Nicholas Percy

Nicholas Percy
nation	United Kingdom of Scotland
birthday	5th December 1994 (age 25)
place of birth	Glasgow , UK
size	189 cm
Weight	125 kg
job	college student
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	63.38 m (July 22, 2016 in Helsingborg )
society	Shaftesbury Barnet
Trainer	Raymond Scovell (until 2010) William Bushnell (2011) John Hillier (2012 to 2013) Vésteinn Hafsteinsson (since 2014)
status	active
Medal table
U20 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Junior European Championships silver Rieti 2013 62.04 m (1.75 kg)
last change: April 27, 2020

Nicholas Percy (born December 5, 1994 in Glasgow ) is a British athlete who specializes in discus throwing.

Athletic career

Nicholas Percy gained his first international experience at the 2011 Youth World Championships near Lille , where he finished seventh with a width of 58.95 m. He then won the silver medal in the discus throw at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Douglas with 62.96 m and the bronze medal in the hammer throw with 64.96 m. The following year he took part in the Junior World Championships in Barcelona , where he reached eighth place with 57.79 m, and in 2013 he won the silver medal at the European Junior Championships in Rieti with 62.04 m. The following year he first took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , but retired there with 56.71 m in qualification. In 2017 he finally took part in the World Championships in London , but did not reach the final there with 56.93 m . Two years later he took seventh place at the Summer Universiade in Naples with 60.92 m.

In 2016, 2017 and 2019 Percy became the British discus thrower. He is a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and became an NCAA college master in 2016.

Web links

• Nicholas Percy in the database of World Athletics (English)