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"Dwain Anthony Chambers" is a British track and field/track Sprint (running)/sprinter. He has won international medals at World and European level and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of athletics (sport)/athletics. His primary event is the 100 metres, in which he has the fourth fastest time by a British sprinter. He is the European records in athletics/European record holder for the 60 metres and 4×100 metres relay events with 6.42 seconds and 37.73 s respectively. He received a two-year athletics ban in 2003 after testing positive for Tetrahydrogestrinone/THG, a banned performance-enhancing drug.

Chambers ran a 100 m List of world junior records in athletics/world junior record of 10.06 s in 1997 and became the youngest ever world medallist in the event at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics/1999 World Championships, taking the bronze. On his Olympic Games/Olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics/2000 Sydney Olympics he was the best European performer in fourth place. He broke the 10-second barrier twice at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics/2001 World Championships. He began using performance-enhancing drugs in 2002 and he was later stripped of the 100 m European title and record he achieved that year.