Jamie Bowie


Jamie Bowie is a Scottish track and field athlete who won a silver medal at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships as part of the Great Britain 4 × 400m Relay.

Career

He was born in Inverness and first took part in athletics at primary school. He was with Inverness Harriers for 13 years and was the first member of the club to win a world medal.
He studied at Heriot Watt University, graduating with MA in International Business Management and Languages degree and a winner of the Watt Club Medal for Languages in 2011. After graduating he took on a part-time job as an athletics development officer in East Lothian.
In the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships, competing for the Great Britain team he won gold with the 4 × 400m relay.
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.
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. 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. 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. He then went to Florida for a month for some intensive training before the Commonwealth Games.
In August 2014, Bowie competed in the 4 × 400 m relay for Scotland team in the xx Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The relay team finished fifth and set a new Scottish record.
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.