Lambert made a big breakthrough in 1999 when topping the world junior rankings for 200m with 20.63.
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The previous two years he hadn’t even won the English Schools’ title, settling for PBs and silver medals on each occasion, but he was to go one better in that successful ’99 campaign that also produced AAA 200m titles in both winter and summer.
He also took bronze at the European Juniors and continued his good form into 2000 with a UK record of 6.42 in the rarely-run 55m indoor event.
Although more noted for his 200m form, Lambert enjoyed more success in the 100m in 2001 with bronze at the World Student Games and clocked a PB of 10.19 – albeit wind-assisted – in 2002. Over the longer sprint, he was in excellent form at the Commonwealth Games Trials where he clocked 20.37 in his heat and was not much slower when second in the final, but illness at the Games in Manchester saw him eliminated in the semi-finals.
He could hardly have asked for 2003 to go better as he took the AAA U23 title and then clocked a PB of 20.34 for European U23 gold which was followed by a 4x100m success.
Chris enjoyed an uninterrrupted start to the 2004 season with an undefeated 100m/200m doulbes in France. He convincingly won at the AAA's and Olympic Trials in Manchester and rounded off his preparations with a fine victory at Crystal Palace. However, his pre-Olympic plans were disrupted with a minor recurrence of an old hamstring, eventually forcing him out of the heats in Athens.
2005 saw him make the decision to join Tony Lester's sprint squad but Chris's hopes of Gold at the European Indoor Championships where hit when he again suffered problems with his back and stomach, eventually leading to a double hernia operation.
In 2006 he finally made his comback from injury and he is very much focused on making the British sprint team.
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