Ready, Set, Glasgow podcast: Success Eduan - Balancing midwifery, sprinting success and handling pressure
Success Eduan is the final guest on Ready, Set, Glasgow podcast series.
Two-time European under-23 gold medallist Success Eduan is a fascinating final guest to conclude England Athletics Podcast's "Ready, Set, Glasgow" series, in connection with the Commonwealth Games.
The 21-year-old won 200m and 4x100m titles in Bergen last year and is also the reigning UK 200m champion, but there are so many other things that you might not know about her. Success is a midwifery student who initially grew up in Spain, before moving to Manchester.
At first, she focused on swimming, and her running talent was spotted by a teacher when she sprinted the whole way during a cross country race.
I just blasted it, I literally ran the whole course and I started hyperventilating 200m away from the finish line," Eduan recalls. "My teacher was like 'slow down, Success, slow it down'. I ignored her!"
"I wasn't really interested in track until high school," she adds. "(Swimming) was taxing, but it was fun. I was doing tennis, I was doing football. I was just really energetic and the sun was always out so you couldn't be inside."
It was during the 2021 European Athletics Under-20 Championships where Success got a 200m bronze and 4x100m gold that she realised what could be possible in the sport. In those five years, she has been part of a really exciting group of emerging sprinters that also includes the likes of Joy Eze, Faith Akinbileje, Renee Regis and others.
"We are all really good friends," she says. "Even like Emily Newnham, Yemi Mary John, all these people, we were in championships together at age groups and are now coming through to seniors. It's kind of saying like 'we are here to stay, we are not going anywhere'."
Eduan did her talking on the track when she produced an incredible leg at the 2025 World Athletics Relays, beating Jamaican sprinting legend Shericka Jackson to bring home the gold for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was a moment that showed how well she could handle pressure. "It was such a high," said Success. "You shouldn't let pressure get to you because that's when you just lose sight of everything and you stop enjoying it."
The Sale Harriers athlete is in the final year of her midwifery degree and was doing her exams while preparing for the Commonwealth Games. She is hoping to graduate in November from what is an unusual course for an athlete, albeit midwife and Team Scotland sprinter Taylah Paterson competed in the 4x100m at Birmingham 2022.
"It's definitely different, but it still requires the same kind of concepts," she says. There's still a lot of pressure, adrenaline, the emergency buzzers can go off when you're on the ward. Long hours, we are required to do 2,300 clinical hours, spaced out over three years. It's very, very intense, but it's definitely taught me a lot about time organisation, communication and a lot of resilience. I've always wanted to be working in a hospital," she explains.
The episode is now available to watch on YouTube, as well as listen to on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.