country updated club highestranking birth_place weight imagesize height pb olympics worlds birth_date image article_title name turnedpro
great britain and england 9 april 2010 belgrave harriers 10 -lrb- feb 2005 -rrb- london , england 88 kg 150px 1.88 m '' -rrb- '' ' 100 m '' ' 10.19 w -lrb- ' 2002 -rrb- '' ' 200 m '' ' 20.34 -lrb- 100 2003 -rrb- m '' ' 10.24 -lrb- 1999 '' dnf ' 2004 '' ' 200m - 1st round '' dns ' 2005 '' ' 200m - 1st round 6 april 1981 chrislambert2.jpg chris lambert -lrb- athlete -rrb-
 chris lambert 2003
chris lambert -lrb- athlete -rrb-

christopher patrick lambert -lrb- born 6 april 1981 in dulwich , london -rrb- is a former professional sprinter from england .
he grew up in london going to school at oliver goldsmith 's primary school in camberwell and haberdashers ' aske 's hatcham college , before attending harvard university , where he was a member of the the phoenix -- s k club .
as a junior athlete in 1999 , lambert finished 3rd at the european junior championships and ran the fastest time in the world over 200m for an u20 athlete .
named captain of the great british junior team in 2000 , he was unable to compete for the majority of the season due to a hamstring injury but left the age group ranked 3rd on the national all-time list .
at harvard , lambert broke 5 college and 3 ivy league records -lrb- for the 60m , 100m and 200m -rrb- , winning 6 ivy league titles and finishing 4th in the 2003 ncaa men 's outdoor track and field championship , becoming an ncaa all-american .
on graduating and beginning a professional career , lambert won gold in a championship record time at the 2003 european athletics u23 championships .
he then became an olympian , securing selection to teamgb for the 2004 olympic games in athens , but due to injury he surrendered his place on the 4x100m relay team that went on to win the gold medal .
he claimed a silver medal at the 2005 european athletics indoor championships then in an injury-plagued career he was also selected for but had to withdraw from the 2002 european athletics championships , 2005 iaaf world championships in athletics and 2006 commonwealth games .
he finally retired in 2008 on suffering several stress fractures to the right tibia .
lambert is a keen football fan .
a lifelong arsenal supporter , he also plays every saturday for the graduate team of st anne 's college , oxford - the mga vets - in the wimbledon & district league .
