Trevor Painter (coach)

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Trevor Painter
Alma mater University of Central Lancashire
OccupationSports coach
OrganizationM11 Track Club
Spouse Jenny Meadows
Children1
Awards

Trevor Painter is an English athletics coach and the founder of M11 Track Club. He won the Coaching Achievement Award at the World Athletics Awards 2024. Alongside his wife Jenny Meadows, he won Coach of the Year at the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

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Career

A former rugby league player and 400 metres runner, he spent two years in the academy at Wigan Warriors and he trained in Wigan where he first met athlete Jenny Meadows, who asked him to coach her. [1] He started coaching around the year 2000 and became the founder and director of the M11 Track Club. Continuing to be based in Wigan, he coached athletes including Kirsten McAslan, Graeme Ballard, and was the athletics coach of Jenny Meadows when she won World Athletics Championships 800m and 4x400m relay bronze medals in 2009, and World Athletics Indoor Championships 800m silver in 2010. [2] [3] [4]

He is the athletics coach of 2024 Olympic Games gold medalist Keely Hodgkinson along with his now wife Jenny Meadows. [5] [6] [7] He also coached Georgia Bell to an individual Olympic medal in 2024 and is coach of Lewis Davey, who won bronze as part of the men's 4x400m relay team in Paris having previously won after claiming world silver and bronze relay medals in Budapest at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. [8] [9] [10] The M11 Track Club also includes Scottish runners Erin Wallace and Eloise Walker, and Irish international runner Sarah Healy. [11]

As of November 2024, he had coached track athletes to four Olympic and eight World Championship medals, as well as 12 medals at European and Commonwealth level. [1]

Accolades

In November 2024, he won Coaching Achievement Award, becoming the first winner to be announced as part of the World Athletics Awards 2024. [9] At the UK Coaching Awards in December 2024 he won the High Performance Coach of the Year. [12] Meadows and Painter jointly won the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award. [4]

Personal life

He graduated with an MSc in Elite Coaching Practice at the University of Central Lancashire. He married Jenny Meadows in 2006. [4] They have a daughter, Arabella. [13] He worked as part of the Premier League Covid-19 testing team during the Coronavirus pandemic. [1]

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  8. ↑ "Müller steals the show with a breakthrough 6.81m long jump in Dortmund". European Athletics. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  9. 1 2 "Painter receives Coaching Achievement Award". World Athletics. 30 November 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  10. ↑ Kendrick, Paul (11 August 2024). "Wigan's Trevor Painter feared Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Bell - Keely Hodgkinson's training partner - had been lost to the sport". Wigan Today. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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