Luke Caldwell (born 2 August 1991) is a Scottish long distance runner.

Career

Caldwell competed at the

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achieving 13th place in the 5000m and 14th in the 10,000m. A year later, he achieved his personal best of 28:29.61 minutes for the 10,000m at the 2015 Payton Jordan Invitational in

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, California. However, he has not yet beaten his personal best in the 5000m of 13:29.94 which he achieved in the 2013 Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in Palo Alto, California.

Personal life

In 2012, Caldwell obtained a physics degree from

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and then went on to study at the

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, Albuquerque. By 2015, he had moved to western London to work as a science teacher and concentrate on athletics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caldwell, Luke 1991 births Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Scottish male long-distance runners British male long-distance runners Commonwealth Games athletes for Scotland Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century Scottish sportsmen