Lucy Tallon
Lucy Tallon is a British sprinter. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in the 200 metres.
Career
Tallon is from Kent and is a member of Tonbridge Athletic Club in Kent. She set a personal best of 23.55 seconds for the 200 metres whilst running at the Bauhaus Junior Gal in Mannheim, Germany, in June 2025. She won the England Athletics U20 Championships title over 200 metres in Birmingham, the following month in July.She was named in the British team for the 200 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. At the championships, she ran the fastest time of all competitors in the heats with 23.65 seconds to qualify for the semi-finals, before lowering her personal best to 23.37 to also win her semi-final. In the final, she won the silver medal behind Judith Bilepo Mokobe of Germany with a time of 23.49, the same time as third-placed Czech Terezie Táborská. Later in the championship she joined fellow-sprint medalist Mabel Akande as well as Kaya Slater and Nell Desir to win the silver medal in the 4x100 metres relay in 43.98 seconds. In October 2025, she was named on the British Athletics Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26. She was nominated for British under-20 female athlete of the year by Athletics Weekly in November 2025.