{"id":1040009851,"date":"2026-02-07T19:49:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/?p=1040009851"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:49:37","slug":"divine-iheme-sets-european-under-18-indoor-60m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/news\/divine-iheme-sets-european-under-18-indoor-60m-record-1040009851\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Iheme sets European under-18 indoor 60m record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year-old clocks 6.68 to beat Mark Lewis-Francis's mark at the England Athletics Age Group Champs in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>Divine Iheme, the prodigious young British sprints talent, was one of the stars of the opening day of the England Athletics U20\/17\/15 Indoor Championships in Sheffield on Saturday (Feb 7) when he broke Mark Lewis-Francis' European under-18 record for 60m with 6.68.<\/p>\n<p>Iheme, 16 from Radley AC, won the under-17 men's title on a day that also saw Plymouth's Annabel Fasuba, the daughter of former world indoor champion Olusoji Fasuba, win the under-17 women's title in a championship record of 7.36 despite being just 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Thomas of Dunfermline, meanwhile, broke the Scottish junior record as she won the under-20 women's crown in 7.33.<\/p><div class=\"ad-alignnone\"><div class=\"ad-row\">\n<div id=\"ad-1040000351\" class=\"ad-970x250 adsanity-970x250 alignnone adsanity-alignnone\"\n><div class=\"adsanity-inner\">\n\n<div id=snack-incontent-wide-1 > <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Divine Iheme sprints to a UK U18 and championship best of 6.68, taking two hundredths off Mark Lewis-Francis\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>Live stream: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9iuz5ZnFDH\">https:\/\/t.co\/9iuz5ZnFDH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TJECQuNTbZ\">pic.twitter.com\/TJECQuNTbZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Athletics (@EnglandAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglandAthletic\/status\/2020157185683038256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><div class=\"ad-alignnone\"><div class=\"ad-row\">\n<div id=\"ad-1040000349\" class=\"ad-970x250 adsanity-970x250 alignnone adsanity-alignnone\"\n><div class=\"adsanity-inner\">\n\n<div id=snack-incontent-wide-2> <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year-old clocks 6.68 to beat Mark Lewis-Francis's mark at the England Athletics Age Group Champs in Sheffield. Divine Iheme, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1039990229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_championship":0,"wds_primary_country":0,"wds_primary_sports":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,142],"tags":[],"championship":[],"country":[],"sports":[36942,36933],"class_list":["post-1040009851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-young-athlete-news","sports-60m","sports-indoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040009851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040009851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040009851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039990229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040009851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040009851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040009851"},{"taxonomy":"championship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/championship?post=1040009851"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=1040009851"},{"taxonomy":"sports","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sports?post=1040009851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}