Naomi Metzger

Naomi Metzger (born 18 April 1998) is a British track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. She holds a personal best of 14.37 m (set in 2022) and is a ten-time British champion (6 outdoors, 4 indoors). She represented Great Britain in the triple jump at the 2018 and 2022 European Athletics Championships, the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the 2022 World Athletics Championships. She also represented England in the triple jump at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal in a new personal best of 14.37m.

Career Ogbeta began taking part in athletics at the age of 13, signing up with Salford Metropolitan Athletics Club. She won two Greater Manchester schools titles over 200 metres in 2012 and 2013. She joined Trafford AC in Manchester in 2014 and, after a switch to the triple jump, she won the English Schools' Athletics Championships. Having won her first English under-20 title, she made her international debut at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics and narrowly missed out on the final, jumping the same distance of 12.75 m as qualifier Yelena Drozhilina. In 2016 she was the English Under-20 Champion both indoors and out. She won at the 2019 British Indoor Athletics Championships with 14.05 m – her first clearance over fourteen metres indoors. She was 2 centimetres off qualifying for the final at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking ninth place. She won the English U23 title and a third straight British title at the 2019 British Athletics Championships. She placed fourth at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships and seventh at the 2019 European Team Championships Super League that summer.

In 2021, shortly before her marriage, she became British champion for the fifth successive year when winning the triple jump event at the 2021 British Athletics Championships with a jump of 14.04 metres. The following year under her married name of Metzger, she won a sixth title at the 2022 British Athletics Championships and followed this up two years later with a seventh at the 2024 British Athletics Championships.

Personal life She lives in Salford. She was a member of the Salford Youth Council and has appeared on BBC News television and radio, discussing Brexit. She is of Nigerian and Jamaican heritage.

International competitions

National titles British Athletics Championships Triple jump: 2017, 2018, 2019 British Indoor Athletics Championships Triple jump: 2018, 2019, 2020