Charlie Dobson is a British sprinter, who came second in the 200 metres event at the

2018 IAAF World U20 Championships The 2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1999) which was held at Tampere Stadium ...

. He was part of the British team that won the relay at the

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Personal life

Dobson is from

Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colches ...

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, England. He studied at St Benedict's Catholic College and

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. As of 2022, he is a student of

aeronautical engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: Aeronautics, aeronautical engineering and Astronautics, astronautical engineering. A ...

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

Career

Dobson competes for Colchester Harriers Athletics Club. He won his first international competition, which was the Loughborough International meeting. He came second in the 200 metres event at the

, finishing behind teammate Jona Efoloko. Dobson had set personal best times in the heat and semi-finals of the competition. In 2020, Dobson set the British Universities & Colleges Sport record for the 60 metres event. In 2021, Dobson ran the 400 metres event once. His finishing time was the joint fastest by a Briton that year, tied with

Matthew Hudson-Smith Matthew Hudson-Smith (born 26 October 1994) is a British track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He holds, as of July 2022, the British record, running a personal best of 44.35 seconds for the distance set at Eugene, Orego ...

. He was selected in the British team for the 2021 World Athletics Relays, but injured himself prior to the event. The injury also prevented him from attempting to qualify for the delayed

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

; he had been hoping to make the British 4 x 400 metres team at the Games. He spent 10 months out with injury before returning in February 2022 at the Loughborough Indoor Open. In April 2022, Dobson ran a 200 metres event in 20.19, the 11th fastest time by a Briton in history. Later in the year, he ran a wind-assisted 19.99 seconds to beat

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Nethaneel Joseph Mitchell-Blake (born 2 April 1994, London) is a British sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. He was the 2013 European Junior Champion and his personal best of 19.95 seconds ranks him as the second-fastest in Britain of a ...

. He was part of the British team that won the relay at the

, alongside Matthew Hudson-Smith,

Alex Haydock-Wilson Alex Haydock-Wilson (born 28 July 1999) is a British track and field athlete. In 2023, he became British 400 metres champion. Haydock-Wilson studied Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Loughborough. In 2022, he was awarded a ...

and Lewis Davey. It was his first major relay. Dobson also finished fourth in the individual 200 metres event.

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