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}} 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, 10.05 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 Indoor 60m champion. He also holds numerous British national sprint titles, including UK junior 100m champion and two-time English Schools national 100 metres champion.〔 On the British club-level, he represents Gateshead Harriers, which is the major track club in his native northeast England, in the region around the River Tees. During the 2012 Olympic year he had to suspend training twice because of a strained hamstring muscle- first in late February 2012 for a few weeks, and again in late June after the 200-meter Finals of the British National Championships. 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.〔(Richard Kilty ). Power of 10. Retrieved on 18 August 2012.〕 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. ==Early career== 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 (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''.) In July 2006, Kilty won the English Schools (national) Championship in 100 meters in the Intermediate age group (under 17) with a time of 11.0, when the championship was held in Gateshead. He repeated as champion at the Senior level (age 17–18) in July 2007, winning in 10.73. (Schoolboys are limited to a single event (plus a relay), because of the huge number of athletes who compete in the Championships each summer. ) Kilty was then named as a captain of the GB team at the 2008 IAAF World Juniors in Bydgoszcz, where he made the semi-finals of his favoured 200 meters. But his progress stalled a little as he trained alone in Middlesbrough before moving to London in 2011 to train under the tutelage of coach Linford Christie, to include winter training in Arizona in early 2012.〔( Even More to Come Promises Kilty ); ''Athletics Weekly'', 9 April 2012; accessed 19 March 2014.〕 Kilty won the 60 m at the 2009 "Athletics Ashes" England Vs Australia Great North City Games, where he won in a time of 6.67 seconds.〔(Sprint star Richard Kilty aims for Games glory ). ''Evening Gazette'' (29 September 2009). Retrieved on 18 August 2012.〕 * A detailed history of Kilty's racing career and his best times year-by-year can be found on British Athletics' official website "Power of 10" (which acts to encourage, inspire and identify the Top 10 British track & field athletes in every event and at every (junior) age group: ( Power of 10, Athlete profile for Richard Kilty ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Kilty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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