Eugene Amo-Dadzie: 'World's fastest accountant' stuns athletics with sub 10-second 100m
Eugene Amo-Dadzie competed against Olympic 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy at the European Indoor Championships in March, but did not qualify for the final
Not bad for a full-time accountant with no sponsors or funding. "If you know anyone at Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Puma, Asics or anywhere else then send them my way," he jokes.Fastest European time of the season so farReece Prescod is the only other Briton under 10 seconds this year His plans to join the athletics team while studying at the University of Nottingham disintegrated amid the distractions of student life. "Let's just say track and field quickly fell down my list of priorities," he says, with a laugh.
A first British vest arrived this March at the European Indoor Championships, where he reached the 60m semi-finals, but few outside his immediate circle had any inkling of what was to come in Graz last Friday evening, where he blitzed the field in almost entirely windless conditions. But Amo-Dadzie says criticism does not faze him, welcoming the chance to be added to the rigorous whereabouts anti-doping system reserved for the highest rank of elite athlete.
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