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Florida 17-Year-Old Breaks Track Record Previously Held By Usain Bolt. He Now Qualifies For The Olympic Trials.
The record for fastest 200 meter was held by Bolt for 18 years.
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A Black teenager from Florida broke the 200-meter record of track phenomenon Usain Bolt at the American Track League meet on Monday.
In Jacksonville, Erriyon Knighton won the U18 race with a time of 20.1, beating Bolt’s 2003 record by just 0.02 seconds, NBC Sports reports. The Tampa Hillsborough High School student now ranks seventh among Americans in the 200m of this year and 13th since the start of 2019. At 17 years old, Knighton outran 25-year-old Olympic 100m favorite, Trayvon Bromell, who had the fastest 100-meter with a time of 9.88 this year.