Eugene Amo-Dadzie

Eugene Amo-Dadzie (born 22 June 1992) is a British athlete who competes as a sprinter. He was a bronze medalist over 60 metres at the 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships and the 2023 British Athletics Championships.

Late starter
Amo-Dadzie didn’t start competing until he was twenty-six years-old, by which time he was a qualified chartered accountant. He competed at the British Athletics Championships for the first time in 2019, finishing fifth in his semi-final.

A Woodford Green athlete, Amo-Dadzie ran a new personal best time over 100m of 10.20 seconds to finish second at the 2021 British Athletics Championships in Bedford. In August 2022 he lowered his 100m personal best to 10.05 in Stratford. This placed him third over 100m by fastest time by UK athletes in 2022.

First British selection
In February 2023 he finished third behind Reece Prescod and Jeremiah Azu at the British Indoor Athletics Championships 60m race, held in Birmingham. They were subsequently selected for the Great Britain squad for the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships held at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul. He qualified for the semi-finals of the 60m on his major championships debut.

Breaking the ten-second barrier
On 16 June 2023 he clocked 9.93 seconds for the 100m wearing an iconic TF1 Athletic all-in-one suit at a meeting in Graz, Austria to break the 10-second barrier for the first time. In July 2023, competing at the British Championships in Manchester, he reached the final in the 100m and finished third overall.

He was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, to make his world championship debut at the age of 31 He reached the semi-finals of the 100 metres. Later that year he was granted UK Sport’s national lottery funded world class programme for the first time.

In April 2024, he was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.

Personal life
From Rainham, Amo-Dadzie said he felt a responsibility to speak out to encourage BAME people to consider taking the covid-19 vaccine in order to quell concerns they may have. Eugene is married with children. His parents are of Ghanaian heritage and his mother worked as a social carer and his father worked on the London Underground. He has two sisters. After university he began working in accounting; as of 2023 he was working as a senior accountant for a subsidiary of Berkeley Group, St George plc.