Renee Regis
British athlete
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Renee Regis (born 2 September 2005) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. She won the 200 metres title at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships.[1]
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| Nationality | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 September 2005 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m: 7.39 (Sheffield, 2023) 100m: 11.18 (London, 2025) 200m: 22.67 (London, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Regis won bronze in the individual 100m and gold in the relay medley at the 2022 European under-18 championships.[2]
She was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel in August 2023.[3] She lowered her personal best over 100m to 11.36s at the event.[4] In the final she won the 100m silver medal in a British one-two with Joy Eze.[5] Eze and Regis were then part of a 4 × 100 m relay team that won silver at the championships.[6]
In July 2024 she won the 200 metres at the English U20 Championships in Birmingham.[7] She was selected for the 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru where she placed sixth in the final.[8][9] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025.[10]
She ran a personal best 11.32 seconds to win the 100 metres at the Loughborough International in May 2025.[11] On 2 August, she finished sixth in the final of the 100 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham in 11.38 seconds.[12] She returned the following day to finish in fifth place in the 200 metres, in a personal best 22.68 seconds.[13] In October 2025, she was retained on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.[14]
On 15 February 2026, Regis won the British national title over 200 metres at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships. On her way to the title, Regis won her semi-final in 22.89 seconds to move to third on the British all-time indoor list.[15] As well as breaking the championship record which had been set by Merlene Ottey running as a guest in 1990, she became the first woman to run below 23 seconds at the championships.[16] At the conclusion of the race, her father John was part of the medal ceremony, which she described as "a nice moment…he didn’t tell me he was doing it".[17]
Regis was named in the British squad for the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana.[18]
Personal life
From London, she is the daughter of British international athletes Jennifer Stoute and John Regis. Her sister Alicia also competes as an athlete. Renee was a keen netball player before concentrating on athletics.[19][20] She studies finance and accounting at Brunel University.[21]