13 Facts About Glen Mills

Glen Mills OD was born on 14 August 1949 and is a sprinting athletics coach from Jamaica.

Glen Mills was the head coach of the Jamaican Olympic athletics team between 1987 and 2009.

Glen Mills is currently head coach of the Racers Track Club which includes world and Olympic record holder Usain Bolt and the 100-metre World Champion Yohan Blake.

Two years after, Glen Mills had learnt well from the head coach and was given the job of coaching a class of younger track and field athletes.

Glen Mills retained the job after graduation, progressing to form an official part of the Camperdown High School coaching staff.

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The arrival of a new head of the sports department threatened Glen Mills coaching opportunities and he was sacked in favour of a more experienced coach.

Glen Mills was quickly reinstated at the school and went on to train many successful sprinters, including Olympic silver medallist Raymond Stewart.

Glen Mills continued to work on his coaching style and earned a diploma from the International Olympic Committee training centre in Mexico and a qualification in High-Level Sprint Tech training at the IAAF Training Centre in Puerto Rico.

Glen Mills was approached by Usain Bolt shortly after the Athens Olympics and he became the sprinter's coach in late 2004.

The acceptance of the request paid dividends for both sprinter and coach as Glen Mills was impressed with Bolt's new drive and focus in training.

Bolt praised Glen Mills, saying it was his coaching which made him improve, not only as an athlete, but as a person.

Glen Mills stepped down as the Olympic Jamaican athletics coach in late 2009, having overseen athletes to 71 world championship and 33 Olympic medals in his 22 years in the role.

Glen Mills said other prominent coaches deserved a chance at undertaking the position and decided he wanted to focus more on his Racers Track Club team.