Richard Kilty is one of the few British athletes to have won medals in every major indoor and outdoor championships, including gold in both the Commonwealth Games and the European Athletics Championships as a relay runner, gold in the European and World Indoors as a 60 metre specialist, and medals, again as a relay runner, in the World Athletics World Relays, the World Athletics Championships.
19 Facts About Richard Kilty
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Richard Kilty is the 2014 World, and 2015 and 2017 European Indoor 60m champion.
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Richard Kilty 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.
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Richard Kilty failed to make the Team GB roster for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, despite having met the qualifying standard.
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Richard Kilty set his 100m personal best of 10.10 in August 2013 at the European Athletics permit meeting in Hexham, UK.
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Richard Kilty broke the aged-12 UK record for 60m in 2001 and since then competed for Great Britain throughout the youth levels.
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In July 2006, Richard Kilty won the English Schools Championship in 100 metres in the Intermediate age group with a time of 11.0, when the championship was held in Gateshead.
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Richard Kilty repeated as champion at the Senior level in July 2007, winning in 10.73.
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Richard Kilty's time bettered the "A" qualifying standard for the upcoming London Olympics, while his 100m time was just inside the "B" standard of 10.24.
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The athletics officials who selected Team GB for London said Richard Kilty was not included in the squad because he lacked current form, having strained a hamstring muscle at the British Championships.
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Richard Kilty was upset about his treatment by British Athletics officials who selected the UK team for the 2012 London Olympics.
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Richard Kilty had met the qualifying standard for the Olympics in the 200 metres and believed that even though a pulled hamstring compromised his training in final weeks before the Games, he should have been the UK's third entry in the 200m.
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The 2013 outdoor season brought a dramatic improvement in the 200m, as Richard Kilty ran a personal best of 20.34 seconds at the annual Resisprint International sprinters meet in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on 7 July 2013.
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Richard Kilty ran 10.24 seconds in the 100m at the Swiss meet.
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Two weeks after Worlds, Richard Kilty improved his best time in the 100m to 10.10 seconds at a track meet in Hexham, northern England on Saturday 31 August 2013.
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At the 2014 British Indoor Championships held in Birmingham on 8 February 2014, Richard Kilty lowered his personal best in the 60 metres to 6.58 in the semi-finals, and he then ran 6.53 in the finals to finish third behind James Dasaolu and Dwain Chambers.
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Records maintained by British Athletics show Richard Kilty is the sixth British sprinter ever to have run the 60m in under 6.50 seconds.
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Long known for his exceptionally fast reaction time at the start of races, Richard Kilty routinely reacted to the starter's gun in less than 0.130 seconds, several hundredths of a second faster than his competitors.
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Richard Kilty is married to Lithuanian triple jumper Dovile Dzindzaletaite, whom he met during the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London.