Drew McMaster
{{short description|Scottish sprinter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Drew McMaster
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| nationality = British (Scottish)
| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprints
| club = Edinburgh AC
| birth_date = 10 May 1957
| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
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| height =166 cm
| weight =68 kg
| medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport | Men's athletics }}
{{MedalCountry | {{SCO}} }}
{{MedalCompetition |Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalGold|1978 Edmonton|4 x 100 metres}}
{{MedalBronze|1982 Brisbane|4 x 100 metres}}
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Andrew Emlyn McMaster (born 10 May 1957) is a retired Scottish sprinter who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/drew-mcmaster-1.html |website=Sport-Reference.com |title=Profile|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418011305/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/drew-mcmaster-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 }}
Biography
In 1976, he was Scottish, AAA's Indoor and junior 200 metres champion. He went on to win two further Scottish 200 metres titles in 1977 and 1978. Also in 1978, he went with the Scottish athletics team to the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, where he won the 4x100 relay gold medal alongside David Jenkins, Allan Wells, and Cameron Sharp.
McMaster was runner up in the UK Athletics Championships over the 100 and 200 in 1978 and 1980 respectively and at the 1980 Olympics Games in Moscow, he represented Great Britain in the 100 metres, reaching the quarter-final and anchoring the British team in the sprint relay that finished 4th in the final, with a then British record of 38.62 seconds.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69300 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=13 June 2025}}{{cite book|last=Wallechinsky|first=David |title=The Complete Book of the Olympics|publisher=Viking Press|location=New York|year=1984|pages=65|isbn=978-0-14-006632-6}}
McMaster became the British 100 metres champion after finished third behind Mel Lattany and Ernest Obeng at the 1981 AAA Championships{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19810809/038/0038 |title=Results |work=Sunday Sun (Newcastle) |date=9 August 1981 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 June 2025}} but by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete was considered the British champion.{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=12 June 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=12 June 2025}} He also won the Scottish 100 metres championships in 1981 and 1982.
In 1982, he went to the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, where he won a bronze medal with the sprint relay team, and also made it to the 100 metres final where he finished eighth.
His personal bests were 10.37 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.77 sec for the 200 metres.
In 1995, he admitted that he had taken performance-enhancing drugs. In 2016, McMaster revealed that he knew for certain that at least six other athletes did the same during the 1980s.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-35959180/former-sprinter-drew-mcmaster-took-steroids-to-run-faster|title=McMaster 'took steroids to run faster'|publisher=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-04-10}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-32883944 |title=Allan Wells 'took drugs ahead of gold medal win' |website=BBC Scotland |date=5 June 2015 |access-date=13 June 2025}}
References
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Category:Scottish male sprinters
Category:British male sprinters
Category:Athletes from Edinburgh
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
Category:Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games