Callum Hawkins

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| birth_name = Callum Robert Hawkins[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-births&surname=Hawkins&surname_so=exact&forename_so=starts&sex=M&from_year=1970&to_year=2000&county=RENFREW&record_type=stat_births Statutory registers - Births - Search results], ScotlandsPeople

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| birth_place = Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland

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| alma_mater = Butler University
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| height = 179 cm[https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/callum-hawkins Callum Hawkins] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826090023/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/callum-hawkins |date=26 August 2016 }}. rio2016

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| event = 3000-10,000 m, half marathon, marathon

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| club = Kilbarchan Amateur Athletics Club
Butler University
University of the West of Scotland[http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=hawkins-callum-1217658/index.html Callum Hawkins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919141916/http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=hawkins-callum-1217658/index.html |date=19 September 2016 }}. nbcolympics.com

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| pb = 3000 m – 8:07.98i (2010)
5000 m – 14:03.37i (2012){{cite web |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=14191 |title=Athlete Profile |website=www.thepowerof10.info}}
10000 m – 28:02 (2019)
HM – 1:00:00 (2017)
Marathon – 2:08:14 (2019)[https://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-gold-label-road-races/2019/virgin-money-london-marathon-6640]. IAAF

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Callum Robert Hawkins (born 22 June 1992) is a Scottish distance runner, who competed in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is the Scottish record holder in the marathon and the British all-time number six at that distance.{{Cite web |title=Ranking List |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/rankings/rankinglist.aspx?event=Mar&agegroup=ALL&sex=M&alltime=y |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.thepowerof10.info}} Hawkins is also the all-time Great Britain number two (and European all-time number six) in the half marathon. He is the Great Scottish Run course record holder and was the first British man to win that event in 23 years.

Personal life

Hawkins was born on 22 June 1992 in Elderslie near Paisley.{{cite web |title=Athlete Profile Callum Hawkins |url=http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=14191 |website=thepowerof10.info |publisher=British Athletics |accessdate=10 May 2016}} He has two elder brothers, Scott and Derek, the latter of whom is also an international distance runner.{{cite news |last1=Bloom |first1=Ben |title=London Marathon 2016: Sibling rivalry inspires Hawkins brothers |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2016/04/22/london-marathon-2016-sibling-rivalry-inspires-hawkins-brothers/ |accessdate=10 May 2016 |work=The Telegraph |date=22 April 2016}} The brothers were encouraged to take up athletics and are trained by their father Robert, a former international runner. Between 2010 and 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. Some time before 2013 he had two surgeries on his left knee.

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.{{cite web |title=Callum Hawkins Athlete Profile |url=http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/callum-hawkins-248669 |publisher=IAAF |accessdate=10 May 2016}}

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.

Hawkins competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Scotland, representing the host nation in the men's 10,000 metres, finishing 20th.{{cite news |title=Cross Country: Callum Hawkins in for the long haul as he prepares to take on Farah |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/13195741.Cross_Country__Callum_Hawkins_in_for_the_long_haul_as_he_prepares_to_take_on_Farah/ |accessdate=10 May 2016 |work=The Herald (Glasgow) |date=4 January 2015}}

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.{{cite news |title=Great Scottish Run: Moses Kipsiro & Edna Kiplagat win half marathon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/34438022 |accessdate=10 May 2016 |work=BBC Sport |date=4 October 2014}}{{cite web |title=Brilliant Callum now ready for marathon |url=http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/brilliant-callum-now-ready-for-marathon/ |publisher=Scottish Athletics |accessdate=9 May 2016 |date=5 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605014359/http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/brilliant-callum-now-ready-for-marathon/ |archive-date=5 June 2016 |url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite news |title=Callum Hawkins beats Olympic marathon mark on debut |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/34631732 |accessdate=10 May 2016 |work=BBC Sport |date=25 October 2015}}

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.{{cite news |last1=Ingle |first1=Sean |title=London Marathon: Tsegai Tewelde and Callum Hawkins make British Olympic team |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/24/london-marathon-tsegay-tewelde-callum-hawkins-british-olympic-team |accessdate=9 May 2016 |work=The Guardian |date=24 April 2016}}{{cite news |title=London Marathon: Callum Hawkins and Tsegai Tewelde seal Rio places |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/36124436 |accessdate=9 May 2016 |work=BBC Sport |date=24 April 2016}} He was joined in the men's marathon by fellow British athletes, Tsegai Tewelde and his brother Derek Hawkins.{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Jane |title=Rio 2016: Tsegai Tewelde living Olympic dream after London Marathon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/36144845 |accessdate=9 May 2016 |work=BBC Sport |date=26 April 2016}}

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

In October 2016 he again ran the Great Scottish Run and this time was the overall winner of the event in 1:00:24. This would have been a new Scottish half-marathon record, but the race was found to be 150 m short, which invalidated the result.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38798775 |website=BBC News |title=Great Scottish Run half-marathon course found to be short |date=30 January 2017}}

In January 2017 he became the first British athlete to beat Mo Farah in any race for 7 years at the Great Edinburgh International Cross Country race, which has been held annually since 2005. In fact Callum was 2nd in this race overall (with Farah in 7th) - Callum had put in a strong performance to lead for most of the race, but was out-sprinted by Leonard Korir in the final straight.

In February 2017 Hawkins won the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon in Japan, in 60:00, setting a new Scottish half-marathon record. The previous record was set by Allister Hutton in 1987.{{cite news |title=Callum Hawkins sets Scottish half-marathon record in Japan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/38872644 |accessdate=16 February 2017 |work=BBC Sport |date=5 February 2017}}

In August 2017 Hawkins finished 4th in the men's marathon at the 2017 World Championships, equalling the best ever performance by a British runner in this event.{{cite news |title=World Championships 2017: Callum Hawkins fourth as Geoffrey Kirui wins marathon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/40843702 |accessdate=16 August 2017 |work=BBC Sport |date=6 August 2017}}

Hawkins competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia, and collapsed near the finish while leading, from heat exhaustion in 30 degree heat.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/15/marathon-greats-condemn-games-organisers-over-hawkins-treatment |website=Guardian.com |title=Marathon experts condemn delay in treatment to collapsed Callum Hawkins |author1=Martha Kelner |date=4 October 2018}}

Hawkins came fourth in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, the same placing as in 2017.{{cite web |url=https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/6033/AT-MAR-M-f----.RS6.pdf |title=Marathon Men − Final − Results |publisher=IAAF |date=5 October 2019 |accessdate=6 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627234043/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/6033/AT-MAR-M-f----.RS6.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2020}} He competed in the men's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.{{Cite web |title=Men's Marathon Results |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/ATH/OG2020-_ATH_C73K_ATHMMARATHON----------FNL-000100--.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808002334/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/ATH/OG2020-_ATH_C73K_ATHMMARATHON----------FNL-000100--.pdf |archive-date=8 August 2021 |access-date=24 August 2021 |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics|publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games}}