Renee Regis
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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.
Career
Regis won bronze in the individual 100m and gold in the relay medley at the 2022 European under-18 championships.
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. She lowered her personal best over 100m to 11.36s at the event. In the final she won the 100m silver medal in a British one-two with Joy Eze. Eze and Regis were then part of a 4 × 100 m relay team that won silver at the championships.
In July 2024 she won the 200 metres at the English U20 Championships in Birmingham. She was selected for the 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru where she placed sixth in the final. In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025.
She ran a personal best 11.32 seconds to win the 100 metres at the Loughborough International in May 2025. 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. She returned the following day to finish in fifth place in the 200 metres, in a personal best 22.68 seconds. In October 2025, she was retained on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.
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. 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. 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".
Regis was named in the British squad for the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana.
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. She studies finance and accounting at Brunel University.