Video: Sperrin’s Gavin Corey is November’s sports personality

Gerard McSloy Manager of McConnell's Intersport Cookstown hands over the Mid-Ulster Mail & Tyrone Times Sports Personality for the month of November winning vouchers to Sperrin Harriers member Gavin Corey. Included in the picture are Patrick Cullen Mid-Ulster Mail & Tyrone Times Advertising Team Leader and Dominic Kelly (Ulster Bank).INTT5014-353

Twenty year old Gavin Corey has made quite a splash on the local athletics scene this season and enjoyed a brilliant November.

The Kildress man claimed four first place finishes in two weekends, at the beginning of the month to earn himself November’s Tyrone Times/ Mid-Ulster Mail Sports Personality of the Month.

Corey, a talented triathlete, only took up running competitively two years ago and plies his trade locally with the Sperrin Harriers Club.

The run of success for Corey began on Saturday 1st November when he won the first race in the Sperrin Harriers Winter League the Davagh 10k beating off 130 competitors.

The next day Corey continued his good form when he won the Bishopscourt Duathlon, a combined event for both running and cycling.

Gavin’s good form didn’t stop there as he took two more victories the weekend after at the Davagh Duathlon and at Creggan. He also took second place at the Aughnacloy 5 mile road race.

This success is merely the icing on the cake for Corey, who completed his first Iron Man in Wales last year at the tender age of 19.