'Remember the name': Teen breaks Usain Bolt record after 18 years
An American teenager has stunned onlookers after an incredible finish helped him eclipse Usain Bolt's 200m record for the under 18 category at a track meet.
Erriyon Knighton, 17, ran down Olympic 100m favourite Trayvon Bromell on the straight to win the 200m meet in a stunning 20.11 seconds.
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This shaved 0.02 seconds off Bolt's time, which he recorded in 2003.
"I've definitely got to respect them, top of the world," Knighton said, after the race.
"But I feel like I brought my A game today."
Knighton has turned professional after completing high school.
Fans were stunned at Knighton's feat ahead of the Olympics.
Wow.
17-year-old high school junior Erriyon Knighton runs down Trayvon Bromell and wins the 200m at the Duval County Challenge in Jacksonville.
He runs 20.11 (wind-legal) -- just .02 shy of Noah Lyles' 20.09 US high school record from 2016.https://t.co/9FZHtZk67T pic.twitter.com/a5shhuPrwo— Jonathan Gault (@jgault13) June 1, 2021
Wow, Erriyon Knighton (17) storms round to a sizzling hot 20.11, breaking Usain Bolt's World U18 Best of 20.13 since July 2003, to further claim a firm win ahead of a good @TrayvonBromell in 20.20 (SB), his best since 2015, over the men's 200m (1.6) in Jacksonville!
— Costas Goulas (@LsabreAvenger) June 1, 2021
A snap from Erriyon Knighton's new World U18 Best of 20.11 (WJL) coming from behind to snatch the win in the late stages over the men's 200m (1.6) pic.twitter.com/uh7yrGWm1B
— Costas Goulas (@LsabreAvenger) June 1, 2021
Erriyon Knighton is 17 years old.
He just ran 200m in 20.11.
Bolt ran 19.93 at 17.
Remember the name because he’s coming.— Steve Deppe, CMT (@SJD10304) June 1, 2021
Bromell, who has run the year's fastest 100m race at 9.88 seconds, finished a close second to Knighton in 20.20.
This was the best 200m time since 2015.
Athletes prepare for Olympics
Meanwhile, world champion Grant Holloway dominated a quality 110m hurdles field.
Holloway clocked 13.10 to finish clear of Olympian Devon Allen (13.22) and fellow American Daniel Roberts (13.23), as they tuned up for next month's US Olympic trials.
Jamaica's reigning Olympic champion Omar McLeod did not start the final after winning his heat in 13.16, with Holloway a hundredth of a second faster in the second heat.
American Ronnie Baker won the men's 100m in 9.99 seconds from Jamaica's Yohan Blake, Olympic silver medallist in 2012, and six-times Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix ran her fastest 400m since 2018, clocking 50.66.
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