{{Short description|Scottish athlete (born 1989)}} {{EngvarB|date=October 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox sportsperson | image= Jamie Bowie Sopot 2014.jpg | image_size=220px | caption= Jamie Bowie competing at 2014 Sopot | name = Jamie Bowie | nickname = | fullname = | nationality = Scottish | sport = Track and field | event = 400 m, 4 × 400m Relay | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1989|4|1}} | birth_place = Inverness | residence = | height = {{convert|182|cm|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight ={{convert|69|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | country = {{SCO}} <br> {{GBR2}} | collegeteam = | club = | coach = Piotr Haczek | pb = {{plainlist| *'''400 m''': 46.58 (Birmingham 2014) *'''400 m''': 46.06 (Ninove, BEL 2013) }} | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's athletics}} {{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}} }} {{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2014 Sopot|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalCompetition|European U23 Championships}} {{MedalGold|2011 Ostrava|4×400 m relay}} }}
'''Jamie Bowie''' (born 1 April 1989) is a Scottish track and field coach and former 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.<ref name="Glasgow 2014" /> He was with Inverness Harriers for 13 years and was the first member of the club to win a world medal.<ref name="IC Dec2014">{{cite news |url=http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Other-Sport/Bowie-resigns-Inverness-Harriers-membership-04122014.htm |title=Bowie resigns Inverness Harriers membership |first=Jamie |last=Durent |work=The Inverness Courier |date=5 December 2014 |accessdate=18 April 2017 |archive-date=19 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419102206/http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Other-Sport/Bowie-resigns-Inverness-Harriers-membership-04122014.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He left the club and joined Team East Lothian in November 2014, when Inverness Harriers were unable to agree to his request for them to pay part of the salary of his coach, Piotr Haczek.<ref name=retire />
He was educated at Inverness Royal Academy<ref name=retire /> before commencing studies at Heriot Watt University, graduating with MA (Hons) in International Business Management and Languages degree and a winner of the Watt Club Medal for Languages in 2011.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.hw.ac.uk/news/heriot-watt-graduate-selected-team-gb-world-12915.htm |title=Heriot-Watt graduate selected for Team GB for world championships in Moscow |publisher=Heriot Watt University |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=24 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128114618/http://www.hw.ac.uk/news/heriot-watt-graduate-selected-team-gb-world-12915.htm |archivedate=28 January 2015 }}</ref> After graduating he took on a part-time job as an athletics development officer in East Lothian.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/more-sport/athletics/athletics-seven-scots-in-british-team-for-moscow-1-3003986 |title=Athletics: Seven Scots in British team for Moscow |first=Sandy |last=Sutherland |work=The Scotsman |publisher=Johnston Press |date=17 July 2013|accessdate=24 January 2015}}</ref>
In the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships, competing for the Great Britain team he won gold with the 4 × 400m relay.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/bleasdale-and-okoye-lead-junior-charge-as-britain-land-six-golds-2315472.html |title=Bleasdale and Okoye lead junior charge as Britain land six golds |first=Simon |last=Turnbull |work=The Independent |date=18 July 2011|accessdate=24 January 2015}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/24520022 |title='World-class' cash boost for 12 Scottish athletes |publisher=BBC News |date=14 October 2013}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/25800719 |title=National Open: Jamie Bowie sets new personal best at 400m |publisher=BBC News |date=19 January 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref name="powerof10">{{cite web |url=http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=31903 |title= Jamie Bowie |work=The Power of 10 |publisher=UK Athletics |accessdate=24 January 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/26515540 |title=World Indoor relay hero Jamie Bowie enjoys taste of silver |publisher=BBC News |date=10 March 2014}}</ref> He then went to Florida for a month for some intensive training before the Commonwealth Games.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/more-sport/athletics/jamie-bowie-usa-bound-as-indoor-season-ends-1-3326045 |title=USA bound as indoor season ends |first=Jamie|last=Bowie |work=The Scotsman |publisher=Johnston Press |date=3 March 2014|accessdate=24 January 2015}}</ref>
In August 2014, Bowie competed in the 4 × 400 m relay for Scotland team in the xx Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<ref name="Glasgow 2014">{{cite web |url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/athletics/1031506/j_bowie.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150125002115/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/athletics/1031506/j_bowie.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=25 January 2015 |title=Athletics: Jamie Bowie: biography |publisher=results.glasgow2014.com |accessdate=24 January 2015}}</ref> The relay team finished fifth and set a new Scottish record.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Other-Sport/Bowie-helps-to-set-new-Scottish-record-04082014.htm |title=Bowie helps to set new Scottish record |work=The Inverness Courier |date=5 August 2014 |accessdate=7 January 2018 |archive-date=7 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107233017/http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Other-Sport/Bowie-helps-to-set-new-Scottish-record-04082014.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bowie later named his part in this as one of the highlights of his career.<ref name=gymnastics />
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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/scots-athlete-jamie-bowie-powers-5038971 |title=Scots athlete Jamie Bowie powers to 400 metres victory by scraping past Great Britain captain on the home straight |first=Mark |last=Woods |work=Daily Record |date=25 January 2015 |accessdate=26 January 2015}}</ref>
In August 2016 Bowie was appointed as Performance Manager for Scottish Gymnastics, and the following February he was named as team manager for the Scottish gymnastics team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.<ref name=gymnastics>{{cite web |url=https://www.teamscotland.scot/2017/scottish-stars-to-lead-next-generation-at-gold-coast-2018/ |title=Scottish Stars to Lead Next Generation at Gold Coast 2018 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=9 February 2017 |website=Commonwealth Games Scotland |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref> In April 2017 he announced his retirement from competition. He has continued to be involved with athletics as a coach with Team East Lothian,<ref name=retire>{{cite web |url=https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/sport/i-didnt-feel-i-had-any-big-targets-left-inverness-commonwealth-games-athlete-jamie-bowie-on-his-early-retirement-142961/ |title='I didn't feel I had any big targets left' - Inverness Commonwealth Games athlete Jamie Bowie on his early retirement |last=Durent |first=Jamie |date=14 April 2017 |website=The Inverness Courier|access-date=14 April 2017}}</ref> where he has coached, among others, para-athlete Maria Lyle since 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/jamie-bowie-and-para-coaching/ |title=‘Para coaching has made me a better coach’ – Jamie Bowie |last=Barden |first=Katy |date=28 December 2020 |website=Scottish Athletics|access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website| http://jamiebowie.com}} *{{World Athletics}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowie, Jamie}} Category:Living people Category:1989 births Category:Sportspeople from Inverness Category:Scottish men sprinters Category:British men sprinters Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for Scotland Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain Category:World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Category:British athletics coaches Category:Scottish sports coaches Category:21st-century Scottish sportsmen