Callum Watson (born 6 October 1989) is an Australian

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

. He represented Australia at the

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international ...

in Sochi,

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. He also competed in the 2015 world championships in

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, Sweden. In 2014, Watson recorded a VO₂ max of 89.6ml/kg/min at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). This broke the record for AIS athletes previously held by

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. His older sister Aimee Watson also represented Australia in

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreatio ...

at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Competition record

References

1989 births Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic cross-country skiers for Australia Australian male cross-country skiers Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade 21st-century Australian people Skiers from Sydney Sportsmen from New South Wales {{Australia-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub