.jpg) Hinchliffe (right) at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| National team |  Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (2002-07-18)18 July 2002 (age 22) Sheffield, England[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Employer | ASICS | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Houston Cougars | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Carl Lewis | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personalbest(s) | 100m: 9.95 (Eugene, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Louie Hinchliffe (born 18 July 2002) is a Britishsprinter.[2] On 7 June 2024, he won the 2024NCAA Championships 100 metres title with a time of 9.95 seconds for the University of Houston Cougars. That month, he also won the 100m title at theBritish Athletics Championships. Selected for his first Olympic Games later that month, Hinchliffe was part of the Great Britain team that won bronze in themen's 4 x 100 metre relay in Paris 2024. In 2025, Hinchliffe signed a partnership withASICS.[3]
Hinchliffe is from theSheffield suburb ofCrosspool and is a member ofSheffield and Dearne Athletic Club.[4] He attendedNotre Dame High School and studied business andIT atLancaster University.[5]
He competed for Great Britain in the2021 European Athletics U20 Championships, where he reached the semi-finals of the200 metres.[6][4] He then spent his freshman year competing forWashington State University.[7] He won the English national 100m title in 2022.[8] He lowered his personal best for the 100 metres to 10.23 in April 2023 inWalnut, California.[9] He was selected for the2023 European Athletics U23 Championships inEspoo.[10]
After transferring to theUniversity of Houston, he began being coached byCarl Lewis. In May 2024 he lowered his wind-legalpersonal best to 10.00 inFayetteville, Arkansas and then ran a wind-assisted 100 metres in 9.84 seconds to qualify for the 2024NCAA Championship finals.[11] Competing at the2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships inEugene, Oregon he won the 100 metres title with a run of 9.95 seconds.[12] He became the first European to win the title and placed him as the sixth fastest Briton of-all-time.[13]
On 29 June 2024, he won the 100 metres title at the2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester, his first national title, and the first sprinter to win the NCAA Division 1 and British titles in the same season.[14]
On 5 July 2024, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the2024 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres as well as being included in the 4x100 metres relay squad.[15] Hinchliffe went out in the 100 metres semi-finals at the Games in Paris despite breaking ten seconds twice, but ended the event as the highest ranked British athlete.[16] Days later, he ran the final as Great Britain won a bronze medal in the 4x100 metres relay, his first senior medal.[17]
His father Stuart is fromRotherham and his mother Leilana is from thePhilippines.[18] He was a successful junior golfer, playing from a single-figure handicap. He has a sister who has also competed in athletics, as a hurdler.[19][20]
