Dwain Chambers' Jamaican Comeback

British sprinter here for training stint with Mills

Observer Reporter
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Dwain Chambers
British sprinter Dwain Chambers, the 2002 European champion and the 1999 World Championships bronze medallist in the 100 metres, will have a Jamaican coach.

A source told the Observer that Chambers is expected in the island today to join the camp of one of Jamaica’s finest sprint coaches, Glen Mills.

Mills, meanwhile, placed Chambers’ visit in context: "His father lives here and he’s going to be here on holidays for a couple of weeks, where he will do some training with us to stay in shape.

“We have not had any coaching agreement at this time. We met in London and it was asked if he could train with me while here. If he likes it and wants to come back on a long term basis, then fine.”

Chambers, 27, will have as training partners Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Aleen Bailey, and Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis.

Banned by UK Athletics in October 2003 Chambers comes to Jamaica seeking to resuscitate his sprinting career.

Korchemny, along with BALCO lab founder Victor Conte, vice-president James Valente and Greg Anderson, were all scheduled to be sentenced next month.

In the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Paris on September 14, 2002, Chambers clocked a personal best 9.87 seconds to share the European world record with Linford Christie.

It was in that race that American Tim Montgomery clocked a world record 9.78 seconds, which Jamaica’s Asafa Powell broke on June 14 of this year in Athens with 9.77.

Chambers had an IAAF ranking of number three in 2002 and number five in 2003.

He was the World Junior record-holder in the 100 metres with 10.06, until Trinidad & Tobago’s Darrel Brown lowered the mark to 10.01 in the quarter-finals at the 2003 World Championships.

But Chambers still holds the European junior world record.
At that 2003 World Championships, he was disqualified in the final of the 100 metres after clocking 10.08 seconds.

I really like that ;-))))

Besides that - interesting news, anyhow. I hope he’ll come back.

Good luck Dwain, I hope he returns to his best, but it will be hard with the long break if he hasn’t kept training. I think he was far too muscular when he was last competing. Some weight loss (muscle) will do him good.

yeah i too agree, that he was far too muscular and big when he was sprinting in 2003. His physic from 2001 was great, and 2002. He ahs always been a big guy like.

Its all about being functional, and efficant sprinting.

I like Dwain Chambers, and he was one fo the very few british sprinters that i looked up to.
I hope he comes back, and enjoys it.

Am happy he is training with Kim Collins, i read on the internet that they are good friends. Chambers used to drive Collins around london, when Collins came to compete.

I also like Kim Collins, am very interested, in him.

Yes good luck to Dwain, he’s from our “ends” in London. I hope he pulls through. I watched his training group doing their sessions on numerous occassions. He had the most ridiculous hamstring development I had ever seen on a sprinter, those bad boys were like two generators hitching a ride on his legs!!. To be fair, he looks bigger on TV in comparison to other sprinters but in the flesh the guy was very very lean and did not look big.

While Dwain was huge, didn’t he still run great times with so much muscle? Did his times get better as his size increased?

As a general rule I think that if you are training for track and doing tempo and SE the level of hypothrophy you can achieve will generally be optimal for you as your body has to spread the cost benefit ratio across all the components and doesn’t “select” one component as more important (unless you are doing much more of one component that another - which isn’t ususally the case in terms of lifting for a sprinter). So perhaps for Dwain the extra muscle mass helped him? Comments…

In the year he got banned he wasn’t asfast as the year before, and he looked la lot heavier. I read somewhere that he had a 60m race against a bodybuilder, who had claimed to be the fastest man in the world, there were suggestions that Dwain was into bodybuilding, and was maybe doing bodybuilding weightraining instead of sprint specific.

That was against Kevin Levorone?. He had moved to San Francisco(?) if I remember clearly, to train with Korchemeny. I doubt if he was doing BB training, Dwain was known for hating special/speed endurance and any type of training that created the “burns” feeling and BB is full of failure reps. Besides I think he knew by then that any extra mass was detrimental.

Athletics

The Times October 01, 2005

Chambers seeks new coach for comeback
By David Powell, Athletics Correspondent

DWAIN CHAMBERS has signalled his intention to return to competition after his two-year drugs ban ends next month by going to Jamaica to train temporarily under Glen Mills, the coach of Kim Collins, the Commonwealth Games and former world 100 metres champion. Mills has told Chambers, Britain’s European 100 metres champion, that he would be willing to discuss a long-term deal.
Chambers, who was suspended in 2003, is understood to have resisted approaches from at least two British coaches. He plans to return during the indoor season, with a view to defending his European title next summer. He is banned for life from the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.

Sources close to Chambers say that his determination is clear and that he has trimmed down from 94kg to 86kg

Although John Trower, Britain’s senior performance manager for sprints, said yesterday that he was in the dark over Chambers’ plans to find a new coach, the athlete was believed to be either in Jamaica or on his way there.

Remi Korchemny is Chambers’ former coach.