Who is Riley Day? A 21-year-old Australian sprinter Riley Day was selected for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and competed in the Women’s 200 meters.
Riley Day’s a sprinter from Australia. She was selected to compete in the Women’s 200 meters for the TOS 2020 Summer Olympics.
The third day was in her heat and thus qualified for the semi-final. The winner of Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Frazer-Pryce managed to take a time of 102:56, 0.43 seconds.
Riley Day Parents
Unfortunately, Riley Day’s parents are yet to be known to the public.
When Riley entered her local Little Athletics club in her hometown Beaudesert, Queensland, by her mother, she commenced her athletic career at the age of nine.
She went her first 100-mile in 2014 at the age of 14.
Riley ran at the Queensland school championships two years later in 2016 at 23:51 (200m), and she also ran a 100 meters wind-assisted 11:39 m.
She took the title National Schools two months later at 11.36 (100m) and 23.52 (200 m).
Riley Day Height
Riley, the Australian sprinter, stands at the height of 1.7m as of 2021.
Riley became publicly aware of her career achievements by her performances at the 2017 Nitro Athletics series.
Then she competed for gold in the 200 meters and silver in 100 meters at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas.
She was invited to compete for 200 meters from her performances at the London World Athletics Championships in 2017.
At the 2017 World Championship in Athletics, Riley participated in the women’s 200 meters. With a time of 23.77s, she put the seventh in her heat.
At the Commonwealth Games 2018 on the Gold Coast, Australia, she competed for 200 meters.
She finished in the semi-finals and finished fourth on 23.24 in her race. She missed 0.01s for Bianca Williams in the final.
Riley Day Age: How Old Is She?
Sprinter Riley Day’s age is currently 21 years old.
She was born on 30 March 2000 in Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia.
Find Riley Day On Instagram
Sprinter Riley Day is an active user on Instagram.
She can be found under the handle @_rileyday.
In her verified account, Riley has amassed 110k followers with 173 posts at the time of writing.