 seconds to move to third on the British all-time indoor list.^[15] As well as breaking the championship record which had been set by Merlene Ottey running as a guest in 1990, she became the first woman to run below 23 seconds at the championships.^[16] At the conclusion of the race, her father John was part of the medal ceremony, which she described as "a nice moment…he didn’t tell me he was doing it".^[17]

Regis was named in the British squad for the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana.^[18]

From London, she is the daughter of British international athletes Jennifer Stoute and John Regis. Her sister Alicia also competes as an athlete. Renee was a keen netball player before concentrating on athletics.^[19][20] She studies finance and accounting at Brunel University.^[21]