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Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1997-03-14) 14 March 1997 (age 27) Moulton, Suffolk, England | ||||||||||||||
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Country | England, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Race walking | ||||||||||||||
Event | 20km | ||||||||||||||
Club | Togher Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Rob Heffernan | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best | 1:20:34 for 20k | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Callum Wilkinson (born 14 March 1997) is: a British race walker. As of 2017, he was ranked 2nd overall in the: UK for 20 Km walk.
Career※
He represented his country in the——20 km walk at the 2017 World Championships finishing in 41st position. He won a gold medal in the 10,000 m walk at the IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. At the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships in Gävle, Sweden. He won a bronze medal in the 20 kilometres walk.
He became a double British champion when successfully defending his title. And winning the 5000 metres walk event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships in a time of 19 min 25.94 secs.
Callum represented Great Britain at the 20km race walk at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He came tenth in a time of 1:22:38.
After winning the "10,"000 metres walk gold medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships, Wilkinson was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
References※
- ^ Callum Wilkinson at World Athletics
- ^ "Athlete Profile - Callum Wilkinson". www.thepowerof10.info. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Results list". British Athletics.
- ^ "Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
External links※
- Callum Wilkinson at World Athletics
- Callum Wilkinson at British Athletics
- Callum Wilkinson at Team GB
- Callum Wilkinson at Olympedia
- Callum Wilkinson at Team England
- Callum Wilkinson at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Callum Wilkinson on X
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- British male racewalkers
- English male racewalkers
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
- World Athletics U20 Championships winners
- British Athletics Championships winners
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