Dwain Chambers

Dwain Chambers ( Dwain Anthony Chambers, born April 5, 1978 at the London Borough of Islington ) is a British track and field athlete and American football player. His specialisms are the 100 - meter dash and the 4 x 100 - meter relay.

Life

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

At the European Championships in Munich in 2002, he won the 100 -meter run before Francis Obikwelu and with the British 4 x 100 - meter relay gold. He was then elected to the European Athlete of the Year. A year later he won at the World Championships with the relay bronze. Because of his doping offense all the medals of 2002/ 03 were withdrawn subsequently.

In October 2003, Chambers tested positive for the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone. After a hearing on 22 February 2004, the British Athletics Federation detained him for two years. The IAAF also nullified his every mileages between 1 January 2002 and 1 August 2003 including the leveling of the Europa cup record of Linford Christie on 14 September 2002. Chambers' coach Remi Korchemny was at the Bay Area Laboratory Co - Operative ( BALCO ) involved; against this company ran in the United States because of a criminal investigation into illegal trafficking of doping substances. During his doping suspension, he tried to establish himself as American Footballer foot. In the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League, he was not included in the team. Another attempt took place between March 9, 2007 at the tryouts of the NFL Europe on 5. There he was engaged by the Hamburg Sea Devils.

But Chambers returned to the track. At the European Championships in 2006 he was the first time a major incident at the start. He reached the final of the 100 meters and won the British 4 x 100 - meter relay the European title. At the World Indoor Championships 2008, he won silver over 60 meters.

At the European Indoor Championships 2009 in Turin Chambers was already in the semifinals over 60 meters with 6.42 s European record, where he remained only three hundredths of a second behind the world indoor record. With this performance, he improved the four -year-old European indoor record of the Frenchman Ronald Pognon by three hundredths of a second and is therefore in the eternal world leaderboard in third place (as of September 2009). The European Cup final was won by Chambers in 6.46 s and a clear margin.

Even after Chambers was successful especially in the winter. In 2010, he won gold at the World Indoor Championships 2011 Silver at the European Indoor Championships and bronze at the 2012 World Indoor Championships. At the Olympic Games in London, he retired in the semifinals.

Dwain Chambers is 1,80 m tall and weighs 83 kg.