Callum Hawkins

Callum Hawkins

Hawkins at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality British
Born (1992-06-22) 22 June 1992
Elderslie
Alma mater Butler University
University of the West of Scotland
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport Track and Field
Event(s) 3000-10,000 m, half marathon, marathon
Club Kilbarchan Amateur Athletics Club
Butler University
University of the West of Scotland[2]
Coached by Robert Hawkins (father)[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 3000 m – 8:13.02 (2010)
5000 m – 14:11.60 (2011)
HM – 1:00:22(2016)
Marathon – 2:10:52 (2016)[3]
Updated on 21 August 2016.

Callum Hawkins (born 22 June 1992) is a British distance runner, who competed in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is the all-time Great Britain number 2 (and European all-time number six) at half marathon, behind Mo Farah, and 2016 winner, and course record holder, of the Great Scottish Run, the first British winner of the event in 23 years.

Personal life

Hawkins was born on 22 June 1992 in Elderslie near Paisley.[4] He has an elder brother Derek.[5] Callum and Derek were encouraged to take up distance running, and are trained by their father Robert, a former international runner.[2] In 2010–2012 Hawkins competed for the Butler University in the United States, earning all-American status, and winning the 2011 Men's Athlete of the Year award for the Great Lakes Region. He was the first athlete from the Butler University to win the award. After that he studied mechanical engineering at the University of the West of Scotland.[5] Some time before 2013 he had two surgeries on his left knee.[2]

Athletics

At the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Hawkins finished 47th in the junior men's race in a time of 24 minutes and 21 seconds.[6]

In 2013 he finished seventh in the men's under-23's race at the European Cross Country Championships. At the 2014 European Cross Country Championships he improved to a fifth-place finish in the under-23's race.[4]

Hawkins competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Scotland, representing the host nation in the men's 10,000 metres, finishing 20th.[7]

In October 2015 he finished the Great Scottish Run in a time of one hour two minutes and 42 seconds, setting a personal best to in second place overall behind Uganda's Moses Kipsiro and winning the gold medal for Scottish athletes.[8][9] Later that month he competed in his first marathon in Frankfurt, finishing twelfth in two hours 12 minutes and 17 seconds, in a race won by Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma.[10]

At the 2016 London Marathon, his second event over the distance, Hawkins finished eighth overall, and was the first British-qualified athlete to finish, in a time of two hours 10 minutes and 52 seconds. This time was inside the qualifying time of two hours 14 minutes needed to earn him a place in the Great Britain team for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[11][12] He will be joined in the men's marathon by fellow British athletes, Tsegai Tewelde and his brother Derek Hawkins.[13]

Hawkins finished ninth in the marathon at the 2016 Olympics in a time of 2:11:52.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Callum Hawkins. rio2016
  2. 1 2 3 4 Callum Hawkins. nbcolympics.com
  3. ↑ Callum Hawkins. IAAF
  4. 1 2 "Athlete Profile Callum Hawkins". thepowerof10.info. British Athletics. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 Bloom, Ben (22 April 2016). "London Marathon 2016: Sibling rivalry inspires Hawkins brothers". The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Callum Hawkins Athlete Profile". IAAF. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Cross Country: Callum Hawkins in for the long haul as he prepares to take on Farah". The Herald (Glasgow). 4 January 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Great Scottish Run: Moses Kipsiro & Edna Kiplagat win half marathon". BBC Sport. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Brilliant Callum now ready for marathon". Scottish Athletics. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Callum Hawkins beats Olympic marathon mark on debut". BBC Sport. 25 October 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  11. ↑ Ingle, Sean (24 April 2016). "London Marathon: Tsegai Tewelde and Callum Hawkins make British Olympic team". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  12. ↑ "London Marathon: Callum Hawkins and Tsegai Tewelde seal Rio places". BBC Sport. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  13. ↑ Lewis, Jane (26 April 2016). "Rio 2016: Tsegai Tewelde living Olympic dream after London Marathon". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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