Erin Wallace

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.

She 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.

She finished seventh at the World Athletics U20 Championships over 1500 metres in Tampere in 2018.

She was a European U23 Championships bronze medallist in 2021 in Tallinn over 1500 metres.

She was runner-up at the British Indoor Athletics Championships in the 1500 metres in February 2022. However, a stress fracture in her foot caused her to miss the outdoor season that year. For 2023, she changed her coaching set-up to train with Jenny Meadows in Manchester.

On 17 February 2024, she qualified for the final of the 800m at the 2024 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham. In the final she finished in third position, running a new personal best of 2:01.35.

In May 2024 she ran a personal best 1:59.20 for the 800m at the British Milers Club race in Manchester. She was selected to run the 800 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. She came through her heat to reach the semi finals where she ran 1:59.89, her third quickest time ever, without qualifying for the final. At the London Athletics Meet on 20 July 2024, she acted as pacemaker for the 800 metres in which Keely Hodgkinson set a new British national record time of 1:54.61, and Jemma Reekie moved to second on the all-time British list and Georgia Bell to fourth.