Douglas Walker (athlete)
Douglas Walker (born 28 July 1973 in Inverness ) is a former British sprinter, who was successful in the 200 - meter dash and the 4 x 100 - meter relay.
After Walker was starting for Scotland came at the Commonwealth Games in 1994 in Victoria about 200 m to the semifinals, he succeeded even at the World Athletics Championships in 1997 in Athens. With the British relay he reached the final. Darren Braithwaite Darren Campbell, Walker and Julian Golding won in 38.14 seconds behind the bronze relay races in the United States and Nigeria.
In 1998 he won at the European Athletics Championships in Budapest about 200 meters in 20.53 seconds ahead of his compatriots Douglas Turner and Golding. The next day won Allyn Condon, Campbell, Walker and Golding in 38.52 seconds and the title in the season. After the European Championships Walker had to undergo an arthroscopy of the knee joint. Nevertheless, he came four weeks after the European Championships at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, but was in the 200 -meter final in eighth in 20.69 seconds.
On the rare way past 300 - meter track he made on July 19, 1998 in Gateshead with 31.56 s on a Europabestzeit.
On 1 December 1998 Walker tested positive for nandrolone in a drug test. In 2000 was retroactively imposed a two -year ban against him.
Douglas Walker is 1,77 m tall and weighed 78 kg in its competition times.