Speed Queen - Part 1

From excelling at track sports to competing on Survivor to winning the Figure Olympia crown, Cydney Gillon has wasted no time. And the scary thing is, she’s just getting started.

- Steve Mazzucchi

 

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Cydney Gillon

Birth Date: 14th September, 1992

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 140 lbs

Residence: Los Angeles, CA

Website: cakefactoryfitness.com

Instagram: @vytamin_c

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For as long as she can remember, Cydney Gillon has been fast. “We had this school race called the Turkey Trot,” she recalls. “And I won it every single year until I broke my ankle one year—all the way from kindergarten through fifth grade.”

But that’s just kid stuff, right? Not exactly. Since those early days in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville, GA, Gillon has made a habit of arriving ahead of schedule. She did her first bodybuilding show at 14, cracked the UPenn track team at 18, reached the final four of