Brodie Young (athlete)
British athlete (born 2003)
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Brodie Young (born 28 February 2003) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2025, he became Scottish indoor record holder over 400 metres.[1]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 28 February 2003 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | 400 metres |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 400m: 45.34 (Bergen, 2025) |
Medal record | |
Early life
Young is from Chryston, in Scotland. In 2022, he started the first year of a four-year scholarship at the University of New Mexico.[2]
Career
A member of the Airdrie Harriers, Young won back-to-back Scottish Senior Championship gold medals in the 400 metres in 2021 and 2022.[3] He was a member of the gold medal winning 4 × 400 m team at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn in 2021.[4] He represented Great Britain at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, in August 2022.[3]
He ran a personal best time of 45.82 time for the 400 metres in Clovis, California in 2023.[2] He was selected for the British team for the European Team Games in Silesia in June 2023.[5] He was a member of the bronze medal winning 4 × 400 m team at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo in 2023, and ran in the 400 metres individual race.[6]
In April 2024, he was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.[7] He ran at the championships as the British mixed 4 × 400 m team qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[8]
In February 2025, he ran a time of 45.96 for an indoor 400m run in Albuquerque to best the 400m Scottish Indoor Record set by Brian Whittle who had run 45.98 in Hungary in 1988.[9] He lowered it again the following week at the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque. His time of 45.66 lower by 0.3s from the record he set the previous week.[10]
He ran a 45.34 seconds personal best to win the bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway.[11] In October 2025, he was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.[12]