Renee Regis
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| Nationality | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 September 2005 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 60m: 7.39 (Sheffield, 2023) 100m: 11.18 (London, 2025) 200m: 22.67 (London, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
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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]
Biography
[edit]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, making her senior international debut in the women's 4 x 100 m relay as the team qualified for the 2027 World Championships.[18][19] On 20 June, Regis placed fifth in the final of the 100 metres at the 2026 UK Championships.[20] In July 2026, she was selected to represent England at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[21]
Personal life
[edit]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.[22][23] She studies finance and accounting at Brunel University.[24]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Renee Regis". World Athletics. Retrieved May 29, 2023.
- ↑ Henderson, Jason (July 8, 2022). "British under-18 athletes rule Europe". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved May 29, 2023.
- ↑ "FINAL SELECTIONS CONFIRMED FOR THE EUROPEAN U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS". 19 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
- ↑ "REGIS, EZE & ANYAOGU LOWER PBS AS GB & NI ADVANCE IN JERUSALEM". British Athletics. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ↑ Henderson, Jason (August 8, 2023). "GB sprinters one-two at Euro U20 Champs". Athletics Weekly.
- ↑ "GB & NI CLAIM 4X400M RELAY GOLD & TWO SILVERS TO END EURO U20S ON HIG". British Athletics. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ↑ "England Athletics U20 & Senior track & field champs (inc U23), Senior Para Champs (U20 & over)". World Athletics. 19 July 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ↑ "GB & NI SQUAD ANNOUNCED FOR THE WORLD ATHLETICS U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS LIMA 2024". British Athletics. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ "ODEY-JORDAN WINS 200M BRONZE AT WORLD UNDER-20S IN LIMA". British Athletics. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ↑ "2024-25 OLYMPIC FUTURES PROGRAMME ATHLETES ANNOUNCED". British Athletics. 11 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ↑ "MOLLY PALMER IMPRESSES IN LOUGHBOROUGH LONG JUMP AS JAZ SAWYERS RETURNS". Athletics Weekly. 18 May 2025. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
- ↑ "UK Championship". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
- ↑ "UK Championships". World Athletics. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- ↑ "2025-26 OLYMPIC FUTURES PROGRAMME ATHLETES ANNOUNCED". British Athletics. 23 October 2025. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "REGIS TURNS BACK THE CLOCK WITH RECORD RUN AT NOVUNA UK ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. 15 Feb 2026. Retrieved 15 Feb 2026.
- ↑ Mills, Steven (15 Feb 2026). "Azu completes the sprint double at the UK Indoor Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 14 Feb 2026.
- ↑ Nelson, Craig (15 February 2026). "Renee adds to Regis legacy with first UK title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
- ↑ "ZHARNEL HUGHES, CHARLIE DOBSON, DESIREE HENRY AMONG GB RELAY TEAM FOR BOTSWANA". Athletics Weekly. 4 March 2026. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
- ↑ "MIXED 4X400M RELAY BRONZE AND FIVE TEAMS QUALIFIED FOR WORLDS IN BOTSWANA". British Athletics. 3 May 2026. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ "Novuna UK Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 20 June 2026. Retrieved 20 June 2026.
- ↑ "Eight athletes join Team England's track and field squad". Team England. 23 July 2026. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ "Gold rush for British under-18 athletes in Jerusalem". Athletics Weekly. July 6, 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2023.
- ↑ Heath, Georgie (August 6, 2023). "Teenage sprinter Renee Regis on the rise". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ↑ Broadbent, Rick (14 March 2026). "Renee Regis: I watch Dad's races on YouTube but he never pressures me". The Times. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
