Meet Eugene Amo-Dadzie – “The world’s fastest accountant”

AW travels to Lee Valley to catch up with the 30-year-old after his incredible 9.93 run in Austria

With a laptop placed on his lap, Eugene Amo-Dadzie is busy working away at his day job, as a full-time chartered accountant.

Not from his office desk in a city skyscraper but the 60m track at Lee Valley Sports Centre.

He’s been allowed to work from home – AKA his training facilities – and has his briefcase stored next to the acupuncture table.

Amo-Dadzie is used to balancing up his full-time job as a senior management accountant for a subsidiary of Berkeley Group, with his sprinting ambitions.

The 30-year-old, who only started running seriously four years ago, created waves of attention over the weekend when he clocked 9.93 (0.1) to go joint-fourth on the UK all-time list. That time was also the joint-sixth fastest by a Brit in history. Only 10 British men have gone sub-10 seconds over the 100m. Amo-Dadzie is the 11th.

“I just want to have a dust up. Let’s go to war and see who comes out on top.”

After his 9.93 run in Austria, @TrackDadzie, who is a full-time accountant, is full of belief as he prepares for the British Trials on July 8-9 🇬🇧

The target is now @wabudapest23 ✈️

🎙️ @TimAdams76 pic.twitter.com/OKvUgmTnMs

— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) June 19, 2023

It hadn’t come out of nowhere. AW spoke to Amo-Dadzie at the European Indoor Championships back in March after he was knocked at the semi-final stage. The fact that Amo-Dadzie, representing Great Britain in his first ever major championships, was up against Olympic 100m champion Marcell Lamont Jacobs, proved how far he’d come.

His 9.93 clocking in Graz Austria, however, was a step up again. The wind was pretty much dead and you wonder how close Amo-Dadzie would’ve got to Linford Christie’s British record of 9.87 if there was a perfect legal tailwind.

To put the longevity into context, Amo-Dadzie wasn’t even a one-year-old when Christie set that time.

The full-time accountant is now in touching reach of that historic mark and it’s now about being consistent ahead of the UK Athletics Championships (July 8-9).

“I know we’re in a sport that judges you on how high you jump, how far you can throw or what the clock stops at when you cross that line,” Amo-Dadzie tells AW. “For me, however, I’m process oriented. I don’t get drawn into the hypotheticals. If it happens, it happens.

“Do I believe I can break the British [100m] record?…