{"id":471,"date":"2025-08-12T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/?p=471"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:47:52","slug":"british-sprinter-reece-prescod-retires-from-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/sports\/british-sprinter-reece-prescod-retires-from-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"British sprinter Reece Prescod retires from athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">British sprinter Reece Prescod has announced his decision to retire from athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The 29-year-old quit the sport after a decade as a professional athlete, participating in three World Championships and one Olympic Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The Londoner is the fourth fastest British man ever over 100m, with a personal best of 9.93 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">He won a silver medal in the 100m at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, and also a bronze in the 4x100m relay at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Prescod reached the semi-finals of the 100m at Tokyo 2020 in his only appearance at an Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">On an Instagram post, he wrote &#8220;Athletics has taught me invaluable lessons, the true meaning of hard work, dedication, and discipline,&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I have been fortunate enough to travel the world, compete at the highest level, and represent my country with pride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I look forward to contributing to sport and performance in new, meaningful ways, inspiring others to chase their potential with the same passion that drove me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British sprinter Reece Prescod has announced his decision to retire from athletics. The 29-year-old quit the sport after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funsahara.co.uk\/activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}