Austin Hamilton

Austin Hamilton
nation	Sweden
birthday	29th July 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Jamaica
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Öresund FK (until 2011) Malmö AI (since 2011)
Trainer	Roger Larsson, Maria Larsson Stefan Appel
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European Indoor Championships bronze Belgrade 2017 60 m  Junior European Championships gold Eskilstuna 2015 4 × 100 m
last change: May 18, 2020

Austin Hamilton (born July 29, 1997 ) is a Swedish athlete of Jamaican origin who specializes in sprinting .

Athletic career

Austin Hamilton gained his first international experience in 2014 when he made it to the semi-finals at the Junior World Championships in Eugene in the 100-meter run , where he was eliminated with 10.64 seconds. The following year he finished fifth in the European Junior Championships in Eskilstuna in 10.72 s and won the Swedish 4 x 100 meter relay in 39.73 s. In 2016 he retired from the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz over 100 meters with 10.47 s in the semifinals and then took part with the relay at the European Championships in Amsterdam , where he did not reach the final with 39.37 s. In 2017, at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , he won the bronze medal in the 60-meter run in 6.63 seconds behind the British Richard Kilty and Ján Volko from Slovakia. Then he came at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz in 10.40 s on the sixth place and could not finish his run with the relay.

In 2018 he qualified over 60 meters for the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where he was eliminated with 7.35 seconds in the lead. In the following year he reached the semi-finals at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and was eliminated there with 6.75 s before he finished eighth in 14.70 s at the U23 European Championships in Gävle .

In 2017, Hamilton was the Swedish champion in the 100-meter run and in 2018 the indoor champion over 60 meters. He also won in 2013 with the 4 x 200 meter relay indoors and in 2019 with the 4 x 100 meter relay outdoors.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 10.34 s (+1.5 m / s), July 13, 2017 in Bydgoszcz
  • 60 meters (hall): 6.62 s, February 16, 2019 in Norrköping
• 200 meters: 21.37 s (−1.4 m / s), 23 August 2015 in Kalmar
  • 200 meters (hall): 21.89 s, January 31, 2016 in Malmö

Web links

• Austin Hamilton in the database of World Athletics (English)