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.[4] 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.[5] She represented Scotland in the Bahamas at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, winning gold in the 1500m metres.[6]
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 Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows in Manchester.[12][13]
In May 2024 she ran a personal best 1:59.20 for the 800m at the British Milers Club race in Manchester.[16] She was selected to run the 800 metres for Britain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[17] 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.[18] 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.[19]
References
^"Erin Wallace". World Arhletics. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
