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Tayleb Willis (born 18 March 2003) is an Australian athlete Competing in the 110m hurdles

Nationality - Australian/west African

Born - 18 March 2003 (Age 18) Melbourne, Australia

Height - 5ft 11 in (181 cm)

Sport —-

Country - Australia.

Sport - Track & Field.

Event (s) - 110m hurdles.

Club - Ringwood Athletics club.

Team - Athletics Australia.

Coach - Peter Benifer.

Achievements and titles

He is currently the 3rd fastest Australian junior of all time in the 110mhurdles


 * he was ranked first in the world for U18 110m hurdles during 2020
 * And is now currently ranked 1st in the world for U20 110mhurdles
 * He was also selected to represent Australia in the World U20 championships in Kenya
 * 5 x National champion
 * U20 national meet record holder
 * 12 x state records

Other achievements


 * In 2016 at the start of Tayleb’s journey. he and he’s sister Had Herald sun write a article on them. https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/sportsstar/hurdling-brother-and-sister-chasing-national-success/news-story/0f2729174dc54c03171bffe7cf6c8e47%3famp
 * Tayleb and he’s family have featured on 7 news Melbourne in 2019 in regards to there family success.
 * Tayleb has featured on many popular sport organisations social media pages such as Sports center, Overtime and many more

Other interests and hobbies


 * Tayleb outside of track&field is known for having a large following base on he’s social media platforms.  Especially tiktok where he entertains more than 280,000 people with he’s athletics skills.

Article links

https://www.athletics.com.au/news/willis-wows-the-crowd-in-sydney/

http://livingtoday.org.au/uploads/Living%20Today%20September%202019.pdf

https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/willis-wows-crowds-in-sydney-as-more-juniors-notch-up-world-under-20-qualifiers/

Biography

Family and beginnings


 * Willis was born on the 18th of March 2003 in The eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria From an Australian mother Christine willis and an Ghanaian (west African) father Isaac Williams. Giving him the Australian/African nationality. Tayleb has always looked up to he’s older sister lateisha willis age 21 as she was a very talented hurdler as a junior as she competed in the 2018 World U20 championships in Finland and won a silver medal at the commonwealth youth games and has competed amongst great household names like sally pearson.
 * At only 8 years old willis started he’s athletics career at the Yarra ranges athletics club in the eastern metropolitan region of Melbourne, with he’s siblings at the time. Tayleb before becoming a professional young athlete he enjoyed playing other sports as a kid. He played AFL football for 4 years at the Kilsyth cougars football club in Melbourne. he’s Short football career was an success as he won league best&fairest in U14 boys in 2016. Amongst that Tayleb also qualified for inter league competition and won multiple club best&fairest awards. Tayleb and he’s siblings continued the sport tradition by playing gymnastics at a young age which gave Tayleb the flexibility for he’s hurdling success today.