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Jamie Bowie

Jamie Bowie

Scottish athlete

Jamie Bowie (born 1 April 1989) is a Scottish track and field coach and former athlete who won a silver medal at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships as part of the Great Britain 4 × 400m Relay.

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Career

He was born in Inverness and first took part in athletics at primary school.[1] He was with Inverness Harriers for 13 years and was the first member of the club to win a world medal.[2] He left the club and joined Team East Lothian in November 2014, when Inverness Harriers were unable to agree to his request for them to pay part of the salary of his coach, Piotr Haczek.[3]

He was educated at Inverness Royal Academy[3] before commencing studies at Heriot Watt University, graduating with MA (Hons) in International Business Management and Languages degree and a winner of the Watt Club Medal for Languages in 2011.[4] After graduating he took on a part-time job as an athletics development officer in East Lothian.[5]

In the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships, competing for the Great Britain team he won gold with the 4 × 400m relay.[6]

He ran in the 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, and the team ran a season's best but finished fourth. UK Athletics selected him to receive support from the World Class Performance Programme for 2013–2014 because they judged him to have Olympic potential.[7]

On 18 January 2014, while competing at the Scottish National Open in Glasgow he set a personal best of recorded 47.09 seconds, which was the second-fastest time for Scottish men's indoor 400m.[8] On 15 February 2014, he lowered his personal best for 400 Metres on an indoor track to 46.58 seconds, when competing at a British Athletics Grand Prix in Birmingham.[9] He was then selected to run in the Great Britain 4 × 400m relay team at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, running the third leg and winning a silver medal.[10] He then went to Florida for a month for some intensive training before the Commonwealth Games.[11]

In August 2014, Bowie competed in the 4 × 400 m relay for Scotland team in the xx Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[1] The relay team finished fifth and set a new Scottish record.[12] Bowie later named his part in this as one of the highlights of his career.[13]

In January 2015, in the first international match of the British Athletics indoor season he ran in the individual 400m, winning the race with a time of 47.38 seconds.[14]

In August 2016 Bowie was appointed as Performance Manager for Scottish Gymnastics, and the following February he was named as team manager for the Scottish gymnastics team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.[13] In April 2017 he announced his retirement from competition. He has continued to be involved with athletics as a coach with Team East Lothian,[3] where he has coached, among others, para-athlete Maria Lyle since 2017.[15]

References

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    "Athletics: Jamie Bowie: biography". results.glasgow2014.com. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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    Durent, Jamie (5 December 2014). "Bowie resigns Inverness Harriers membership". The Inverness Courier. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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    Durent, Jamie (14 April 2017). "'I didn't feel I had any big targets left' - Inverness Commonwealth Games athlete Jamie Bowie on his early retirement". The Inverness Courier. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
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    "Heriot-Watt graduate selected for Team GB for world championships in Moscow" (Press release). Heriot Watt University. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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    Sutherland, Sandy (17 July 2013). "Athletics: Seven Scots in British team for Moscow". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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    Turnbull, Simon (18 July 2011). "Bleasdale and Okoye lead junior charge as Britain land six golds". The Independent. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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    "'World-class' cash boost for 12 Scottish athletes". BBC News. 14 October 2013.
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    "National Open: Jamie Bowie sets new personal best at 400m". BBC News. 19 January 2014.
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    "Jamie Bowie". The Power of 10. UK Athletics. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  10. [10]
    "World Indoor relay hero Jamie Bowie enjoys taste of silver". BBC News. 10 March 2014.
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    Bowie, Jamie (3 March 2014). "USA bound as indoor season ends". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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    "Bowie helps to set new Scottish record". The Inverness Courier. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
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    "Scottish Stars to Lead Next Generation at Gold Coast 2018". Commonwealth Games Scotland. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  14. [14]
    Woods, Mark (25 January 2015). "Scots athlete Jamie Bowie powers to 400 metres victory by scraping past Great Britain captain on the home straight". Daily Record. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  15. [15]
    Barden, Katy (28 December 2020). "'Para coaching has made me a better coach' – Jamie Bowie". Scottish Athletics. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
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