Domestic Championships Record
2004 – 2nd BUSA Indoor Championships 1500m, 2nd BUSA Championships 800m, 2nd AAA Championships 1500m
2005 – 2nd AAA Indoor Championships 3000m, 1st BUSA Championships 5000m, 2nd AAA Championships 1500m
2006 – 1st AAA Championships 1500m
2007 – 1st Norwich Union World Trials 1500m
2008 – 2nd Olympic Trials 800m
2010 – European Trials 1500m gold
2011 – European Indoor Trials 3000m gold

Major Championships Record
Olympic Games – 2008 9th
World Championships – 2007 9th, 2009 11th sf
European Championships – 2006 6th
Commonwealth Games – 2006 12th (fell), 2010 6th
European Indoor Championships – 2011 4th 300m

Other noteworthy performances
2005 – 2nd World University Games 1500m
2008 – 1st European Cup 3000m
2010 – 5th IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup 1500m 5th, IAAF World Challenge Meeting 5000m gold

Andy Baddeley established himself as Britain’s top miler in 2006 and has been a stalwart in major championships finals since his breakthrough. Baddeley was unlucky in the Commonwealth Games when he fell in the 1500m, which ruined his medal chances, as well as causing a further injury to his wrist, which was caused when falling at the AAA Indoor Championships earlier that winter.

By the summer, Baddeley won his first major domestic title over 1500m and made the European final, finishing sixth but vastly improved over the next two years.

Baddeley made a great breakthrough in the summer year in 2007, beating the likes of Bernard Lagat in Sheffield, before making the world final in Osaka.

He was in the form of his life in 2008, as he took an unexpected win in the famous Dream Mile race in Oslo, before winning the European Cup over 3000m, but an Achilles injury wrecked his medal chances in the Olympic Games final, as he placed ninth.

In 2009 he ran in his first 5000m race since 2005,and set a PB of 13:20.99, which was just short of the 'A' qualifier for Berlin, but his focus was for the 1500m where after suffering from injury in the lead in to the championships he qualified comfortably in his heat, only to finish with an extremely foot which necessitated in him being on crutches24 hour before his semi-final. He courageously ran the semi-final with a pain-killing injection, but perhaps expectedly ran well below his potential. After Berlin his form picked up and had good runs in the Gateshead GP, Rieti, BUPA road 5k in Regents Park, the Great North City Games road mile and finished his season in style winning the prestigious Fifth Avenue Mile in New York. 2010 started in great style with a 3:55.64 mile at the New Balance Games in New York and an outright pb over 5000m in Melbourne in March with 13:20.85. After winning the UKA European Championship Trials he looked set for a certain podium place in Barcelona but after a very slow tactical race he finished outside of the medals. After that he struggled with his form for a few weeks but seemed to be returning to his best going into the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, however in the final he again ran well below par in a slow race and although finishing fast he could only manage sixth place. Over the final few months of 2010 he wintered well and in 2011 he placed fourth over 3000m at the European Indoor Championships and retained his title at the Boston Invitational Mile.

Rather astonishingly, Baddeley runs with an electrocardiogram in his chest because of an irregular heartbeat. He has a first-class honours degree from Cambridge University in aerospace engineering and used to be a part-time lecturer at St. Mary’s.