Dwain Chambers

Dwain Chambers
Dwain Chambers after winning the 2010 World Indoor Championships
Full name	Dwain Anthony Chambers
nation	United Kingdom of England (at the Commonwealth Games)
birthday	April 5th 1978
place of birth	London ,  UK
size	180 cm
Weight	83 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.97 s ( 100 m ) 20.31 s ( 200 m )
society	Belgrave Harriers
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Indoor world championships 1 × 1 × 1 × Relay World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Junior European Championships 4 × 0 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver Seville 1999 4 × 100 m bronze Seville 1999 100 m Indoor world championships gold Doha 2010 60 m silver Valencia 2008 60 m bronze Istanbul 2012 60 m Relay World Championships silver Nassau 2014 4 × 100 m European championships gold Gothenburg 2006 4 × 100 m silver Budapest 1998 100 m European Indoor Championships gold Turin 2009 60 m silver Paris 2011 60 m Junior European Championships gold Nyíregyháza 1995 100 m gold Nyíregyháza 1995 4 × 100 m gold Ljubljana 1997 100 m gold Ljubljana 1997 4 × 100 m Commonwealth Games gold Kuala Lumpur 1998 4 × 100 m
last change: February 12, 2017

Dwain Chambers ( Dwain Anthony Chambers ; born April 5, 1978 in the London Borough of Islington ) is a retired British athlete and American football player . His special disciplines were the 100-meter run and the 4-by-100-meter relay .

biography

Chambers first attracted attention in 1995 when he became Junior European Champion over 100 meters. He repeated this success in 1997, and at the same time ran a new junior world record with 10.06 s. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1998 , he won the silver medal behind his compatriot Darren Campbell . A year later, at the 1999 World Championships in Seville , he finished second in the relay. He was the final runner and together with Jason Gardener , Darren Campbell and Marlon Devonish set a European record with 37.73 s.

At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , he won gold in the 100-meter run ahead of Francis Obikwelu and with the British 4-by-100-meter relay. He was then voted Europe's athlete of the year . A year later he won bronze at the World Championships with the relay. Because of his doping offenses , all medals from 2002/03 were subsequently revoked.

In October 2003, Chambers tested positive for the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone . After a hearing on February 22, 2004, the British Athletics Federation banned him for two years. The IAAF also canceled all of his running performances between January 1, 2002 and August 1, 2003, including equalizing Linford Christie's European record on September 14, 2002. Chambers' trainer Remi Korchemny was involved in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) ; This company was under criminal investigation in the USA for the illegal trade in doping substances. During his doping ban, he tried to gain a foothold as an American footballer . In the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League , however, he was not accepted into the team. Another attempt took place at the tryouts of the NFL Europe from March 5-9, 2007. There he was hired by the Hamburg Sea Devils .

Chambers returned, however, to athletics. At the European Championships in 2006 he was at the start again in a major event. He reached the final over 100 meters and won the European championship with the British 4 x 100 meter relay. At the World Indoor Championships in 2008 , he won silver over 60 meters.

Dwain Chambers 2008

At the European Indoor Championships in Turin in 2009 , Chambers already ran in the semifinals over 60 meters with 6.42 s European record, where he was only three hundredths of a second behind the indoor world record. With this achievement he improved the four-year-old indoor European record of the Frenchman Ronald Pognon by three hundredths of a second and is thus in third place in the all-time world best list (as of September 2009). Chambers won the European Championship final in 6.46 s by a clear margin.

Even after that, Chambers was particularly successful in winter. In 2010 he won gold at the World Indoor Championships , 2011 silver at the European Indoor Championships and 2012 bronze at the World Indoor Championships . At the Olympic Games in London he was eliminated in the semifinals. At the beginning of the 2017 World Championships, he announced his resignation.

Dwain Chambers is 1.80 m tall and weighs 83 kg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Mo Farah wins election - Robert Harting fifth , www.leichtathletik.de October 5, 2012
2. ↑ Chambers Took 300 Drugs Doping Cocktail , World Online March 3, 2009

Web links

Commons : Dwain Chambers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dwain Chambers in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Dwain Chambers in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )