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| Born | 18 May 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics, Triathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 800 metres, 1500 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Erin Wallace (born 18 May 2000) is a Scottish triathlete and middle distance runner. [1]
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| Country | Great Britain Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Event(s) | 800 metres, 1500 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Erin Wallace (born 18 May 2000) is a Scottish triathlete and middle distance runner. [1]
Wallace attended school at Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire. [2] Wallace studied neuroscience at the University of Glasgow. [3]
Wallace won age-group won Scottish cross-country titles in 2014 and 2015. She broke the UK under-17 indoor 800 metres record with 2:06.59 in 2016, also set Scottish indoor records over 1500m and 3000m with 4:25.75 and 9:36.07, which placed her second and third all-time in the UK for the respective distances. [4] Later that year she was a 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships bronze medallist in Tbilisi in 2016, over 1500 metres. She became a British international in January 2017 at the Great Edinburgh International. [5] She represented Scotland in the Bahamas at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, winning gold in the 1500m metres. [6]
She made her senior Commonwealth Games debut at the Gold Coast in 2018, competing in the Triathlon mixed team relay event, finishing in 7th place. [7] [8] That year, she won silver in Gold Coast in the World Triathlon Junior Women's Grand Final in 2017. [9] She finished seventh at the World Athletics U20 Championships over 1500 metres in Tampere in 2018. [10]
She was a European U23 Championships bronze medallist in 2021 in Tallinn over 1500 metres. [11]
She was runner-up at the British Indoor Athletics Championships in the 1500 metres in February 2022. However, a stress fracture in her foot caused her to miss the outdoor season that year. For 2023, she changed her coaching set-up to train with Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows in Manchester. [12] [13]
On 17 February 2024, she qualified for the final of the 800m at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham. In the final she finished in third position, running a new personal best of 2:01.35. [14] [15]
In May 2024 she ran a personal best 1:59.20 for the 800m at the British Milers Club race in Manchester. [16] She was selected to run the 800 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. [17] She came through her heat to reach the semi finals where she ran 1:59.89, her third quickest time ever, without qualifying for the final. [18] At the London Athletics Meet on 20 July 2024, she acted as pacemaker for the 800 metres in which Keely Hodgkinson set a new British national record time of 1:54.61, and Jemma Reekie moved to second on the all-time British list and Georgia Bell to fourth. [19]
She finished fourth in the 800 metres race at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025. [20] She was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn. [21]
