![]() ![]() ![]() He later followed with a wind-legal 10.51 (-0.4), which was the fourth-fastest freshmen performance of all-time. Two years ago, when Slade was a freshman at Chapel Hill (GA) High School, he ran an all conditions time of 10.22 seconds for 100 meters. ![]() He went 10.03 in the preliminaries on that same 2.7 meters per second wind. Slade's performance in the finals wasn't even his fastest, either. That is the second-fastest time of his career. Knighton followed his first foray under 10 seconds with a fifth-place finish in 10.07. While the 17-year-old teenager from Georgia - and the recently-minted indoor 200m national record-holder - did not achieve the same breathtaking milestone as Knighton, he secured an all conditions, and nearly wind-legal, time of 10.04 (+2.1) in the finals to finish fourth behind Puma's Cejhae Green (10.02), adidas' Yohan Blake (10.02) and RunUXpress's Devin Quinn (10.03). IMG Academy's Jaylen Slade did him one better in the finals. Incredibly enough, though, Knighton wasn't alone on Sunday. The current world U20 leader for the 2021 season is Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, who ran 10.14 (+0.8) in February.Īccording to the I nternational Track Records site, the 17-year-old world age group wind-legal record for 100m is 10.01 seconds and is held by Yoshihide Kiryu, who secured the performance in 2013. No high school athlete has yet to run a wind-legal sub-10 100m time. In 2014, while Trayvon Bromell was an 18-year-old athlete competing for Baylor University, he broke the World U20 record with a time of 9.97 (+1.8). While Knighton made the decision in January to sign a professional contract with adidas, he remains a high school student. It signaled the Tampa-native's first race at the distance since August of last year, when he produced a career best performance of 10.29 seconds at 16 years old. Knighton's performance on its face, however, is even that more impressive, considering the wind conditions. It marked the third time since 2013 an American high school athlete broke 10 seconds, following the likes of Matthew Boling (9.98, +4.2) in 2019 and Trayvon Bromell (9.99, +4.0) in 2013. Photo Credit: (left) Charles Karam/(right) MileSplitĮrriyon Knighton has become the latest American teenager to break 10 seconds for 100 meters, on Sunday dropping a jaw-dropping all conditions 9.99 (+ 2.7) second time in the preliminaries of the Pure Athletics Sprint Elite Meet in Clermont, Florida. * Jaylen Slade (left) and Erriyon Knighton secured remarkable performances at 100 meters on Sunday ![]()
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