Adam Gemili

Adam Gemili
Adam Gemili in the final of the 200 m run at the 2016 Olympics
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	6th October 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	London , UK
size	180 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.97 s ( 100 m ) 19.97 s ( 200 m )
Trainer	Michael Afilaka
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 1 × 0 × European championships 4 × 0 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 2 × 0 × Medals Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Medals Junior European Championship 0 × 2 × 0 × Medals U23 European Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold London 2017 4 × 100 m silver Doha 2019 4 × 100 m  European championships gold Zurich 2014 200 m gold Zurich 2014 4 × 100 m gold Amsterdam 2016 4 × 100 m gold Berlin 2018 4 × 100 m  Commonwealth Games silver Glasgow 2014 100 m silver Glasgow 2014 4 × 100 m  Junior World Championships gold Barcelona 2012 100 m  Junior European Championships silver Tallinn 2011 100 m silver Tallinn 2011 4 × 100 m  U23 European Championships gold Tampere 2013 100 m
last change: October 5th, 2019

Adam Gemili (born October 6, 1993 in London ) is a British sprinter .

Life

Adam Gemili was born in London to a Moroccan and an Iranian woman . Adam Gemili attended Dartford Grammar School from the age of eleven . He then studied at Barking and Dagenham College in London, where he completed the BTEC Extended Diploma in Sport with the aim of going to university . After the London Olympics in 2012, he began studying sport at the University of East London .

In his youth he was a football player for both Chelsea FC and Reading FC . As a right back, he later played in Football League Two for Dagenham & Redbridge until August 2011 , before moving to Thurrock FC on loan. He recognized his potential as a sprinter and decided in January 2012 to give up his football career and focus his full attention on the sprint routes. Since July 1, 2012, he has not officially played for a professional soccer team.

Career as a sprinter

In October 2011, he joined Michael Afilaka's training group at the Lee Valley Olympic Base in north London. He competed in his first major competition at the 2011 European Junior Championships in Tallinn, where he won the silver medal behind Jimmy Vicaut with 10.41 seconds . He also helped the British 4 x 100 meter relay team to the silver medal. At the National Junior Athletic League Finals in Derby, he won the 200-meter distance; his 20.98 seconds meant the fastest time of the year for a European junior.

Gemili ran the qualification time for the Olympic Games on June 2, 2012 at the Sparkasse Gala in Regensburg, three weeks before the British Olympic Trials, he also set a new personal best with 10.08 seconds. His time was the second fastest ever run by a British junior, only Dwain Chambers was faster in 1997 with 10.06 seconds. Because of his achievements, Gemili was nominated on July 3 as part of the British relay team for the Olympics in London . On July 11th, he won the gold medal over 100 meters at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona. With 10.05 s he not only set a new personal best, but also a new record for the Junior World Championships. At the Olympic Games in front of his home crowd, he qualified for the semi-finals with a second place in 10.11 seconds. There he had to admit defeat to the competition despite 10.06 s and missed the final by only four hundredths of a second. In the relay competition, Great Britain was disqualified in the first round because the handover between Daniel Talbot and Gemili did not take place in the handover zone. On August 17th, he started at DN Galan in Stockholm for the first time at a Diamond League meeting. He crossed the finish line in fifth with 10.22 seconds.

At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, he increased his best performance over the 200-meter course in the semifinals to 19.98 s, making him the ninth European to stay under 20 seconds before finishing fifth in the final with 20.08 s.

He started the 2014 season with times close to his personal best. 10.07 s and 10.11 s were enough for third place at the Diamond League meetings in Rome and Oslo . After a disappointing 20.64 s and a second place over 200 meters at the British Championships, he improved his 100-meter best time in Mannheim to 10.04 s. His first participation in the Commonwealth Games , in July 2014, led to the first medals. Over the 100-meter distance and together with the relay, he won silver each time. At the European Championships in Zurich in 2014 , Gemili won the gold medals over 200 meters and with the relay in 19.98 seconds.

On June 7, 2015, he set a new personal best in Birmingham. At 9.97 seconds, he is the hundredth sprinter who could run in less than 10 seconds. During the race, he tore a hamstring in his thigh, which is why he had to cancel his participation in the World Championships in Beijing .

At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , he won again with the British relay. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he narrowly missed a medal in the 200-meter final, finishing fourth. With the season he was fifth.

At the 2017 World Championships in London, Gemili won the gold medal with the British team in the 4 x 100 meter relay race . In 2018 he reached the 100 meter final at the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , but did not start there again due to an injury.

In 2016 and 2019 , Gemili was British champion in the 200-meter run.

Personal best

discipline	Time (s)	Wind (m / s)	place	date
100 m	9.97	+2.0	Birmingham, UK	June 7, 2015
200 m	19.97	+0.8	Brussels Belgium	September 9, 2016

Web links

• Adam Gemili in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait of Adam Gemili at Team GB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ independent.co.uk: Gemili the fastest learner in the Olympic heartland , October 7, 2012
2. ↑ transfermarkt.de: player profile of Adam Gemili ,
3. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Olympianormen in Regensburg , June 2, 2012
4. ↑ Ex-footballer defeats Lemaitre. sport1.de, August 15, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Flash news of the day. (No longer available online.) Leichtathletik.de, August 17, 2015, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 22, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.