He has run 24 parkruns with a best of 14:43 from a three-minute first-finish at Worthing in May 2019 and also ran a 14:48 at Dulwich that year. Athletics is easily the most successful sport in the history of SPOTY. Published In this video Jake gives a lot of good insight to his life and running career. Wightman took 1500m gold at the World Championships in Oregon on. Weve had some like size14 boots to fill for a long time now, he told the BBC. As world 1500m champion, a title he won in spectacular fashion in Eugene in July, Wightman has ensured he begins this year with an almighty target on his back. However Susan admitted that she couldnt watch the final lap because she was so nervous. He seemingly moved up a level in 2017 winning a good quality Bislett Games 1500m (above) but then got eliminated in the world semi-finals at London. Both competed in Seoul 1988, with his mum Susan coming 12th in the marathon, and his aunt, Angela Tooby-Smith, running in the 10,000m, Thats the funny thing, being an Olympian isnt really something that is a huge deal in my family, Wightman told the BBC. Post race it was clear Wightman, who gave brilliant interviews, was highly respected by his fellow athletes and opponents and they were genuinely pleased for him. Subscribe to AW today with more added benefits! 1968: David Hemery 7:11 AM EDT, Wed July 20, 2022. JAKE WIGHTMAN: WHO, WHY AND WHATS AT ALTITUDE. Briton reflects on sacrifices after winning world 1500m title, Father Geoff Wightman: I cant be biased, I have to be impartial. 3:29.23 1 Eugene 2022 I was the worst one in it, Wightman told the Norske Podcaster. I dont think people probably realize how crushing it is to go in with such high expectations, and come away, hoping for a medal, but ending up with 10th, he said, adding his only aim was to do better. The Scottish middle-distance athlete has a big summer ahead. The 28-year-old will get the chance to defend his 1500m title at . Jake Wightman has insisted that racing the 800m event at the European Championships has "given him a new lease of life". Wightman also revealed the sacrifices to his social life that he had made after the first gold medal of his career, before adding: When Im retired, fat and enjoying life a little bit I can look back on this and feel very proud that I did everything I could. Jake Wightman (born 11 July 1994) [5] is a Scottish middle-distance runner competing primarily in the 1500 metres. Records as of May 2020 1000m Indoor NR - 2:17.51 Major Championships and International Record 2022 - World Championships - 1500m GOLD, Commonwealth Games - 1500m BRONZE, European Championships - 800m SILVER The Power of 10 illustrates the challenge and is in place to motivate competitors, coaches and clubs. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. He produced a superb final burst to pass Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen and clinch the title, called home by his father Geoff who was the stadium announcer. This year he got in a better position earlier and didnt make an expansive move until the last backstraight where he passed Timothy Cheruiyot and moved up to Ingebrigtsens shoulder. Im very on it during the season. Jake Wightman flies the flag for track and field athletics at the 2022 BBC Sports Personality of the Year but the middle-distance runner will have to unleash the finishing kick of his life if. At the age of 24, Jake is just getting started. 2021 European Team Championships 800m 1st1:45.71 I dont know how many more opportunities I will get to do this and I hope there is a lot more to come. In his BBC Sport column, George Groves says Chris Eubank Jr handpicked Liam Smith and must win, and win well, to justify his big star billing. So its just another name, but I just didnt want to mess it up for him by doing anything wobbly., Wightman Jr, meanwhile, said he did not hear his fathers words as he powered down the final straight. A Warner Bros. Read about our approach to external linking. Subscribe to Jake's youtube to checkout what his day looked like the day of this workout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDTR7be73MM\u0026t=933sThe workout: 3 mile warmup 6x60 sec hills (2 mins)6x45 sec hills (90 secs)6x30 sec hills (60 secs) 2 mile cool down -- -- -- Jake's Instagram: @jakeswightman https://www.instagram.com/jakeswightman/Jakes youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9TVIVCQfWn9yj43OEhdRgZak Instagram: @zakeroohttps://www.instagram.com/zakeroo/Thomas Instagram: @thomas_.keenhttps://www.instagram.com/thomas_.keen/Sweat Elite Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sweatelite/Josh Thomson (Sweat Elite Videographer) Instagram: @jt.productions_https://www.instagram.com/jt.productions_/- -- -- Timecodes:00:00 - Intro, Warm Up, 11:50 - The Workout (18 hill repeats)24:16 - End of workout28:54 - Post Workout chat-- -- -- Members support our video production and it only costs as much as a Big Mac each month. The sport of Athletics has a mission to strengthen the depth for every event, in every age group across every nation and region of the UK. Last updated on 20 July 202220 July 2022.From the section Athletics. 2023 Cable News Network. His 2022 season saw him set a 3000m PB indoors of 7:37.81, finish third in the Dream Mile in 3:50.30 well behind Ingebrigtsen (3:46.46) and Olli Hoare (3:47.48) and he finally won a British Championships. After an arduous summer in which he famously won World 1500m gold and. When Geoff Wightman started commentating on his 10-year-old son's school sports days, he might not have imagined where the journey would lead them both. Jake Wightman flies the flag for track and field athletics at the 2022 BBC Sports Personality of the Year but the middle-distance runner will have to unleash the finishing kick of his life if he is to over-turn the hot favourite, footballer Beth Mead. All this achieved within a breathtaking three minutes 29.23 seconds in Oregon while dad and coach Geoff provided the stadium announcements and hero Cram was commentating for the BBC. 2017 World Championships 1500m 7thsemi final 3:41.79 Jake is coming off a chest infection and a sprained ankle and wants to show that even world champions have to start somewhere after each off season and you do not have to be perfect early on. England and Arsenal striker Mead is odds-on to lift the prize after a year which saw her win the Golden Boot and player of the tournament awards at Euro 2022 as the Lionesses made history at Wembley. Yet the fantastical became reality as Wightman scorched to gold by holding off Norway's Olympic champion in a magnificent tussle down the home straight. Former Open champion Shane Lowry says it's "going to be an interesting few months" as the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf continue their feud, writes Iain Carter. Accompanying Jake in the workout is steeple chase Olympian Zak Seddon and New Balance athlete Thomas Keen. [5][13], In September, he broke for the first time the 1:44-barrier in the 800m and Tom McKeans 33-year-old Scottish record of 1:43.88, taking his fifth overall Diamond League victory with a time of 1:43.65 in Brussels. "I have shown over the years glimpses of my potential to do good stuff at global championships, but I've not quite done it yet," Wightman had said. European Championships . on the mic and narrating his sons victory. Jake Wightman has been one of the worlds leading and most consistent 1500m runners for the last five years, but even though he was British champion there was still more attention on his Scottish rival Josh Kerr on the eve of the World Championships in Eugene. I switched off and didnt watch until the point that he won. 700m: 4th1:38.06 (13.77) Jake Wightman said: "Dad can be a bit of a robot . Ingebrigtsen took silver, with Spain's Mohamed Katir finishing strongly for bronze . You can vote by phone or online on the night for the main award, with full details announced during the show. Net Worth in 2022. Its that moment you cross the line, its just such euphoria, I just wish you could bottle that up because it soon fades away a little bit, Wightman told BBC Sport. While the womens 1500m consisted of a ridiculously first lap, the mens 1500m was just a fast steady race throughout which pretty much follows what happened in Doha in 2019 and Tokyo 2021. But it's nice to be able to carry that on, and now we've had two generations.. After an arduous summer in which he famously won World 1500m gold and. His 800m time in Eugene was almost identical to Tokyo but he run the last 500 metres almost six seconds quicker. 1972: Mary Peters 1300m: 1st3:02.12 (13.65) 3:34.17 1 Oslo 3:34.17 But Im so proud.. 23rd July 2018. 1995: Jonathan Edwards Along with Wightman and Mead, the other contenders are gymnast Jessica Gadirova, curlings Eve Muirhead, cricketer Ben Stokes and snooker player Ronnie OSullivan. He also won a European medal in Berlin that year as he finished a close third (3:38.25) behind 17- year-old Ingebrigtsen (3:38.10) and Polands ultra-consistent Marcin Lewandowski (3:38.14). Ive been doing his school sports day since he was about 11 because my wifes been his PE teacher, Wightman Sr said. WONDERFUL WIGHTMAN WINS IN OSLO. Born in Nottingham, Wightman is the son of two former marathon runners, mother Susan Tooby having competed against McColgan for Wales. 1978: Steve Ovett Id screened myself off from the last 200m because I was frightened that they were going to come streaming by him, she said. [8] That year Wightman became the first Briton to run below 1:45 in the 800 metres and 3:35 in the 1500m since Peter Elliott in 1991. By clicking Accept all you agree that Yahoo and our partners will process your personal information, and use technologies such as cookies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights, and product development. 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One of the first things he said was: Get ready for Commies now., The Commonwealth Games starts in Birmingham next week and Wightman, who has won European and Commonwealth bronze but only came 10th at the Olympics in Tokyo last year, confirmed he will be there before hopefully a tilt at the Europeans in August. Im 28 now, he said. [9], The 25-year-old placed fifth in the 1500m at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar, running 3:31.87 in the final. Jake Wightman has just had the run of his life, he said as his son crossed the line, before saying: My voice has gone., Afterwards, Wightman Sr admitted he had been thinking about the moment for a long time. In Japan, Wightman had looked superb in that semi where he set a seasons best but he seemed to pay in the 1500m final for moving up fast from 700m to 800m (13.5 as he passed 800m in 1:52.5) to close right up on the leaders but that seemingly finished him off and he drifted back to be 10th in 3:35.09. 2017 European Team Championships 1500m 2nd3:53.72 The PB of runner-up Turkeys Suleyman Bekmezci is still only 3:41.47 set in 2016 but his only known race in 2022 is a 67:56 half-marathon. Wightman's winning time of 3 minutes, 29.23 was the fastest in the world this year and underlined his pedigree. appreciated. Wightman had been regarded as an outsider in Eugene but no one had an answer to his sprint finish as he became the first British man since Steve Cram in 1983 to win a world 1500m gold medal and the first since Sebastian Coe in the 1984 Olympics to win a global title. Wightman had finished a disappointing 10th in the Olympic final last year but was ranked second in the world heading to Eugene having won a Diamond League meeting in Rabat in June before breaking the 40-year-old Scottish outdoor mile record. Jake Wightman plans to target a historic treble of medals after his stunning 1500m world championship gold by going for the Commonwealth 1500m title and the European 800m crown over the next five weeks. 3:33.48 1sf Tokyo 2021 "He wasn't smashing records when he was a junior, age-group records or anything. Other awards to be announced includeYoung Sports Personality of the Year,Team and Coach of the Year,Unsung Heroand the Helen Rollason Award. Its noticeable that earlier in the race, Ingebrigtsen was going slightly faster on the straights than the bends and the Norwegians quickest 100m was 13.42 to move into the lead between 600m and 700m. The first Briton to win the 1500m world title since Steve Cram in 1983. He is from United Kingdom. Wightman was the first British man to win the world 1500m title since Steve Cram in 1983. All Rights Reserved. So I cant be biased, I have to be impartial.. $1 Million - $5 Million. Wightman produced a stunning run at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon in July to become Britain's first 1,500 metres champion for nearly 40 years, with his father Geoff . Jake is a well-known Middle-class runner who is competing primarily in the 1500 meter. Mo Farah was the last winner of SPOTY from the sport of athletics. Gold was almost beyond his wildest dreams. Geoff represented England in the marathon in the 1990 Commonwealth Games, among other achievements. With a number of 1:44 clockings. His current 1,500m PB of 3:29.47 puts him second in the British all-time fastest 1,500m, ahead of big names such as Cram, Ovett and Coe, with only Mo Farah ahead of him. Training for Tokyo with Jake Wightman | Sport Dissected The Times and The Sunday Times 103K subscribers 7.7K views 2 years ago 260m in 70 seconds up the Mount - how can that be hard? I need to make the most of it. No, he said, 'I will try to win this'. But Wightman will be hoping for a podium place at least after his brilliant year which was capped by a world 1500m title in Eugene where he beat Jakob Ingebrigtsen. "It was already fast. The bronze medallist Julius Lawnik of Germany has also been largely anonymous and has a PB of 3:42.83 and has not finished a race of note in 2022. 2. He said it taught him some valuable lessons though, in particular about how and why he should improve many aspects of his training, such as recovery, eating well, and getting up and doing a run early rather than lying in. Jake is a well-known Middle-class runner who is competing primarily in the 1500 meter. Ive been doing his school sports day since he was about 11 because my wifes been his PE teacher, so weve just taken it to slightly bigger stadia, slightly bigger crowds and slightly bigger medals, Wightman Sr. explained later to BBC Sport, adding that he needed to be impartial in order to do his job. He won the gold medal at the 2022 World Championships, the first global gold in a middle distance event for a British male since Seb Coe's 1500m title at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. 3000m: 7:37.81i 2022, To catch up with all our reports from Eugene, CLICK HERE, Tags: Jake Wightman, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Oregon22, World Athletics Championships, Want to get involved in a 5km, 10km or 10 mile race across Surrey Hills and have a unique experience under the stars? Ive been watching his races for all his life, since he started as a little kid in primary school and to come through and win a global title here of all places. It is not the first time Wightman has treated runners at a local Parkrun, having also finished first at Bushy Park on 24 December. Wightman was the first British man to win the world 1500m title since Steve Cram in 1983. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Related News & Features. Coach Geoff announced the drama as it unfolded in Oregon and his mother, Susan, was in the crowd. 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Find out more about how we use your information in our privacy policy and cookie policy. 2013 European Junior 1500m 1st3:44.14 1964: Mary Rand #NBCSports #DiamondLeagueMonaco . 800m: 1:44.18 2020 The 28-year-old Wightmans win makes him the first British runner to win the 1,500m in 39 years, when Steve Cram took gold in 1983. Commonwealth Games. Wightman, who is part of the Power of 10 atheltics organisation, was Britain's first runner to win the 1500m since Steve Cram 39 years ago. My mum was in tears, at least someone was crying. Winning 1500m gold at the World Athletics Championships lifts Jake Wightman from nearly man to one of Scotland's greatest athletes. Wightman also won 800m silver at the European Championships and 1500m bronze at the Commonwealth Games. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. 1400m: 1st3:15.59 (13.47) Wightmans previous major victory was nine years earlier when he won the European under-20 title in Rieti. You can change your choices at any time by visiting your privacy controls. 1991: Liz McColgan Jake Wightman . "I'm 28 now - I don't know how many more opportunities I will get to do this and I hope there is a lot more to come. For the 26-year-old who was born in Nottingham, his times are getting faster and faster. As the runner won the race in three minutes and 29.23 seconds narrowly beating Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Spains Mohamed Katir his father, in-stadium commentator Geoff Wightman, was on the mic and narrating his sons victory in real time as he passed Ingebrigtsen with 200m to go. Despite that, bronze at the Commonwealth Games and European Championships in 2018 were his only top-class medals - until now. Jake Wightman's income source is mostly from being a successful . I saw Crammy up in the commentary bit and then it was Seb Coe presenting my medal. Im funny with what I eat on race day as I like to keep it as plain as possible, he told AW. 1963: Dorothy Hyman All eyes were on Great Britains Jake Wightman as he took the gold in the mens 1,500m final but one spectator at this years World Athletics Championships was certainly more delighted than most. So if you dont know much about the runner, here are five things you should know about him: His coach is his dad Geoff, former athlete, and current commentator and stadium announcer. One National senior title. Wightman's victory in Eugene on Tuesday was the biggest of his career and a significant improvement. Athletics offers a huge range sport, in jumps, throws and running. They were all professional athletes, and I was still on placement.. He only came 10th at last year's Olympics and was fifth at the World Championships in Doha. He produced a superb final burst to pass Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen and clinch the title, called home by his father Geoff who was the stadium announcer. 2019 World Championships 1500m 3:31.87 Jake has a great work ethic, a great coach who happens to be his dad, he's resilient, works hard, he's had lots of ups and downs on the way and thoroughly deserves his place on the podium. Laura and Jake have to rank up there as some of the greatest athletes Scotland has ever produced. , Jemma Reekie motivated by improving on Tokyo ahead of 800m in Oregon, Shericka Jackson goes No.2 all time with emphatic world 200m win, Wins in York for Joe Sagar and Georgia Malir, Quick times in Spain, USA and India - overseas results, British runners out in force at cross-country events, Quick times in Spain, USA and India overseas results, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, Boston, USA, World Cross Country Championships, Bathurst, Saucony English National Cross Country Champs. Jake Wightman celebrates with the union jack after running the race of his life. See you on The Mall in95 days! Athletics winners at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 1954: Chris Chataway 1 - Related News & Features. 2014 Commonwealth Games 1500m 8thheat 3:43.87 A shocked Wightman said he didn't think the news would sink. He fared better in 2018 with a Commonwealth bronze in 3:35.97 behind two world champions past and future Elijah Manangoi (3:34.78) and Cheruiyot (3:35.17). A podium finish would have been a major achievement. 2018 European Championships 1500m 3rd3:38.25 Ive sacrificed a lot: the whole of my early 20s doing stuff with friends, the social life Id crave, but it is all worth it for moments like this., Wightman said being congratulated by Cram and Lord Coe after the race made his success feel even more special. Jake Wightman crosses the line ahead of the Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Eighteen years on, as Jake Wightman. Jake is coming off a ches. 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