Louie Hinchliffe is fast becoming one of the biggest names on Team GB 2024, but he says that he owes his success to the encouragement of his parents.
Here’s everything we know about Louie’s parents and his all-star coach.
Louie’s dad, Stuart, is from Rotherham in South Yorkshire.
Sports is definitely something that runs in the family, as Stuart was a goalkeeper for Leyton Orient FC.
Leton Orient FC compete in EFL League One, which is the third level of the English football league.
He encouraged Louie to focus on athletics instead of other types of sport.
When Louie was scouted by Manchester City academy, his father continued to encourage him to choose athletics.
Louie’s mother, Leilani, is from the Philippines and had Louie in 2002.
She is a big supporter of her son’s career and is very proud of him, particularly when it comes to his training with sporting legend Carl Lewis.
She told Sky News: “It wouldn’t be Louie without Carl”.
Louie is proud of his Filipino heritage and hopes to use his new stardom to bring about greater representation for Filipino athletes.
Having won several major titles so early in his career, Louie is well on his way to matching the sports stardom of childhood heroes like Wayne Rooney and Jesse Owens.
In 2024, he has won the 100m title at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester as well as the 100m NCAA 100 metres title in Oregon.
His NCAA performance made him the first European to win the title and the six fastest Briton of all time.
Louie is a member of the 2024 incarnation of Team GB and will be competing in the 2024 Olympic games.
Louie ended 2023 with a personal best of 10.17s, which is already a massive achievement for such a young athlete.
He didn’t stop there, though, as he smashed that record again the following year.
In May 2024, he lowered his wind-legal personal best to 10.00s. Later that year, lowered his wind-assisted time to 9.84s.
WHAT TO WATCH TODAY...
TODAY’S BRIT MEDAL HOPES
Water takes centre stage on Day 6 as Joe Clarke eyes canoe slalom kayak gold (4.30pm).
In the rowing, the women’s four should claim gold while the men’s four and women’s double sculls will know they can get on the podium, too (10.15am).
And after our men won the 4x200m freestyle relay, the women could add a medal in the pool tonight (8.48pm).
BRITS TO WATCH
Defending champ Beth Shriever and Tokyo silver medallist Kye Whyte begin their BMX racing event at the quarter-finals (from 7pm).
Bryony Pitman (9am), Penny Healey (4.14pm) and Alex Wise (5.05pm) are all in archery action.
Andy Murray’s swansong with Dan Evans continues – they face Americans Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul in the quarter-finals (3.30pm).
And the golf starts today, meaning Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick will tee off for GB, with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry flying the flag for Ireland (from 8am).
GLOBAL STARS TODAY
World No1 Scottie Scheffler leads an all-star USA golf team, though, alongside Open champ Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark.
French Open champ Iga Swiatek is the heavy favourite for the women’s tennis singles gold ahead of her semi-final before Carlos Alcaraz then Novak Djokovic go in the men’s quarters (from 11am).
FANCY SOMETHING DIFFERENT?
Volleyball is an ever-present throughout the Olympics, running from Day 1 all the way to Day 16, all of it in the catchy-named South Paris Arena 1.
Tokyo runners-up Brazil face Japan (12pm) and hosts France vs China (8pm) in the pick of the clashes.
STATS MAD
3:50 – Who doesn’t love a competitive brisk walk?
The athletics officially begins with the men’s and women’s 20km race walks today (6.30am and 8.20am).
The world record is a staggering 1:16.36 – that’s an average of 3m50s per km while WALKING.
Follow all the action as it unfolds with our Paris 2024 Olympics LIVE blog.
