Erin Wallace
Scottish middle-distance runner (born 2000)
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Erin Wallace (born 18 May 2000) is a Scottish triathlete and middle distance runner.[1]
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| Born | 18 May 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain (Scotland) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics, Triathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Middle-distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 800m: 1:59.19 (2024) 1500 m: 4:01.10 (2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
Wallace attended school at Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire.[2] Wallace studied neuroscience at the University of Glasgow.[3]
Career
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]
Wallace 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] In September, she was nominated at the Scottish Sports Award for Young Athlete of the Year.[11]
Wallace was a European U23 Championships bronze medallist in 2021 in Tallinn over 1500 metres.[12] In February 2022, Wallace was runner-up at the British Indoor Athletics Championships in the 1500 metres. 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.[13][14]
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.[15][16] In May 2024 she ran a personal best 1:59.20 for the 800m at the British Milers Club race in Manchester.[17] She was selected to run the 800 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[18] 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.[19] 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.[20]
Wallace finished fourth in the 800 metres race at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 23 February 2025.[21] She was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn.[22] She placed ninth in the 800 metres at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event in China on 3 May 2025.[23] The following month she lowered her 1500 metres personal best to 4:02.74 whilst racing in France.[24] On 3 August, she placed fourth in the 1500 metres at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham.[25][26][27] In September 2025, she competed over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the semi-finals.[28][29]
On 3 February 2026, Wallace lowered her indoor personal best for the 1500 metres to 4:07.73 at the Golden Gala in Ostrava.[30] Later that month, she placed sixth in the final of the 1500 metres at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham.[31] On 1 March in Glasgow, Wallace went inside the British Athletics qualifying time for the World Indoors with 4:04.20 for the 1500m.[32] In May, she competed in Poland, and ran 4:04.01 for second place in the 1500m behind home runner Klaudia Kazimierska at the Irena Szewińska Memorial and on 7 June, she had a top-three finish in 4:02.87 in the 1500 m at the 2026 Bauhausgalan in Stockholm.[33][34] In June, she placed fourth in the final of the 1500 metres at the 2026 UK Championships.[35][36]
Wallace was named in the Scottish team for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, reaching the semi-finals of the 800 metres.[37][38] She also competed in the women's mile at the Games.[39]
