Tremaine Harris

Tremaine Harris
	Harris at the 2018 Penn Relays
Personal information
Full name	Tremaine Ryan Alexander Harris
Nickname(s)	Tre
Nationality	Canada
Born	February 10, 1992 (age 29); 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)
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Men's Athletics
Representing Canada
NACAC U-23 Championships
Pan American Junior Championships

Tremaine Harris (born February 10, 1992) is a Canadian track and field athlete who specializes in the sprint distances. Harris is of Jamaican descent and is fluent in English and French. Harris' personal best for the 200 m (20.22 seconds) is the sixth fastest in Canadian history.^[1] He is coached by Anthony McCleary and Desai Williams.^[2]

Early life[]

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Harris attended several schools growing up across the Greater Toronto Area, such as Father Henry Carr Secondary School, Markham District High School,^[3] and Bur Oak Secondary School, 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.^[4] Less than a month later, Harris received his first international medal at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in the 4 × 100 m relay winning the silver medal.^{[citation needed]} Harris competed in the 200 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th in his heat.^{[citation needed]} 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.