Filip Toul | |
Nationality: | Czech |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Middle distance |
Birth Date: | 2 August 2007 |
Pb: | 800m: 1:48.71 (2024) 1500m: 3:40.98 (2024) NU18R 3000m: 8:09.11 (2024) NU18R |
Filip Toul (born 2 August 2007) is a Czech middle distance runner. He is the Czech national under-18 record holder over 1500 metres and 3000 metres.[1]
He is a member of SK Čtyři Dvory, where his coaches include Pavel Suchý and Pavel Brlica.[2]
In May 2024 in Domažlice he ran a new Czech junior national record for the 1500 metres, improving Jakub Davidík's five-year-old record by four tenths to 3:45.92.[3]
In June 2024, he ran 3:40.98 for the 1500 metres at the age of 16 years-old, which placed him as the third fastest European U18 in history behind Niels Laros and Jakob Ingebrigtsen.[4] [5] That month, he won the Czech U18 title over 800 metres in Ostrava.[6]
He won gold in the 1500 metres at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica.[7]
He finished third in the Czech junior cross country championships in November 2024.[8] He was subsequently selected for the European Cross Country Championships in December 2024.[9]