Callum Robert Hawkins was born on 22 June 1992 and is a British distance runner, who competed in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
17 Facts About Callum Hawkins
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Callum Hawkins is the Scottish record holder in the marathon and the British all-time number three at that distance behind Mo Farah and Steve Jones.
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Callum Hawkins is the Great Scottish Run course record holder and was the first British man to win that event in 23 years.
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Callum Hawkins was born on 22 June 1992 in Elderslie near Paisley.
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Callum Hawkins has two elder brothers, Scott and Derek, the latter of whom is an international distance runner.
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Between 2010 and 2012 Callum Hawkins competed for the Butler University in the United States, earning all-American status, and winning the 2011 Men's Athlete of the Year award for the Great Lakes Region.
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Callum Hawkins was the first athlete from the Butler University to win the award.
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At the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Callum Hawkins finished 47th in the junior men's race in a time of 24 minutes and 21 seconds.
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Callum Hawkins competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Scotland, representing the host nation in the men's 10,000 metres, finishing 20th.
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At the 2016 London Marathon, his second event over the distance, Callum Hawkins finished eighth overall, and was the first British-qualified athlete to finish, in a time of two hours 10 minutes and 52 seconds.
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Callum Hawkins was joined in the men's marathon by fellow British athletes, Tsegai Tewelde and his brother Derek Hawkins.
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Callum Hawkins finished ninth in the marathon at the 2016 Olympics in a time of 2:11:52.
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In fact Callum Hawkins was 2nd in this race overall - Callum Hawkins had put in a strong performance to lead for most of the race, but was out-sprinted by Leonard Korir in the final straight.
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In February 2017 Callum Hawkins won the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon in Japan, in 60:00, setting a new Scottish half-marathon record.
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Callum Hawkins competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia, and collapsed near the finish while leading, from heat exhaustion in 30 degree heat.
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Callum Hawkins came fourth in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, the same placing as in 2017.
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Callum Hawkins competed in the men's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.