{{Short description|Australian athlete (born 2002)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Reece Holder | image = | caption = | nationality = Australian/English | birth_date = {{birth date and age|2002|8|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = England,<ref name="athletics.com.au 2023"/> Great Britain<ref name="Paris 2024" /> | hometown = Queensland, Australia | height = 1.85 m<ref name="Paris 2024" /> | weight = | sport = Athletics | event = Sprint | pb = '''400m:''' 44.53 (Paris, 2024)| | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's athletics}} {{Medal|Country|{{flagu|Australia}}}} {{Medal|Competition|World Relays}} {{Medal|Silver|2025 Guangzhou|Mixed 4×400 m relay}} {{Medal|Bronze|2026 Gaborone|4×400 m relay}} {{Medal|Competition|Summer World University Games}} {{Medal|Silver|2021 Chengdu|400 m}} }}
'''Reece Holder''' (born 20 August 2002) is an Australian sprinter. In 2026, he won the Australian Athletics Championships in the 400 metres.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reece Holder |website=World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/reece-holder-14820122 |accessdate=23 July 2024}}</ref>
==Biography== From Wellington Point, Queensland, he is a member of Thompson Estate Athletics Club. At the age of 15 years-old, Holder won the national under-17 400 metres title.<ref>{{cite web |title=Track Star Who Trained in Carina Secures Olympic Qualifier in World-Class Performance |date=15 July 2024 |accessdate=23 July 2024 |url=https://carindalenews.com.au/index.php/track-star-who-trained-in-carina-secures-olympic-qualifier-in-world-class-performance/}}</ref>
He ran a 400 metres personal best of 44.79 in Chengdu in August 2023, to win a silver medal at the delayed 2021 Summer World University Games.<ref>{{cite web |title=Championship and national records fall at World University Games |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/report/world-university-games-chengdu-2023 |date=6 August 2023 |accessdate=23 July 2024 |website=World Athletics}}</ref> This time placed him into the top-5 all time Australian 400m runners.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://runnerstribe.com/latest-news/reece-holder-runs-44-79-400m-knocks-batman-out-of-top-10-australian-list/ |website=Runners Tribe |accessdate=23 July 2024 |title=Reece Holder Runs 44.79 400m, Knocks Batman Out of Top-10 Australian List |date=4 August 2023}}</ref>
He was selected for the Australian team to run the individual 400 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/australia-take-second-largest-ever-team-to-paris-olympics-1039989310/ |website=Athletics Weekly |accessdate=8 July 2024 |date=8 July 2024 |title=Australia take second largest ever team to Paris Olympics |first=Tim |last=Adams}}</ref> There, in the qualification heat of the 400 metres event he ran a personal best time of 44.53 and in his semifinal finished in fifth place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5841/men-s-400m-results-paris-olympic-games-2024-athletics#google_vignette |date=7 August 2024 |accessdate=29 August 2024 |website=Watch Athletics |title=Men's 400m Hurdles Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics}}</ref><ref name="Paris 2024">{{cite web |title=HOLDER Reece |url=https://www.olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/reece-holder_1939847 |work=Paris 2024 Olympics |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823153200/https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/reece-holder_1939847 |archive-date=23 August 2024}}</ref>
He was a member of the Australian team in the Mixed 4x400m relay at the 2025 World Athletics Relays which set a new Oceania record of 3:12.34, taking nearly five seconds off the previous best mark set in 2021, and became the first Mixed team in Australian history to qualify for a major championships, qualifying on the first day of the competition for the 2025 World Championships. Australia went on to win the silver medal in the final of the event on the second day of the competition as Holder transferred across to help qualify the men's 4x400m relay for the 2025 World Championships in the second round of qualifying.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/12/australia-mixed-4x400m-silver-world-athletics-relay-championships |website=The Guardian |accessdate=12 May 2025 |title=Mixed 4x400m silver caps successful world relay championships for Australia |date=12 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.athletics.com.au/news/australian-mixed-4x400m-relay-team-punch-tickets-to-tokyo-with-oceania-record/ |website=Athletics.com.au |accessdate=10 May 2025 |title=AUSTRALIAN MIXED 4X400M RELAY TEAM PUNCH TICKETS TO TOKYO WITH OCEANIA RECORD}}</ref> He won at the Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo, Japan, running the 400m in 44.76 seconds on 18 May 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 May 2025 |title=Kitaguchi delivers while Australians excel in Tokyo |url=https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/news/kitaguchi-marshall-mahuchikh-griffith-golden-grand-prix-tokyo |access-date=19 May 2025 |website=World Athletics}}</ref>
He was selected for the Australian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, running a season's best 44.54 seconds to qualify for the 400m semi-finals, before placing third in his semi-final in 44.63 seconds.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7190593?eventId=10229631 |date=14 Sep 2025|website=World Athletics|accessdate=14 September 2025|title= World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.athletics.com.au/news/green-and-gold-to-shine-in-tokyo-with-largest-athletics-team-yet/ |title= GREEN AND GOLD TO SHINE IN TOKYO WITH LARGEST ATHLETICS TEAM YET |website=Athletics.com.au|accessdate=3 September 2025|date=3 September 2025}}</ref> He also ran in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay in which the Australian team ran a national record before being disqualified for an illegal handover.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7190593?eventId=204595 |website=World Athletics|accessdate=23 September 2025|title= World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025|date=13 Sep 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://7news.com.au/sport/athletics/heartbreak-as-aussie-4x400m-mens-relay-team-disqualified-after-smashing-national-record-c-20092432.amp|website=7news|accessdate=23 Sep 2025|title= Heartbreak as Aussie 4x400m men's relay team disqualified after smashing national record|date=21 Sep 2025}}</ref>
On 11 April 2026, Holder ran 45.11 seconds to win the 400 m at the 2026 Australian Championships.<ref>{{cite web|title=SUB-10 AGAIN IN KENNEDY’S IN CROWNING MOMENT AT AUSTRALIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS |accessdate=11 April 2026|date=11 April 2026|url= https://www.athletics.com.au/news/sub-10-again-in-kennedy-in-crowning-moment-at-australian-athletics-championships/ |website=Athletics.com.au}}</ref> Competing at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Botswana, he was part of the Australian men's 4 x 400 metres relay team alongside Luke van Ratingen, Matthew Hunt, and Aidan Murphy who set a new Oceania record of 2:57.30 breaking the previous best that had stood since 1984.<ref>{{Cite web | url= https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-relays/gaborone26/news/report/gaborone-26-report-4x400m-heats |title= World leads fall as 4x400m teams light up first round in Gaborone|date=2 May 2026 |access-date=2 May 2026| website=World Athletics}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7216920?eventId=204595&gender=M |title=World Athletics Relays|date=2 May 2026 |access-date=2 May 2026| website=World Athletics}}</ref> The following day he ran in the final of the men's 4 x 400 m relay as the Australian team ran a national record 2:55.20 to win the bronze medal and move to sixth on the world all-time list.<ref>{{Cite web | url= https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-relays/gaborone26/news/report/gaborone-26-report-men-4x400m-final |title= Botswana bring World Relays to epic close with historic men’s 4x400m win|date=3 May 2026|access-date=3 May 2026| website=World Athletics}}</ref>
==Personal life== Holder was born in England before moving to Queensland, Australia during primary school. He graduated from Wellington Point State High School in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown. He attended Queensland University of Technology. His father is from Trinidad and Tobago.<ref name="athletics.com.au 2023">{{cite web |url=https://www.athletics.com.au/news/reece-lightning-australian-burning-up-the-quarter-mile/ |website=Athletics.com.au |accessdate=23 July 2024 |title=REECE LIGHTNING - AUSTRALIAN BURNING UP THE QUARTER MILE |date=13 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1145144/unisport-australia-annual-awards-2023 |website=Inside the Games |accessdate=23 July 2024 |title=Unisport Australia awards: Cara Feain-Ryan and Reece Holder claim top prizes}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://www.athletics.com.au/athlete/reece-holder/ Reece Holder] at Australian Athletics * {{Australian Olympic Committee|reece-holder}} * {{Olympics.com|reece-holder}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{InterSportStats|3000331157}} * {{Instagram}}
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