Expectant Manchester mothers might want to take a close look to see if the woman delivering their baby this coming week is British sprinter Success Eduan.
The midwifery student secured one of the biggest paydays of her early career on Friday night in Budapest, pocketing 6,000 US dollars (£4,400) at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship with the mixed 4x100m relay quartet.
Eduan, the current British 200m champion, plans to become a full-time athlete, but first has to welcome a relay team’s worth of newborns into the world to satisfy the requirements of her programme.
“I’m finishing hopefully next week,” said Eduan, after the Britons finished third behind the United States and Jamaica. “I still have one more placement. Unfortunately I didn’t get my births two weeks ago, so I’m just going to get all my births done.
“I’ve got four more left to deliver. I arrive in Manchester on Monday afternoon, and I have a Monday night shift that day. Three nights, so I finish on Thursday morning.
“I’m hoping (I’ll get four), I usually do. September is usually a crazy month for babies.”
Eduan herself is a September baby and will turn 22 at the end of the month. She grew up in Spain before moving to Manchester, and switched from swimming to track after a teacher spotted her talent.
Her breakout year came in 2025, when she won the 200m European Under-23 title, then produced a stunning anchor leg at the World Relay Championships in Guangzhou, beating Shericka Jackson to bring home British gold – the only other comparable payout of her career.
Top three for GB 🤩
The Novuna GB&NI mixed relay team finish third in the mixed 4x100m at the World Athletics Ultimate Championships 🙌
Romell Glave, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Jeremiah Azu and Success Eduan finish in 40.26 in a blistering final 💨#WorldAthleticsUltimate pic.twitter.com/oRWJPQ9WhV
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) September 11, 2026
“I don’t tell (my patients) anything,” she said. “It’s actually more the midwives that say something. I usually go in there like, ‘I just want to go in there and be a student midwife’.
“But they get told and they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, can I get a picture?’. But we do talk about it. Pretty much everybody knows.”
Romell Glave, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Jeremiah Azu and Eduan crossed the finish line in 40.26 seconds and will split the winnings – 24,000 US dollars (£17,750), part of a USD10 million (£7.4m) prize pot – four ways.
Jazmin Sawyers finished second in the long jump to Italy’s Larissa Iapichino, taking home USD75,000 (£55,500), and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen continued his incredible comeback after an 11-month Achilles-related layoff, bagging one of the individual USD150,000 (£110,000) prizes with a stunning 5,000m victory.
Ingebrigtsen finished in 12 minutes, 59.24s to beat American rival Cole Hocker by 0.81s. The two-time Olympic and world champion was awarded a special exemption for the 1500m in Budapest, where – provided he recovers well – he will take on Scottish rival Josh Kerr.
“I’ll definitely have to spend my 12 hours from here on wisely,” said Ingebrigtsen, when asked if that showdown was still on.
“I’ve been drinking a lot of coffee and tea, so I (need) to get a good night’s sleep and see how I feel tomorrow. Cross my fingers, hoping for the best.”
Earlier, Keely Hodgkinson qualified fastest of the semi-finalists for Saturday evening’s hotly-anticipated 800m final, when she will take on Swiss European champion Audrey Werro and Dutch hurdling great Femke Broeders-Bol, who has switched to the distance.
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