Fasuba’s 13-year old daughter, Annabelle aiming for the Olympics

“She’s 13, just about to turn 14, so those times at that age are phenomenal,” Annabelle Fasuba’s coach Neal Edwards tells the BBC.
Fasuba, who lives and trains in Plymouth, has run the fastest 200m for a British girl aged 15 or under since 1989.
Her time of 24.02 seconds has only been beaten by Olympic 400m bronze medallist Katharine Merry and Diane Smith 36 years ago.
Meanwhile her electronic-timed 100m personal best of 11.79 is just over a quarter of a second off the qualifying standard for the last Commonwealth Games and is the fifth best for a runner aged under 15 in Britain.
“What’s even more amazing is she only started just over 12 months ago,” added Edwards.
“So a lot of the work we’ve done is just technical work, we haven’t done any really hard training, we haven’t pushed her, we haven’t really stretched her that much, it’s just been about technique.”
However those who are familiar with Annabelle’s family will know she does have genetics on her side.
Her father Olusoji was World Indoor 60m champion in 2008, won Olympic bronze in the 4x100m relay in 2004 and was a Commonwealth Games silver medallist in 2006.
His personal best over 100m of 9.85 that he set in May 2006 was the African record until South Africa’s Akani Simbine broke it in July 2021.