Beth Dobbin

Olympian, 200m Sprinter for 🇬🇧

[Beth Dobbin @BethDobbin]

I’M GOING TO THE OLYMPICS!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️ I’ve dreamt of this since I was 9 years old, I’m absolutely speechless. Thank you so so much everyone for the support ❤️❤️❤️ I’ll reply when I’ve came back down to earth 🤯🤯

[Owen @_OwenM_]

“I may not be leaving with any Olympic medal, but I’m leaving with many dreams fulfilled, more than I ever thought I was capable of.”

Beth Dobbin 🇬🇧 has announced her retirement from track and field at age 31.

She last raced in 2022, having been dealing with a serious and life-changing issue since.

Some of her career accolades include:
• 4x400m Commonwealth medallist (‘22)
• 200m Scottish record holder (22.50s)
• 200m National Champion (‘18)
• 2x Diamond League finalist (‘21-‘22)
• Olympic semifinalist (‘21)
• European finalist (‘18)

All the best with your future endeavours, @BethDobbin ❤️

[Global Athletics Hub @glblathletichub]

Scottish 200m record holder Beth Dobbin 🇬🇧, has announced her retirement from track and field at 31, citing a ‘serious and life changing health issue’.

Dobbin held a PB of 22.50s over 200m, and won commonwealth 4x400m bronze with Scotland in 2922.

[scottishathletics @scotathletics]

BEST WISHES, BETH
#SALtogether
✍️Our story @BethDobbin fine career + great ambassador for our sport🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
https://t.co/68Fz1Hb97C
📷@Bobby_ThatOneMo
@OvensDavid @Team_Scotland @leslie_roy1 @EdinburghAC @_ZoeyClark @alisha_rees1 @EilidhDoyle @AthleticsWeekly @euancrumley

[scottishathletics @scotathletics]

@BethDobbin 👏

https://t.co/68Fz1HaBi4

[Beth Dobbin @BethDobbin]

I will miss giving enthusiastic post race interviews 😂❤️

[scottishathletics @scotathletics]

BETH MEDAL MOMENT
#SALtogether
'I Facetimed my dad just before podium and said 'Get the TV on - we've won bronze'🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@BethDobbin Birmingham 2022 4x400m🥉
@Team_Scotland
https://t.co/wOBEMVONgJ
@_ZoeyClark @yourfitnic @SALChiefExec @OvensDavid @AthleticsWeekly @JennySelman2

[Leon Baptiste @LeonBaptiste]

Incredible athlete journey…hardworking, dedicated and very determined. An absolute pleasure to work with over the past 12 years, and someone who has played a huge role in my own journey as a coach. Wishing you all the very best in your retirement ❤️

[scottishathletics @scotathletics]

A career to be proud of.

Best wishes to Beth Dobbin who's announced her retirement from athletics on health grounds

Current 200m Scottish record holder, Beth represented Team Scotland at Birmingham 2022 as well as GB at multiple World & European Champs & the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

[Beth Dobbin @BethDobbin]

Being the 200m record holder is by far one of my proudest achievements 💙🤍

[Team Scotland @Team_Scotland]

@BethDobbin has announced her retirement from athletics aged 31 due to a “serious and life changing health issue”.

Everyone at Team Scotland would like to thank Beth for her outstanding contribution.

#TeamScotland #BethDobbin #Athletics #commonwealthgames

[Jane Dougall @janedougallbbc]

Olympian Beth Dobbin, who holds the Scottish 200m record has announced her retirement from athletics because of a "serious and life changing health issue."

[AW @AthleticsWeekly]

Beth Dobbin has announced her retirement from athletics aged 31 due to a "serious and life changing health issue".

The sprinter represented Team GB in the 200m at the Tokyo Olympics and is a Commonwealth 4x400m bronze medallist.

She is also the Scottish 200m record-holder (22.50) and ran for Great Britain at two World and European Athletics Championships.

[Mark Woods @markbritball]

Scottish 200m record holder and Tokyo Olympian Beth Dobbin announces her retirement from athletics due to a health issue.

[Beth Dobbin @BethDobbin]

A love letter to Athletics ❤️⁣
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How lucky I am to have had something that makes saying goodbye so hard 😭⁣

[Ben Bloom @benbloomsport]

“The only thing left for me was death.”

Almost 10 years ago, Luvo Manyonga conquered the athletics world. But he was addicted to crystal meth, and his life sank into crime and drugs.

Now, after a brutal beating nearly killed him, he’s back at the top.
https://t.co/pgeEvUEQgS

[CountingDeadWomen @CountDeadWomen]

Today during the International Women’s Day parliamentary debate @jessphillips will read the names of women killed since IWD 2025 where the suspect is male.
We sent her the ‘final’ version of the list last night. This morning, we’ve had to add 2 women.
There is never a final list

[Andreia Nobre 💚🤍💜 @Andreia_O_Nobre]

Urging you all to sign this petition and take it to 100k signatures!
https://t.co/kkKn3KwXF8

[Scotland Football Kits II🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scottishkits2]

Never ever forget St.Mirren and Raith Rovers are Towns in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

We've had a new report out into maternity and neonatal care and honestly... there's not a single surprise in it.

It's still - and I don't use these words lightly - a total disgrace. We've had multiple reports telling us this. And yet the same problems keep happening.

Women not being listened to - mums and babies being harmed or even dying - when they shouldn't be. So many people have their own stories - I'm sure if you're listening to this right now you might have your own story - or know someone who does.

There's one thing I wanted to pick out from the report by Baroness Valerie Amos.

The investigation heard cases of women who had lost babies being placed on wards with newborns.

This might seem like a little thing. But can you imagine losing a baby. The worst moment of your entire life. All those hopes and dreams for your child's future. Carrying the baby inside you - feeling it grow - and then the blood, the desperation that maybe it's going to be ok, surely it's got to be ok, and then the reality that you've lost your child.

And then what happens? You're put on a ward full of other mothers just like you... but these mums have their little babies in their arms.

That is not just negligent. It is cruel.

And it also happens systematically throughout the NHS. Having a miscarriage? Go to the maternity unit. Just had a scan where you'd hope to see your baby kicking but actually find out it doesn't have a heart beat? Go and sit down with all the happily pregnant mums.

This is symptomatic of a system where women are treated like vessels not like people who should be heard and listened to.

Because bringing life into the world can be the happiest time of your life. But it can also be the worst time of your life.

Either way - it's the most important moment. And that's why we've got to get this right.

[BBC Sport Scotland @BBCSportScot]

THIS is how Scotland qualify for a World Cup.

Take a bow, Kenny McLean.

#BBCFootball

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

This is making me think of the sort of studies which show that women getting, say, a quarter of the speaking time in a meeting are registered by men present as them doing most of the talking. That we are getting any airtime at all on the BBC now registers as prioritisation./

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

It only took:
Eight years of notebooks of tracking stats.
Six years after presenting my findings for the first time. @fairplaywomen @sharrond62
Five years after writing the first peer-reviewed paper that established an evidence base for policy making. @TLexercise @Scienceofsport

An onslaught of abuse.
Multiple institutional complaints, and attempts to trash my credibility.
Arguments to force retractions.
A report to the U.K. police.
A trans-identifying male tweeting about me 400 times a month, while making vulgar remarks about his breasts.
No platforming and refusals to even be in the same room as me.

IOC-backed scientists calling me TERF in secret groups.
IOC-backed scientists making published arguments to ignore my papers.
IOC “scientists” snarling at me in a public forum.
An IOC sociologist inventing a whole new term to describe my approach, as if “biofeminism” was a pejorative 😂
An IOC-backed journal rejecting an extensive and well-backed critique of the IOC policy that has now been thrown out (because transphobe, testosterone doesn’t map to performance anyway, and other such bullshit).

So many - far too many - private apologies from those too concerned to be publicly associated with me.

The IOC didn’t need this scientific review. The work was already done, by those of us who have worked diligently for years to synthesise and analyse evidence, to consider arguments and examine counter arguments, all in the public domain.

And all of whom have suffered the same backlash. @runthinkwrite @cathydevine56

Male development leads to male sporting advantage, and it’s baked in.

It’s that simple.