Lewis Church
British athlete (born 1996)
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Lewis Church (born 27 September 1996) is a British multi-event athlete. He has won British national titles in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon.[1]
Career
Church won the senior heptathlon title at the 2022 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, with a tally of 5488 points.[2]
He won the heptathlon again at the UK Indoor Combined Events Championships in Birmingham in February 2023, retaining his title with a score of 5529 points.[3] He won the decathlon at the England Athletics Senior Open Championships in July 2023 with 7660 points in Chelmsford.[4][5] In October 2023, he set the British record in the speed decathlon with 7189 points in Basingstoke.[6]
He was runner-up to Sam Talbot at the UK Indoor Combined Events Championship in Sheffield in January 2024,[7] but won the title the following year with 5778 points, 70 ahead of Sammy Ball.[8][9]
He won the Multistars decathlon in Italy in April 2025 with a score of 8067 points.[10][11] He finished thirteenth in the decathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, in 2025 with a new personal best tally of 8093 points.[12][13] He finished thirteenth overall in the season-long World Athletics Combined Events Tour for 2025.[14]
On 18 January 2026, Church retained his heptathlon title at the England Athletics Senior Indoor Combined Event Championships, with a tally of 5767 points.[15] Church was a finalist in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 14 February 2026.[16] He was provisionally named in the British squad for the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.[17][18]