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Erin Wallace

Scottish athletics competitor and triathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ124615837
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Erin Wallace (born 18 May 2000) is a Scottish triathlete and middle distance runner.

Early life

Wallace attended school at Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire. Wallace studied neuroscience at the University of Glasgow.

Career

Wallace won age-group won Scottish cross-country titles in 2014 and 2015. She broke the UK under-17 indoor 800 metres record with 2:06.59 in 2016, also set Scottish indoor records over 1500m and 3000m with 4:25.75 and 9:36.07, which placed her second and third all-time in the UK for the respective distances. Later that year she was a 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships bronze medallist in Tbilisi in 2016, over 1500 metres. She became a British international in January 2017 at the Great Edinburgh International. She represented Scotland in the Bahamas at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, winning gold in the 1500m metres.

Wallace made her senior Commonwealth Games debut at the Gold Coast in 2018, competing in the Triathlon mixed team relay event, finishing in 7th place. That year, she won silver in Gold Coast in the World Triathlon Junior Women's Grand Final in 2017.

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