A Brit athletics star who won two Commonwealth Games gold medals is missing abroad after reportedly going two months without contacting friends or colleagues.
Former sprinter Leon Baptiste, 41, is understood to have travelled to Morocco with friends for what was believed to be either a stag do or golfing trip.
But the trip was reportedly only meant to last a weekend – and he has allegedly not been heard from since, as reported by Need To Know.
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Texts and calls to Baptiste are said to have gone unanswered, sparking fears for his welfare.
Concerns were raised by a former teammate on 14 August.
Baptiste enjoyed a glittering sprinting career, winning two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.
He stormed to victory in the 200m before also taking gold as part of England’s 4x100m relay team.
Baptiste now works as a coach to a number of elite athletes, including Charlie Dobson, who won bronze in the 4x400m relay at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
He is also employed by UK Athletics as a consultant.
Dobson recently failed to make it out of the 400m semi-finals at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
But Baptiste was a notable absence, with friends and colleagues reportedly having had no contact with him since his trip to Morocco around two months ago.
A former teammate told the Guardian: “No one knows what has happened.
“It is very worrying.”
Baptiste burst onto the athletics scene as a teenager, winning 100m gold for Great Britain at the 2003 European Junior Championships in Finland aged just 18.
He also topped the podium as part of the 4x100m relay team.
His success saw him named junior male athlete of the year by the British Athletics Writers’ Association.
But Baptiste missed the London 2012 Olympics after undergoing surgery.
He retired from competitive athletics aged 28 in 2014 before moving into coaching.
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