Since being discovered by his head teacher, Jamie Baulch has not looked back, and he had a highly successful sporting career spanning over 10 years.
Jamie’s early sporting success emerged at a young age whilst competing in the Welsh National trampoline championships where he won a silver medal. His natural ability was there to be seen at such an early age excelling at all sports. However, Jamie’s greatest love and appeal came in the way of athletics, his natural running ability being something he could not simply overlook. It was not long before Jamie began to dedicate his life towards achieving his goals and targets and becoming a track and field star. Early success came at the 1992 World junior championships where Jamie was part of the 4x100 gold medal winning relay team.
The success at junior level proved to be vital ingredient to Jamie’s development to becoming one of the world’s top athletes. Jamie has had numerous successes on the track ranging from Olympic Silver in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics to becoming world indoor 400m champion in 1999 also winning a bronze medal at the 2003 championships a remarkable achievement. Jamie has represented Great Britain in two successive Olympic Games.
Jamie’s medal tally at major events makes for very impressive reading:
1 Olympic games Medal.
5 World Championship medals.
2 European Championship medals.
2 Commonwealth Games Medals.
Jamie’s appetite for success was there to be seen throughout his sporting career, and since retiring in 2004 Jamie has continued his success in the business world and currently runs three of his own companies, OneVision Executive , Powergoldberg and Super Schools Wales.
Jamie’s charismatic personality has often proved its worth off the track as well as on it, with him appearing on television on shows such as ‘A Question of Sport’, ‘Richard and Judy’, ‘They Think It’s All Over’, ‘Ant and Dec’, ‘The Big Breakfast’, ‘The Saturday Show’ and ‘Blue Peter, to name but a few. He featured greatly in the 2003 and 2004 BBCSuperstars and took part in ‘Cirque De Celebrite’ on Sky One and ‘Safari School’ on BBC1. Jamie also featured in BBC1’s ‘Let’s Dance’ for Sport Relief in 2010. In June 2010 Jamie also took part in one of his toughest challenges yet, pitting himself against a thoroughbred racehorse in the world's first one hundred metre Man versus Horse race at Kempton Park.