Florida teenager Erriyon Knighton toppled Usain Bolt’s 200m mark for athletes below 18 at an American Track League assembly on Monday, whereas world champion Grant Holloway dominated a high quality 110m hurdles discipline.
Knighton, 17, ran down Olympic 100m favorite Trayvon Bromell to win the 200m in 20.11, shaving 0.02 seconds off Bolt’s 2003 time.
Knighton selected to show skilled after competing in highschool. Bromell, the 12 months’s quickest at 9.88 in the 100m, completed second in 20.20, his greatest since 2015.
Holloway clocked 13.10 seconds forward of Olympian Devon Allen (13.22) and fellow American Daniel Roberts (13.23) as they tuned up for subsequent month’s U.S. Olympic trials.
Jamaica’s reigning Olympic champion Omar McLeod didn’t begin the ultimate after profitable his warmth in 13.16, with Holloway a hundredth of a second quicker in the second warmth.
American Ronnie Baker gained the boys’s 100m in 9.99 seconds and 6-occasions Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix ran her quickest 400m since 2018, clocking 50.66.
Watch the race right here:
Breaking a Usain Bolt record, even in the youth class, is at all times stunning
This boy, solely 17 years previous, timed 20.11s to set a brand new U18 World Best in 200m … Erriyon Knighton
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