Southern Counties Track & Field Championships - New UK sprint find emerges from the shadows
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 07:04AM On Saturday the 12th of June 19 year old, TREMAYNE GILLING, won the SCAAA Senior 100m in 10.44. His time in the heats were 10.5/10.37 to qualify in first place. Second in the Final was Eli Winn (E&H) in 10.61 and third Robert Graham (HHH) 10.68. (Tremayne Gilling was born 27/7/90 and now runs for Blackheath & Bromley but used to run for Sutton & District).
"That was the first time I won a Southern Sprint Championship over 100m. I was 3rd in the Under 17 before. It is my best season so far!'
He ran 10.34 coming second in the Loughborough International in May and emerged as a sprinting force when he had come 1st in the British Universities at Bedford, where he ran 10.49 in the Final.
He ran a 21.79/200 in the United States in April.
"I have been in athletics all my life. My Mum used to be an athlete. LORNA BOOTH ( Commonwealth 100 hurdles Champion 1978 and WAAA Champion in 1977). I took athletics seriously about four or five years ago. I was coached by my Mother at first and Matt Paviour but now by LLoyd Cowan. LLoyd is very good developing my strengths so I do not have weaknesses. As Lorna was my Mum I did not tend to listen to her'
I added that people don't always listen to their parents if they are in athletics themselves and, need someone separate to coach them, however close they are to their family.
How much did he train now ' As I have to be at Middlesex University two days a week I have given myself more time to train and I do 9 or 10 times a week. It's a big step up.'
As he has had so much athletics through his Mother in the family, he must have had heroes and he points to two
' Maurice Greene and Linford Christie"'
Lloyd Cowan,
Tremayne Gilling 

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