Callum Wilkinson
{{Short description|British race walker (born 1997)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2024}}
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| nationality = British
| residence = Cork
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| birth_place = Moulton, Suffolk, England
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| country = England, United Kingdom
| sport = Race walking
| event = 20km
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| club = Togher Athletic Club
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| coach = Rob Heffernan
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| pb = 1:20:34 for 20k
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{{Medal|Sport |Men's athletics}}
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{{Medal|Competition|World Junior Championships}}
{{Medal|Gold |2016 Bydgoszcz|10,000 m walk}}
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Callum Wilkinson (born 14 March 1997) is a British race walker.{{World Athletics}} As of 2017, he was ranked 2nd overall in the UK for 20 km walk.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=548255|title=Athlete Profile - Callum Wilkinson|website=www.thepowerof10.info|language=en|access-date=2017-08-17}}
Career
Wilkinson represented Great Britain 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 5,000 metres walk event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships in a time of 19 min 25.94 secs.{{cite web|url=https://www.uka.org.uk/results/20200904_Manchester/timetable/index/|title=Results list|website=British Athletics}}
Wilkinson represented Great Britain in the 20km race walk at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. He came tenth in a time of 1:22:38.{{cite web|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/other-sport/tokyo-olympics-callum-wilkinson-and-tom-bosworth-wilt-in-the-heat-of-sapporo-3336092|title=Tokyo Olympics: Callum Wilkinson and Tom Bosworth wilt in the heat of Sapporo|publisher=Yorkshire Post|accessdate=3 August 2024}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cd1646n46zpo |title=Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad |website=BBC Sport |access-date=6 July 2024}} He finished 16th in the 20 kilometres walk at the Games in Paris.
References
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External links
- {{World Athletics}}
- {{British Athletics}}
- {{Team GB}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{Olympics.com|callum-wilkinson}}
- {{Team England|callum-wilkinson}}
- {{2018 Commonwealth Games profile|athletics/athlete-profile-n6032408-callum-wilkinson}}
- [https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/callum-wilkinson_1924505 Callum Wilkinson] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
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Category:English male race walkers
Category:British male race walkers
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for England
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
Category:World Athletics U20 Championships winners
Category:British Athletics Championships winners
Category:21st-century English sportsmen
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