Jake Heyward (born 26 April 1999) is a Welsh middle-distance runner. He was a silver medalist at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the 1500m.

Career

Heyward was a European champion at under-18 and under-20 level. He turned professional in 2020 with the Oregon Track Club. Heyward went into the British Athletics Championship and Olympic trials in Manchester with a with a 3:33.99 personal best for the

1,500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics (sport), athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Champi ...

race, which was below the minimum Olympic standard. He had also broken

Neil Horsfield Neil Horsfield (born 7 December 1966) is a Welsh former athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres and 1500 metres. He won a silver medal in the 1500m at the 1985 European Junior Championships, before going on to represent Wales at two Commonw ...

’s 31 year old Welsh record set in Brussels in 1990. On 26 June, 2021 Heyward finished third in the 1,500m at the British championship to secure a place on the British team for the delayed

2020 Summer Games 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 1 ...

. In Tokyo, despite being hampered by an Achilles injury Heyward came through the heats and semi-finals and came ninth in the final of the 1500m. In 2022, Heyward finished as runner-up in the Fifth Avenue Mile behind three-time winner Jake Wightman. He came fifth in the 1500m race at the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...

1500m race in a new personal best time of 3:31.08 and then won silver in the 2022 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

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Jake Heyward
at Welsh Athletics * * * * * * Living people 1999 births Welsh male middle-distance runners Sportspeople from Cardiff Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Great Britain European Athletics Championships medalists Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Wales-athletics-bio-stub