Luke Nuttall (born 17 September 2001) is a British Paralympic athlete who competes in the 1500m in the T46 classification.

Athletics career

Nuttall is based in Charnwood, and began his career competing in county and national-level events. He is coached by his mother,

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. By 2018, he had been selected for GB Paralympics, where aged 17 he won silver in the

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, finishing second to

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's Hristiyan Stoyanov. In 2020, he claimed bronze in the 2021 European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz with a seven-second personal best. Later that summer, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the

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in the T46 1500m.

Personal life

Nuttall was born in

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. He is the son of former British Olympic long-distance runners John Nuttall, and

, and has an older sister, Hannah Nuttall, who also became a runner. His stepmother and stepsister are

Liz McColgan Elizabeth Nuttall (née Lynch, formerly McColgan; born 24 May 1964) is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a ...

and

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, both of whom have also competed at the Olympics in long distance running.Hannah Nuttall Feature
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nuttall, Luke 2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Preston, Lancashire Paralympic athletes for Great Britain British male middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships 21st-century British people