Tremaine Harris (born February 10, 1992) is a Canadian
track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...
athlete who specializes in the
sprint distances.
He is of Jamaican descent and is fluent in English and French.
His personal best for the 200 m (20.22 seconds) is the sixth fastest in Canadian history.
He is coached by Anthony McCleary and
Desai Williams.
Early life
Born in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Harris attended several schools growing up across the
Greater Toronto Area, such as
Father Henry Carr Secondary School,
Markham District High School, and
Bur Oak Secondary School
Bur Oak Secondary School (BOSS) is a public secondary school in Markham, Ontario, Canada established in 2007, and is part of the York Region District School Board. The school was named after the road which it is built on, which in turn is named ...
, to pursue his track career.
Career
Harris competed in his first international competition at the
2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in the 400 m sprint. He competed in the 2011 Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships in the 200 m and 400 m events winning gold in both. Though he was still a junior, he competed in the 2011 Canadian Track and Field Championships winning gold in the 400 m with a time of 46.24 seconds, becoming the first Canadian to win gold in the same event in both the junior and senior championships in the same year.
Less than a month later, Harris received his first international medal at the
in the 4 × 100 m relay winning the silver medal. Harris competed in the 200 m event at the
2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th in his heat. At the
2013 World Championships in Moscow, Harris again ran in the 200 m event, finishing 5th in his heat with a time of 20.68 s.
Achievements
* 1st, 2012 National Championships, Calgary, Canada .
* 13th, 200 m., 2010
IAAF World Junior Championships
The World Athletics U20 Championships is a biennial world championships for the sport of athletics organised by the World Athletics, contested by athletes in the under-20 athletics age category (19 years old or younger on 31 December in the yea ...
* Personal Best: 20.22, Guadalajara 7 August 2012
References
External links
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1992 births
Living people
Black Canadian track and field athletes
Olympic track and field athletes for Canada
Canadian male sprinters
Athletes from Toronto
Canadian people of Jamaican descent
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canadian Track and Field Championships winners
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