Georgina Forde-Wells: Northampton’s Triple Jump Champion on the Rise
There is a certain kind of athlete who makes you want to look up from your phone at a track meet, not because someone told you to but because something in the way they move demands it. Georgina Forde-Wells — known to friends, coaches, and fans simply as Georgie — is that kind of athlete. In just a few short years at the senior level, she has gone from a relative unknown in the triple jump pit to British champion, European team representative, two-time British Indoor champion, and a competitor at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships. She is 23 years old. The story is just getting started.
Background: Born and Raised in Northampton
Georgina Forde-Wells was born on 14 November 2002 in Northampton, the county town of Northamptonshire in the English East Midlands. It is a town with a modest athletics tradition but a strong community spirit, and it would prove a fine backdrop for an athlete of her eclectic gifts to develop. She attended Northampton High School, an independent girls’ school with a reputation for nurturing well-rounded young women, and it was there that the first outlines of a remarkable multi-sport career began to take shape.
As a youngster, Forde-Wells was not simply a promising runner or jumper — she was an athlete in the broadest sense of the word. She was a county gymnastics champion, an English Schools high-jump champion, and an international-level netballer. That combination of spring, coordination, and competitive intelligence would prove invaluable when she eventually found her way to the triple jump runway, but it also tells you something important about the kind of person she is: someone who throws herself into things fully and tends to excel wherever she turns her attention.
She also shared her gifts with others from an early stage. Many young athletes in the Northampton area will have come across her as a coach on the popular Startrack holiday athletics courses — a grassroots programme that introduces children to track and field during school holidays. The fact that she was coaching while simultaneously developing her own competitive career says something about her generosity and her relationship with the sport itself.
Club Development: Rugby and Northampton AC
Forde-Wells began her competitive athletics career with Rugby and Northampton Athletics Club, one of the more active clubs in the East Midlands region. It was there that her earliest triple jump marks were logged and where she began working with coaches who saw the potential in her explosive, gymnast’s approach to take-off and landing.
In 2019, still in the under-17 age group, she reached the final of the English Schools Championships in the triple jump, finishing fourth. It was a result that signalled she was competing at the front of the national conversation for her age group, and one that offered a preview of things to come. Fourth place at English Schools is not a headline, but the jump that got her there was a statement.
In 2020 — a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted the athletics calendar — she made the most of what competition was available. At the England Under-20 Indoor Championships, she jumped 12.43 metres to win the bronze medal, a personal best at the time and a mark that showed she was developing on a strong trajectory heading into the senior ranks.
The Move to Loughborough and Woodford Green
Like many of Britain’s most talented track and field athletes, Forde-Wells found her way to Loughborough University, widely regarded as the premier institution for elite sport in the United Kingdom. Loughborough’s athletics environment — with its world-class facilities, deep coaching expertise, and a campus culture built around high performance — provides a development pathway that few universities in the world can match. She enrolled there and has competed for the university’s teams while simultaneously representing Woodford Green and Essex Ladies on the national circuit, one of the most storied women’s athletics clubs in England.
The move to Loughborough also connected her with the coaching infrastructure that would accelerate her development. Her coach, Lukasz Zawila, is listed on all her British Athletics team announcements and has clearly played a central role in her technical and physical growth through some of the most productive years of her career to date.
Breakthrough: The 2023 British Indoor Title and Outdoor Championship
The year 2023 was the one that put Georgina Forde-Wells firmly on the map of British athletics. In February, she won the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Indoor Championships triple jump — a title that confirmed she was the best collegiate triple jumper in the country and drew wider attention to what she had been quietly building.
That same spring, she was selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships, held in Chorzów, Poland in June. It was her first senior international vest, and she competed in the triple jump, finishing 15th in the competition. The placement was not the story — the selection itself was. At 20 years old, competing in the triple jump discipline for which she had been training seriously for only about four years, she was already wearing the red, white, and blue of Team GB at a senior European championship. The learning experience of that international stage would prove invaluable.
Then came the moment that put her name in the headlines of British athletics media. At the 2023 UK Athletics Championships in Manchester in July, Forde-Wells delivered the jump of her young career — a massive 13.56 metres in the final, an improvement of 16 centimetres over the runner-up, Windsor AC’s Temi Ojora (13.40m), with Harrow AC’s Adelaide Omitowoju third at 13.10m. The jump placed her 15th on the all-time UK rankings for the women’s triple jump and won her the national title at just 20 years of age, in an event she had been competing in at the senior level for a handful of years.
Loughborough University celebrated her achievement with justified pride. British Athletics officially celebrated the breakthrough of one of the sport’s more compelling young talents. Back in Northampton, her hometown paper ran the story under its sports section, honouring a local girl who had just become a British champion. For the Northampton Chronicle, it was a community story. For the athletics world, it was a talent announcement.
2024: Developing the Broader Profile
The 2024 season saw Forde-Wells continuing to compete and add marks to her long-term progression. She also demonstrated her versatility by recording a personal best in the long jump of 6.03 metres in May 2024, underlining her capacity in the horizontal jumps more broadly. That long jump mark would later be surpassed, but at the time it confirmed she was developing the full physical toolkit that top-level triple jumpers require.
The indoor season of 2024–25 saw further development, and by the time the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships came around, she was firmly established as the leading British woman in the event.
2025: A Year of Milestones and a New Personal Best
February 2025 brought Forde-Wells to Birmingham for the 2025 Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships. She won the triple jump title, becoming British Indoor Champion for the first time and adding an indoor national title to complement her outdoor one from 2023. British Athletics reported the result with a description of the competition as one featuring both a championship and world record in other events — good company in which to claim a national title.
In June 2025, she was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad for the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid. Her coach, Lukasz Zawila, was listed alongside her name in the team announcement, a sign of the continuity and trust that had built up between athlete and coach. In Madrid, she competed in the triple jump and placed tenth overall with a jump of 13.26 metres — a competitive showing in a quality European field, and another international experience banked.
But the most significant single performance of the season came at the Alexandrino Meeting — Georgios Pantos Memorial, a track and field meeting held in Alexandria, Greece on 7 June 2025. There, Forde-Wells jumped 13.98 metres, a new personal best by a significant margin and a mark that placed her among the serious contenders in European women’s triple jump. That jump — 42 centimetres further than her previous best — put her at World Athletics Score of 1115 and moved her into the top echelon of active British women in the event. It remains her personal best as of the time of writing.
She was also named to the British team for the 2025 FISU World University Games in Germany that summer, representing her country at university level on the international stage — one of the few occasions in athletics where the FISU Games provide a major competitive opportunity outside the senior championship cycle.
2025–26 Indoor Season: Two More Titles and the World Stage
The indoor season of 2025–26 was perhaps the most significant period of Forde-Wells’s career to date, at least in terms of the platform on which she performed.
At the start of the season, she was already in strong form, recording a new long jump personal best of 6.34 metres at the Loughborough University Indoor Track on 11 January 2026 — a mark that pushed her World Athletics ranking in the long jump significantly upward as well. The versatility she has shown in the long jump alongside the triple jump marks her as an athlete with a genuinely broad physical profile.
At the 2026 Novuna UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham on 14–15 February 2026, Forde-Wells successfully defended her British Indoor triple jump title, jumping 13.53 metres to retain the gold medal ahead of a competitive field that included Adelaide Omitowoju once again. Two-time British Indoor champion — a status that very few athletes her age in any event can claim.
That performance secured her selection to the GB and NI team for the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in ToruÅ„, Poland — her first World Championships at any level. She was listed as the sole British representative in the women’s triple jump at the event, coached by Lukasz Zawila. The women’s triple jump was held on 21 March 2026, on the short track of the Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena ToruÅ„. It was an extremely deep field, with the gold medal going to Cuba’s Leyanis Pérez Hernández at 14.95 metres — well above the level of the current world top — but making the World Indoors team at 23, with years of development still ahead, is a significant career milestone by any measure. Simply qualifying and competing on that stage represents a meaningful step forward for an athlete who only seriously took up the triple jump around 2019.
Her current World Athletics ranking stands at #61 in the world in the triple jump — a mark that reflects real global competitive standing, not merely domestic dominance.
Athletic Profile and Style
Forde-Wells is a triple jumper whose background in gymnastics and the high jump gives her an unusually clean technical profile. Triple jumping rewards exactly the qualities a gymnastics background instils — body control in the air, precise take-off mechanics, and the ability to absorb and redirect forces efficiently through each phase of the hop, step, and jump sequence. Her high jump experience adds to this a strong understanding of take-off angle and vertical component, and her netball background speaks to the court-sport instincts — agility, reaction time, athletic intelligence — that carry across to so many track and field disciplines.
She competes for Woodford Green and Essex Ladies in domestic competition and trains at Loughborough under Lukasz Zawila. Her coach’s name appears consistently in every British Athletics team announcement, a quiet but significant signal of a stable, productive relationship between athlete and support team.
Her personal bests as of April 2026 stand at 13.98 metres in the triple jump outdoors (Alexandria, Greece, 7 June 2025), 13.53 metres in the triple jump indoors (Birmingham, 15 February 2026), and 6.34 metres in the long jump indoors (Loughborough, 11 January 2026).
Coaching and Community
It is worth noting that Forde-Wells has not simply been a taker from the sport. Her work as a coach on Startrack holiday athletics courses in the Northampton area predates her senior international career, and it speaks to an athlete who genuinely values the community dimension of athletics. The sport gave her a great deal early on — gymnastic foundations, a high jump title, a pathway to university — and she has been passing some of that along to younger athletes in her hometown. That combination of competitive ambition and community-mindedness is, frankly, one of the more appealing aspects of her story.
Social Media and Public Presence
Forde-Wells maintains a presence on social media under the handle @georginalfw on X (formerly Twitter), though the account has not been actively used. She also has a TikTok account under @georgiefordewells. The relative modesty of her public social media footprint is perhaps a reflection of the fact that she has been, for most of her athletic career, focused primarily on competing and developing — the results have been louder than any social channel could be.
Sponsorships
No individual commercial sponsorship arrangements for Georgina Forde-Wells were publicly documented at the time of this writing, which is consistent with her current stage of development. SportsAid Eastern — the regional arm of the UK’s principal charity supporting talented young sports performers — has recognised her at various stages of her career, providing support funding that helps bridge the gap between grassroots development and full professional status. As her marks and profile continue to grow, formal commercial partnerships would be a natural next step.
Looking Ahead
In the wider context of British women’s triple jumping, Forde-Wells now sits clearly at the top of the current domestic rankings, with a personal best that continues to improve season by season. The 2026 outdoor season, her next major campaign, will be watched closely to see whether she can push her personal best toward the 14-metre barrier — a threshold that would put her firmly in contention at a European Championships and bring her into range for senior global finals.
She is 23 years old, competing at World Championships, improving her personal best by significant margins in key competitions, and doing so while training at Loughborough — arguably the best athletics university environment in Britain. The conditions are right. The work is clearly being done. And there is something about the trajectory of an athlete who was a county gymnastics champion, an English Schools high jump winner, an international netballer, and a holiday athletics coach before she became a British triple jump champion that suggests we are dealing with someone whose story has a long way still to run.
Keep an eye on the triple jump runway this summer. Georgie Forde-Wells has given every indication that she intends to make it very interesting indeed.
Personal bests (as of April 2026): Triple Jump — 13.98m (Alexandria, Greece, 7 June 2025); Triple Jump indoor — 13.53m (Birmingham, 15 February 2026); Long Jump indoor — 6.34m (Loughborough, 11 January 2026). Club: Woodford Green and Essex Ladies. Coach: Lukasz Zawila. University: Loughborough. World ranking: #61 (triple jump). Born: 14 November 2002, Northampton, England.
