Gary Telfer

Qualified from:

Barnet

Past employment:

Housing Officer
House Husband

Working background:

Gary started his athletics career when he strained the ligaments around his knee during a competitive football match. Due to this injury he required Physiotherapy rehabilitation. He joined an athletics group as a way to help with his technique and to rehabilitate his leg.

Gary has been involved in Athletics for the past 25 years in a competitive and coaching capacity. Gary is a level 3 athletics coach, Personal trainer, and a sports massage therapist. Gary presently coaches a squad of junior and senior athletes who he has coached to national standard, as well as some area champions.

Your almost most-outstanding achievement:

Meeting Stevie Wonder at Heathrow airport

What would you cook if I came round for dinner?

Run down (An incredible flavourful Fish stew) with festival (sweet corn meal dumpling) with rum carrot juice (carrot juice condensed and spiced 25 year old rum) to finish.

Where should we go on holiday?

Caribbean Islands

If you could take one thing into space, what would it be:

Discman 40,000 Tunes

What’s the one thing you haven’t confessed to your parents?

Why I left the army