Nicholas Percy

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Nicholas Percy

| honorific_suffix = OLY

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|12|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

| height = 1.89 m

| weight = 125 kg

| sport = Athletics

| event = Discus throw

| club = Shaftesbury Barnet{{cite web|website=The Power of 10|url=http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=29021 |title=Power of 10 profile Nick Percy|accessdate=14 April 2025}}

| education = University of Nebraska–Lincoln

| collegeteam = Nebraska Cornhuskers

| coach = Raymond Scovell (–2010)
John Hillier (2012–2013)
William Bushnell (2011–2011)
Vésteinn Hafsteinsson (2014–2020)
Zane Duquemin (2020–)| medaltemplates =

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Nicholas Percy (born 5 December 1994) is a Scottish athlete specialising in the discus throw. He has competed at multiple major Championships, including the 2024 Olympic Games.{{cite web|website=World Athletics|accessdate=14 April 2025|url= https://worldathletics.org/athletes/-/14452345|title=Nicholas Percy}}

Biography

Born in Glasgow, he later became based on the Isle of Wight.{{cite web|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/interviews/nick-percy-in-the-form-of-his-life-1039989002/|website=Athletics Weekly|accessdate=13 April 2025|title= Nick Percy in the form of his life|date=28 June 2024}} He won a silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships in Rieti, Italy, with a discus throw of 62.04 metres.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7049131?eventId=10229686|website=World Athletics|access-date=13 April 2025|title= European Junior Championships|date=18 July 2013}} He won the NCAA Championships in 2016. That year, he won his first British Athletics Championships title. He retained his title the following year and subsequently, Percy represented Great Britain at the 2017 World Championships without reaching the final.

He became British champion for the fifth time when winning the discus throw event at the 2022 British Athletics Championships with a throw of 65.00. He finished fifth representing Scotland in the discus throw at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7147633?eventId=10229620|website=World Athletics|accessdate=13 April 2025|title= XXII Commonwealth Games|date=30 July 2022}} In 2022, he also represented Great Britain at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and the 2022 European Athletics Championships. However, a back injury waylaid his forward progress and in 2023 he managed a season's best throw of 64.73 metres, and he missed the World Championships that year.

He threw a personal best in the event of 67.73 metres, set at the Oklahoma Throws Series, Ramona, Oklahoma, USA, on 6 April 2024. This Improved his PB by more than two metres and his ranking from No.10 to No.2 on the UK all-time list, with only UK record-holder Lawrence Okoye having thrown further. Percy also improved his own Scottish record of 65.00m, which he had previously set at the UK Championships in 2022. {{cite web | url=https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/nick-percy-goes-no-2-on-the-uk-all-time-discus-rankings-1039977174/ | title=Nick Percy goes No.2 on the UK all-time discus rankings | date=7 April 2024 }}

After winning the discus silver medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships, Percy was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cd1646n46zpo |title=Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad |website=BBC Sport |access-date=6 July 2024}} where he failed to qualify for the final.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/c9355p3ejglo|title='It is such a special day, so there is no disappointment'|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=9 August 2024}}

He threw 67.03 metres at the Oklahoma Throws Series meeting on 13 April 2025.{{cite web|url= https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/mykolas-alekna-shatters-own-world-discus-record-in-oklahoma-1039999065/|first=Tim|last=Adams |website=Athletics Weekly|accessdate=13 April 2025|title= Mykolas Alekna shatters own world discus record in Oklahoma |date=13 April 2025}}

International competitions

{{AchievementTable\|Event=yes}}
colspan="6"\|Representing {{GBR2}} and {{SCO}}
rowspan=3\|2011 \|World Youth Championships \|Lille, France \|7th \|Discus throw (1.5 kg) \|58.95 m
rowspan=2\|Commonwealth Youth Games \|rowspan=2\|Douglas, Isle of Man \|bgcolor=silver\|2nd \|Discus throw (1.5 kg) \|62.96 m
bgcolor=cc9966\|3rd \|Hammer throw (5 kg) \|64.96 m
2012 \|World Junior Championships \|Barcelona, Spain \|8th \|Discus throw (1.75 kg) \|57.79 m
2013 \|European Junior Championships \|Rieti, Italy \|bgcolor=silver\|2nd \|Discus throw (1.75 kg) \|62.04 m
2014 \|Commonwealth Games \|Glasgow, United Kingdom \|13th (q) \|Discus throw \|56.71 m
2017 \|World Championships \|London, United Kingdom \|29th (q) \|Discus throw \|56.93 m
2019 \|Universiade \|Naples, Italy \|7th \|Discus throw \|60.92 m
rowspan=3\|2022 \|World Championships \|Eugene, United States \|14th (q) \|Discus throw \|63.20 m
European Championships \|Munich, Germany \|14th (q) \|Discus throw \|61.26 m
Commonwealth Games \|Birmingham, United Kingdom \|5th \|Discus throw \|63.53 m
2024 \|Olympic Games \|Paris, France \|20th (q) \|Discus throw \|61.81 m

colspan="6"|Representing {{GBR2}} and {{SCO}}

rowspan=3|2011

|World Youth Championships

|Lille, France

|7th

|Discus throw (1.5 kg)

|58.95 m

rowspan=2|Commonwealth Youth Games

|rowspan=2|Douglas, Isle of Man

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Discus throw (1.5 kg)

|62.96 m