James Stephen Baulch was born on 3 May 1973 and is a retired Welsh sprint athlete and television presenter.
19 Facts About Jamie Baulch
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Jamie Baulch won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships.
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Jamie Baulch then changed his distance preference becoming a 400 metres specialist.
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Jamie Baulch particularly excelled at running the distance indoors.
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Jamie Baulch won the 400m gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in 1999, and claimed silver and bronze medals at the event in 1997 and 2003.
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In 1993 Jamie Baulch ran a Welsh record 46.50 at Sheffield in his first individual race at the distance since 1990, and he made a breakthrough in 1995 when he progressed to 45.14.
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In 1996 Jamie Baulch ran a 44.19 second leg for Britain's Olympic silver medal team that set a European record, and set his fifth Welsh record with 44.57.
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In 2000 Jamie Baulch won over 400m at the European Cup and had a season's best of 45.06, but had a disappointing Olympic Games, going out in the heats of the 400m in 46.52, although producing a final leg of 44.65 to ensure that Britain made the final of the relay.
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Jamie Baulch came back to form in 2003 with two bronze medals at the World Indoors, when he ran 45.99 to share the individual bronze medal with Paul McKee and in the relay.
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Jamie Baulch became part of a circus act on Cirque de celebrite.
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Jamie Baulch launched fundraising platform uWin, and silent auction hosting company, BidAid.
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Jamie Baulch is known to be actively involved with Jaguar Cars.
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From 2009- 2015 Jamie Baulch was an Ambassador for the Jaguar Academy of Sport, playing a key role in mentoring the next generation of British sporting talent.
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Jamie Baulch became a squad member for the Welsh touch rugby team in 2010 which won the European cup later that year.
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Jamie Baulch excelled as a trampolinist in his youth, and won a silver medal at the Welsh Schools Trampoline Championship in 1991.
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Jamie Baulch was born in Nottingham, but raised by adoptive parents in Risca, near Newport, Wales.
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Jamie Baulch is mixed race, his biological parents being a white English mother and a black Jamaican father.
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In 2014 Baulch made a TV documentary for the BBC, Being Jamie Baulch: Looking for My Birth Mum, where he tracked down and was reunited with his birth mother.
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Jamie Baulch then made a follow-up documentary for the BBC, Being Jamie Baulch: The Search for My Birth Dad, in 2016.