Tremaine Harris facts for kids
Harris at the 2018 Penn Relays
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Tremaine Ryan Alexander Harris |
| Nickname(s) | Tre |
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Born | February 10, 1992 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb; 12.8 st) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Running |
| Club | Project Athletics Track and Field Club |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 200m: 20.22s (Irapuato 2012) 400m: 46.22s (Victoria 2011) |
Tremaine Harris (born February 10, 1992) is a Canadian track and field athlete. He is a very fast runner who specializes in short races, also known as sprints.
Tremaine is from a Jamaican family and can speak both English and French. His fastest time for the 200-meter race is 20.22 seconds. This makes him one of the fastest Canadians ever in that event! He has two coaches, Anthony McCleary and Desai Williams, who help him train.
Early Life and School
Tremaine Harris was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As he grew up, he went to several different schools around the Greater Toronto Area. These schools included Father Henry Carr Secondary School, Markham District High School, and Bur Oak Secondary School. He moved to these schools to help him with his running career.
Tremaine's Running Career
Tremaine started competing internationally in 2010. His first big race was the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where he ran the 400-meter sprint.
In 2011, Tremaine had a fantastic year. He competed in the Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships and won gold medals in both the 200-meter and 400-meter races. Even though he was still a junior athlete, he also competed in the main Canadian Track and Field Championships that same year. He won a gold medal in the 400-meter race with a time of 46.24 seconds. This was a special achievement because he was the first Canadian to win gold in the same event at both the junior and senior championships in the same year!
Less than a month later, Tremaine won his first international medal. He earned a silver medal in the 4 × 100-meter relay at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.
Tremaine also competed in the 200-meter race at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He finished 5th in his heat during that competition. In 2013, he ran the 200-meter event again at the World Championships in Moscow, finishing 5th in his heat with a time of 20.68 seconds.
Major Achievements
Tremaine Harris has achieved several notable things in his running career:
- 1st place, men's 200 meters, at the 2012 National Championships in Calgary, Canada.
- 13th place, 200 meters, at the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships.
- His personal best time for the 200-meter race is 20.22 seconds, which he achieved in Guadalajara on July 8, 2012.
External Links
- Tremaine Harris at World AthleticsLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Tremaine Harris at the Canadian Olympic CommitteeLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Tremaine Harris at Olympics.com (archived: OlympicChannel.com and Olympic.org)
- Tremaine Harris at OlympediaLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
