Key facts
- Nationality
- British (English)
- Born
- ( 1978-04-05 ) 5 April 1978 (age 48) , London, England
- Height
- 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
- Weight
- 183 lb (83 kg)
- Sport
- Men's athletics
- Event s
- 100 metres, 60 metres
- Club
- Belgrave Harriers
- Personal best
- 9.97 s
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Chambers
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Sport
- sprinting
- Member of team
- Castleford Tigers
- Position played
- wide receiver
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Mass
- 83
- Image
- Dwain Chambers 07032009 Turin.JPG
- Height
- 180
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- Commons category
- Dwain Chambers
- date of birth
- 1978-04-05
- sports discipline competed in
- 100 metres
- name in native language
- Dwain Chambers
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Encyclopedic overview
Dwain Anthony Chambers (born 5 April 1978) is a British track sprinter. He has won international medals at World and European levels and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of athletics. His primary event is the 100 metres, with a best of 9.97 seconds, which ranks him equal 9th on the British all-time list. He is the former European record holder for the 60 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay events with 6.42 seconds and 37.73 s respectively.
Chambers ran a 100 m world junior record of 10.06 s in 1997 and became the youngest ever medalist in the event at the 1999 World Championships, taking the bronze. On his Olympic début at the 2000 Sydney Olympics he was the best European performer in fourth place. He broke the 10-second barrier twice at the 2001 World Championships. In 2003 he received a two-year athletics ban after testing positive for THG, a banned performance-enhancing drug and was stripped of the 100 m European title and record he achieved in 2002.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dwain Chambers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.