Richard Kilty

Runner

Richard Kilty was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom on September 2nd, 1989 and is the Runner. At the age of 35, Richard Kilty biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
September 2, 1989
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom
Age
35 years old
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Profession
Athletics Competitor, Sprinter
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Richard Kilty Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 35 years old, Richard Kilty has this physical status:

Height
184cm
Weight
82kg
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Richard Kilty Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Education
Northfield School and Sports College
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Richard Kilty 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 [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).

In July 2006, Kilty won the English Schools (national) Championship in 100 metres 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. [Note: 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 metres. 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.

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.

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Richard Kilty completed remarkable comeback with relay bronze after being stripped of Tokyo silver and battling back from surgery - no British Olympian has smiled wider in Paris, writes DAVID COVERDALE

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 10, 2024
The 34-year-old received a bronze medal at the Stade de France on Friday night from the 4x100 metres relay. And it was redemption for Kilty after he was stripped of his silver from the same event at the Tokyo Olympics following CJ Ujah's failed drugs test. 'It feels amazing,' said the Teesside sprinter, who ran in the heats but not the final after injuring his Achilles.

CJ Ujah fails to make the Team GB squad for Paris 2024 - three years after failing a drugs test that cost the men's relay team Olympic silver

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 6, 2024
CJ UJAH has missed out on a place in Great Britain's Olympic athletics squad - three years after his failed drugs cost his 4x100 metres relay team a silver medal. The 30-year-old, who served a 22-month doping ban, was tipped to earn a relay place in Paris having been picked for the World Relays and European Championships earlier this summer. However, despite finishing third in the 100m at last weekend's British trials, Ujah was surprisingly omitted from the 64-strong Olympic squad that was announced yesterday (Fri).

Britain's men's 4x100m relay team flop in the heats in Rome, with a poor final baton change causing the defending champions to finish last in CJ Ujah's return after 22-month drugs ban

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 11, 2024
DAVID COVERDALE IN ROME: CJ Ujah and Richard Kilty's relay reunion ended in disaster as Britain's 4x100m quartet crashed out in the heats in Rome. The pair were running together for the first time since the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, when Ujah's failed drugs cost the team a silver medal, something Kilty said he would never forgive. But it was their performance here in the European Championships that was unforgivable, as Kilty and Romell Glave messed up their final baton change and the defending champions finished last in their heat.
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