| Erin Wallace | |
| Birth Date: | 18 May 2000 |
| Country: | Great Britain Scotland |
| Sport: | Athletics, Triathlon |
| Event: | 800 metres, 1500 metres |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
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 Jenny Meadows in Manchester.[12]
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.[13] [14]
In May 2024 she ran a personal best 1:59.20 for the 800m at the British Milers Club race in Manchester.[15] She was selected to run the 800 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[16] 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.[17] 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.[18]