Christian Malcolm

Christian Malcolm at the 2007 World Championships

Christian Malcolm (born June 3, 1979 in Cardiff ) is a former British sprinter and today's athletics coach.

Christian Malcolm won the European Junior Championships in 1997 in the 200-meter run and in the 4 x 100-meter relay , and he also took silver in the 100-meter run . The following year he won the 100 and 200 meter World Junior Championships. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games , Malcolm won silver behind Julian Golding in 20.29 s and finished fourth with the Welsh relay, missing the bronze medal by 0.04 seconds. In 1999 he won relay gold at the U23 European Championships and two silver medals on the individual routes.

In 2000 Malcolm won the European Indoor Championships in Ghent in the 200-meter run in 20.54 s. At the Olympic Games in Sydney he reached the 200-meter final and finished fifth in 20.23 s, 0.03 seconds behind the bronze medal. At the World Indoor Championships in 2001 in Lisbon, Malcolm won silver in 20.76 s behind the American Shawn Crawford in 20.63 s. Outdoors, Malcolm reached the finals on both sprint distances at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. Over 100 meters he was seventh in 10.11 s and over 200 meters he was fifth in 20.22 s. Seventh place over 100 meters was changed to six years later after Tim Montgomery was disqualified .

In 2002 he lost at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna in 20.65 s by 0.01 seconds against Marcin Urbaś from Poland . At the Commonwealth Games in 2002 , he finished eighth in the 200-meter run. A fortnight later, he missed the bronze medal over 200 meters at the European Championships in Munich in fourth by 0.06 seconds. The British season in the cast Malcolm, Darren Campbell , Marlon Devonish and Dwain Chambers won the season finale. This medal was subsequently withdrawn from the relay because Chambers was retrospectively suspended for doping. The ban for Chambers spanned the years 2002 and 2003, so that the British relay was also stripped of the silver medal at the 2003 World Championships , in which it competed with the same line-up as in Munich 2002.

After Malcolm was eliminated at the Olympic Games in Athens in the 200-meter semi-finals, he won bronze at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 with Jason Gardener , Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis . He also achieved relay bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. The season in the cast Malcolm, Craig Pickering , Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis missed silver by a hundredth of a second in 37.90 s.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he was fifth over 200 m. Over the same distance he won silver at the European Championships in Barcelona and reached the semi-finals at the 2011 World Championships .

Malcolm has been a coach since the end of his active career. After he had succeeded together with Benke Blomkvist and Stephen Maguire, the British 4 x 100 meters relay men in the World Championships in Athletics in 2017 to lead Gold , the trio in December 2017 became the British Coach of the Year chosen .

Christian Malcolm is 1.74 m tall and weighs 67 kg.

Best times

• 50 m (Halle): 5.81 s, February 24, 2002, Liévin
• 60 m (hall): 6.64 s, 11 February 2001, Cardiff
• 100 m: 10.11 s, August 5, 2001, Edmonton
• 200 m: 20.08 s, August 8, 2001, Edmonton
  • Hall: 20.54 s, February 26, 2000, Ghent

Web links

Commons : Christian Malcolm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian Malcolm in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on The Power of Ten
• Christian Malcolm in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017: Coach award for sprint trio Blomkvist, Malcolm & Maguire. BBC, December 17, 2017, accessed December 17, 2018.