Success Eduan

Success Eduan

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	Success Odyase Eduan (2004-09-27) 27 September 2004 (age 22)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m: 11.39 (2023) 200 m: 22.43 (2026)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain World Ultimate Championship 2026 Budapest Mixed 4 × 100 m relay World Relays 2025 Guangzhou 4 × 100 m relay European Championships 2026 Birmingham 4 × 100 m relay European U23 Championships 2025 Bergen 200 m 2025 Bergen 4 × 100 m relay European U20 Championships 2021 Tallinn 200 m 2023 Jerusalem 200 m 2021 Tallinn 4 × 100 m 2023 Jerusalem 4 × 100 m

Success Odyase Eduan (born 27 September 2004) is a British sprinter. She won the 2026 UK Athletics Championships title and 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships title over 200 metres.

Early life

From Blackley, Manchester, she attended St Matthew's Roman Catholic High School in Moston, Manchester, where she was head girl. Her athletic talent was spotted early at the school whilst running cross-country. She later attended Loreto College, Manchester. She combined her athletics career with studying midwifery at the University of Salford even as she became British champion.

Career

Eduan won a gold medal and a bronze medal at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia in July 2021. She won bronze in the 200 m and gold after anchoring the victorious women's 4 × 100 m relay. In 2022, Eduan won the national U20 title over 200 metres, and was selected to represent Britain at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships.

In February 2023, Eduan won at the British Indoor Championships in Birmingham over 200 metres with a time of 23.49 seconds. In August 2023, she won bronze at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem in the 200 metres. She was then part of a 4 × 100 m relay team that won silver at the championships.

In May 2024, Eduan finished runner-up to Joy Eze at the British Universities and Colleges Sport Championships (BUCS) in the 100 metres, running a time of 11.52 seconds, while competing for Salford University. In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. Eduan ran the anchor leg for the Great Britain team which won gold in the women's 4 × 100 metres at the World Athletics Relays Championship on 11 May 2025. She won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway in 22.74 seconds. Later in the championships, she anchored the British women's 4 × 100 metres relay team to gold in a championship record time of 42.92 seconds.

Eduan finished in fourth place in the 200 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham, in a personal best 22.53 seconds. She was selected for the British relay pool at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. In October 2025, she was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.

Eduan was named in the British squad for the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana. She anchored the women's 4 × 100 metres as Great Britain secured qualification for the 2027 World Championships. In June 2026, she won the 200 m title at the UK Championships in a personal best of 22.43 seconds. Competing at the 2026 London Athletics Meet on 18 July, she ran the 200 m in 22.53 seconds. She was a finalist in the 200 metres at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, placing seventh overall. Later at the Games, she also competed in the women's 4 × 100 m relay. On 15 August, Eduan won the gold medal with the British women's 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, with the quartet of Dina Asher-Smith, Amy Hunt, Eduan and Imani-Lara Lansiquot finishing more than a second clear of the field in 42.05 seconds. She was also a finalist in the 200 metres at the championships. At the 2026 Diamond League Final in Brussels in September, she placed seventh in the 200 metres. The following weekend, she was part of the Great Britain mixed 4 × 100 metres relay team which placed third at the inaugural World Ultimate Championship in Budapest. In October 2026, she moved up to podium potential in the 2026-27 Olympic World Class Programme awarded by UK Athletics. Eduan was nominated as part of the Great Britain 4x100m relay team alongside Asher-Smith, Hunt and Lansiquot for Team of the Year by The Sunday Times at the Sportswoman of the Year Awards.

Athletics achievements

International competitions

Representing  Great Britain &  England

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time
2021	European U20 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	3rd	200 m	23.62
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	44.62
2022	World U20 Championships	Cali, Colombia	12th (sf)	200 m	23.56
2023	European U20 Championships	Jerusalem, Israel	3rd	200 m	23.34
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	43.82
2025	World Relays	Guangzhou, China	1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.21
	European U23 Championships	Bergen, Norway	1st	200 m	22.74
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.92
	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	4th	4 × 100 m relay	42.07
2026	World Relays	Gaborone, Botswana	—	4 × 100 m relay	DQ (Re)
			2nd		42.90 (WQ)
	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	7th	200 m	23.04
			5th	4 × 100 m relay	43.45
	European Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	6th	200 m	22.66
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.05
	World Ultimate Championship	Budapest, Hungary	13th (h)	200 m	22.93

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