Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake

Early life and career He was born to Joseph Blake and Audrey Mitchell-Blake in Newham, London, and is of Jamaican descent. His family relocated to Jamaica when he was age thirteen. Having already competed extensively as a child in the UK, his talent for sprinting was recognised by Jamaica College, who took him on, and he competed at the Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships. After a 200 m win at the 2011 Jamaican junior championships in a personal best of 21.54 seconds, he was selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics and finished fifth in his semi-final.

In his second year at Louisiana he failed to improve after an injury-affected indoor season, having a best of 20.69 seconds. He was again a semi-finalist at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships, though he claimed his first top three finish there with LSU in the 4 × 100 metres relay. coming within one hundredth of the British record for the 200 m with his winning time of 19.95 seconds. He completed a regional triple by taking the 100 m individual and relay events, too.

Mitchell-Blake anchored the men's 4 × 100 m relay team to a gold medal at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. He ran the same leg at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, with the team finishing in silver medal position with a new European record of 37.36 seconds.

Mitchell-Blake won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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