Richard Kilty
Kilty at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
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| Nickname(s) | Teesside Tornado | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 September 1989 , England |
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| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 60m, 100m, 200m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 200 m: 20.34 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2013) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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60 m: 6.49 (Sopot 2014)
100 m: 10.01 (Hexham 2016)
Richard Kilty (born 2 September 1989) is a British track and field sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres. His personal bests for the events are 6.49 seconds, 10.01 seconds and 20.34 seconds, respectively. Coached for several years by 1992 Olympic 100 m champion Linford Christie, Kilty switched to Rana Reider in late 2013, when the American coach was recruited by UK Athletics. He is the 2014 World, and 2015 and 2017 European Indoor 60m champion. He also gained numerous British national sprint titles, including UK junior 100m champion and two-time English Schools national 100 metres champion, during his years at Northfield School and Sports College. On the British club-level, he represents Gateshead Harriers, which is the major track club in his native northeast England.
Nicknamed "The Teesside Tornado" he was ranked first in Great Britain over 200 m in the u23 age group in 2011, with a time of 20.53 seconds. He won a silver at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships with the British 4×100 metres relay team. For the majority of 2011 he was without a coach and not funded, but he achieved personal bests in the 100 and 200 m. Kilty was left off Great Britain's athletics team for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, despite having met the qualifying standard. He set his 100m personal best of 10.10 (with no wind) in August 2013 at the European athletics permit meeting in Hexham, UK.
After winning the 2014 World indoor sprint title, Kilty spoke to BBC News in mid-March about his family's dire financial conditions when he was young. Kilty broke the aged-12 UK record for 60m in 2001 and since then competed for Great Britain throughout the youth levels. "It's been a crazy journey. I actually won my first national title [in 2001] whilst living in a homeless hostel," he said, sharing a one bedroom flat with his parents and 4 brothers and sisters. His father, Kevin Kilty, is Richard's strongest supporter and was himself a 10.8 sprinter in his youth before turning to bodybuilding and later becoming a bodyguard (according to an April 2012 interview with Athletics Weekly.)
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