Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake
Mitchell-Blake at the 2022 European Championships
Personal information
Full nameNethaneel Joseph Mitchell-Blake
NationalityBritish
English
Born (1994-04-02) 2 April 1994 (age 30)
Newham, London
EducationLouisiana State University
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Country Great Britain
 England
SportMen's Athletics
EventSprinting
ClubLouisiana State University Tigers[2]
Coached byDennis Shaver[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m – 9.99 (2017)
150 m - 14.81(2018)(European record)[3][4]
200 m – 19.95 (2016)[5]
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris 4x100 m relay
Disqualified 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Eugene 4×100 m relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Berlin 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich 4x100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2018 Berlin 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2022 Munich 200 m
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m relay

Nethaneel Joseph Mitchell-Blake (born 2 April 1994, London) is a British sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres and the 4 x 100 metre relay. He was the 2013 European Junior Champion and his personal best of 19.95 seconds ranks him as the second-fastest in Britain of all-time in the individual event. He is only the second Briton, after Adam Gemili to break both 10 seconds for 100 metres and 20 seconds for 200 metres.

Part of the Great Britain 4 x 100-metre relay team that won the World title in 2017, he won his first major individual honour, a silver medal, in the individual 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships before claiming another relay title running for Great Britain, the eventual gold medalists, in the heats of the 4 x 100 metres.[6]

On 18 February 2022 it was announced that Nethaneel and his teammates CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes and Richard Kilty would be stripped of their 4 × 100 metres relay 2020 Summer Olympics silver medals after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found CJ Ujah guilty of a doping violation.[7]

Four years later, Mitchell-Blake regained an Olympic medal when Great Britain won the bronze medal in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, along with Hughes and Kilty, in addition to debutants Jeremiah Azu and Louie Hinchliffe.[8]

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  7. ^ BBC Breaking News [@BBCBreaking] (18 February 2022). "Great Britain stripped of silver medal in men's 4x100m relay at Tokyo Olympics after team member CJ Ujah found to have committed doping violation https://t.co/e2kFkX4akM" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ "Men's 4x100m relay claim blistering bronze | Team GB". www.teamgb.com. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.