Draft:Isabel Wakefield

Isabel Wakefield (born 5 January 2000) is a British track and field athlete. In 2023, she became English national champion and UK Championships runner-up in the 100m hurdles.

Early life
From Barnstaple, Devon, she attended West Buckland School and ran cross country and played netball for her county. She gained undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Duke University.

Career
Wakefield was the English Schools Champion in the Hurdles and the Heptathlon in 2015. She scored a personal-best tally of 4996 points to finish in second place at the England Athletics U20 heptathlon in 2017.

In February 2022, she finished second in the ACC Championships and qualified for Duke University for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the pentathlon. In May 2023, she finished third at the ACC Championships competing for Duke University in the long jump.

In 2023, she was runner up at the UK Championships in the 100m hurdles, in a time of 13.05 seconds. She then became English national champion in the 100m hurdles in July 2023.

She ran a time of of 13.23 seconds to qualify for the final of the 100m hurdles at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester on 29 June 2024. She placed sixth in the final.

Personal life
In her academic life she has researched health equity in sports for female athletes, and by 2024 she was a research specialist in Exercise and Health Behavior in the Oncology Laboratory at the University of Michigan.