From 9-5 to 9.9: World's fastest accountant signs professional contract with Nike

From 9-5 to 9.9: World's fastest accountant signs professional contract with Nike

Funmilayo Fameso 17:13 - 08.03.2024

The world's fastest accountant Eugene Amo-Dadzie is officially a Nike athlete. Get to know more about the Ghanaian-born British speedster.

Eugene Amo-Dadzie known as the world's fastest accountant, has officially signed a professional contract with sports manufacturing company Nike.

An elated Amo-Dadzie announced this on his Instagram page with the caption:

"Worlds Fastest Accountant X @nike 📑 ✍🏿

DELIGHTED to have signed a professional contract with the juggernaut that is #Nike❗️," he wrote.

Who is Eugene Amo-Dadzie?

Born of Ghanaian origin but representing Great Britain, Amo-Dadzie started sprinting as a 26-year-old, little did he know he would become one of Europe's and the world's fastest men in history.

He blazed to a blistering Personal Best (PB) of 9.93s (0.1) to win the men's 100m at the Horst Mandl Memorial in Graz, breaking the 10-second barrier and making him the fourth-fastest in British history.

Eugene Amo-Dadzie after clocking sub-10s of 9.93s in Austria

Then in February 2023, he was a 60m bronze medallist at the 2023 British National Indoor Championships, which earned him his first team selection to the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he got to the semifinals.

Amo-Dadzie represented Great Britain at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest to make his world championship debut at the age of 31, where he reached the semi-finals of the 100 meters. Later that year he was granted UK Sport’s national lottery-funded world-class programme for the first time.

Amo-Dadzie as a Chattered Accountant

The British speedster is a Chartered Accountant by profession with over ten years of experience as a finance and accounting professional across both industry and practice.

 He only officially started sprinting in 2019, and calls himself "the fastest accountant in the world".

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