Callum Wilkinson
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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 | ||||||||||||||
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Callum Wilkinson (born 14 March 1997) is a British race walker.[1] As of 2017, he was ranked 2nd overall in the UK for 20 Km walk.[2] 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.[3]
Callum represented Great Britain at the 20km race walk at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He came tenth in a time of 1:22:38.
References
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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- 1986: Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)
- 1988: Alberto Cruz (MEX)
- 1990: Ilya Markov (URS)
- 1992: Jefferson Pérez (ECU)
- 1994: Jorge Segura (MEX)
- 1996: Paquillo Fernández (ESP)
- 1998: Roman Rasskazov (RUS)
- 2000: Cristian Berdeja (MEX)
- 2002: Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)
- 2004: Andrey Ruzavin (RUS)
- 2006: Bo Xiangdong (CHN)
- 2008: Stanislav Emelyanov (RUS)
- 2010: Valeriy Filipchuk (RUS)
- 2012: Éider Arévalo (COL)
- 2014: Daisuke Matsunaga (JPN)
- 2016: Callum Wilkinson (GBR)
- 2018: Zhang Yao (CHN)
- 2021: Heristone Wafula (KEN)
- 2022: Mazlum Demir (TUR)
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