MEET the accountant specialising in DASH-FLOW management – as Europe’s fastest man just five years after taking up sprinting aged 26.
Eugene Amo-Dadzie has made the quickest gains ever after finding unexpected assets as an athlete.
The Brit is fast-tracking dreams of the Paris 2024 Olympics following his astonishing feat last week in clocking 9.93seconds for the 100metres.
The finance manager, 30, was just 0.06secs off Linford Christie’s 30-year-old national record with that sensational performance in Graz, Austria.
And world-class athletics is so new to him he was THRILLED to be visited by anti-doping officials afterwards as it “validated” his achievement.
Amo-Dadzie told the BBC how a friend’s chance comment in 2018 transformed his life as they came across a race meet after playing football.
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As they watched the 100m, his pal said: “You could put a pair of spikes on and beat these guys. Why haven’t you tried this properly before?”
He joined Woodford Green Athletics Club and inside 12 months reached the British Championships semi-finals, encountering Olympians Adam Gemili and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey.
He won bronze over 60m at this year’s British National Indoor Championships.
And his electric efforts in Austria mean he should make Britain’s team for the World Championships in August.
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Rather than regretting not taking up sprinting seriously as a kid, Amo-Dadzie believes he’s better off with his late arrival into the sport.
He said: “I feel like I came into the sport at the right time.
“The head that I had on my shoulders at that time has allowed me to navigate this thing in a sensible way.
“I very much enjoy that I have a different story. I still refer to myself as an accountant that happens to operate in the world of track and field.”
To reach the Olympics from such a background might seem like unchartered territory – except of course he’s a chartered accountant!
Source: Athletics - thesun.co.uk
