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BBC News
2 days ago
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- BBC News
Sorato Shimizu: Teenager breaks 100m world record in 10 seconds
A 16-year-old Japanese sprinter has SMASHED a world record after running a lightning-fast 100m in exactly 10 Sorato Shimizu completed the run at the Inter High School Championships in Japan on runner blazed past his opponents, with second place finishing in 10.27 seconds, almost three-tenths of a second previous world record for under-18s was 10.06 seconds, set by American teen Christian Miller and Puripol Boonson from Thailand in who is Shimizu, and could he be a future Olympic champion? Sorato Shimizu is a 16-year-old teenager from Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, where he goes to school he goes to has a history of producing top-level clocked a rapid 10.37s in the 100m run at last year's high-school championships, and an even faster 10.19s run earlier this July, before smashing the world record this he's lesser known than Australia's teen super-sprinter Gout Gout, who some have tipped to be the next Usain Bolt, Soratos' win has nonetheless turned just 16, he is now the joint-fifth fastest Japanese athlete in history. What next? The future looks bright for the rising achieving a time of 10 seconds, he can qualify for the World Athletics World Championships in September, which are taking place in if he doesn't compete there, Sorato has proved he could be a challenger to rival Gout Gout, and a future Olympian.
News.com.au
2 days ago
- Sport
- News.com.au
Gout Gout put on notice as Japanese teen obliterates his PB and Usain Bolt record in sizzling 100m run
Japanese teen phenom Sorato Shimizu has put Gout Gout and the world on notice after running a blistering 10.00 100m at a local meet in Hiroshima, Japan. The 16-year-old tore up the track, striding right away from his rivals late in a performance that has raised more than a few eyebrows. Watch the biggest Aussie sports & the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1. His 10-second flat run obliterated Gout's personal best time of 10.17 and is also faster than any 100m time recorded by Usain Bolt as a 20-year-old. It was so fast that it set a new world record for the fastest 100m time ever achieved by an athlete under the age of 18. Shimizu beat the previous record jointly held by American Christian Miller, and Thai ace Puripol Boonson, who both previously ran 100m in 10.06 seconds. You can watch the Shimuzu's incredible 100m dash in the player above. Following his achievement, Shimuzu said: 'I was determined to run under 10 seconds heading into the final. 'I'm happy to have set a high school record. I'd like to get a taste of it if I can make it.' Does Gout Gout have a new rival? Gout is the rising star of athletics but the fact a boy younger than him has achieved a time he hasn't is sure to get his competitive juices flowing. Similarly to Usain Bolt, Gout has suggested the 200m event is more suited to his running style, due to his slower start and trademark acceleration – similar to that of Usain Bolt. But the Aussie will still be competing at several 100m events in the coming months and years, and is sure to have noticed the young Japanese phenom. Gout has gone under 10 seconds twice in his young career but both runs were wind assisted, meaning Shimizu has got one up on the Aussie sensation, at least for now. With Gout shining at the Diamond League and Shimizu clocking a world record time it is only a matter of the time until the pair do battle on the track.
Reuters
19-07-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Seville, Alfred and Koech shine in London rain
LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles chewing his dust on Saturday as the Jamaican blasted out of the blocks and kept the hammer down to win the London Diamond League 100 metres in a hot 9.86 seconds. Seville, so impressive through the rounds at last year's Olympics before coming last in the final, roared into a two-metre lead after 20 metres and was never threatened as he came home clear, with Lyles finishing strongly, but not enough, for second in 10.00. A sold-out 60,000 Olympic Stadium crowd braved early storms to watch some superb performances as athletes start to build towards September's world championships in Tokyo. Julien Alfred won the women's 200m in a scorching personal best of 21.71 seconds, Briton Charlie Dobson was a surprise winner of the 400m, 18-year-old Kenyan Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech won the 1,500m and Mykolas Alekna won the discus with a Diamond League record of 71.70 metres. As always, however, it was the 100m that was the centre piece, with, as always, Lyles at the centre of that. The American, who had been struggling with an ankle injury, began his season in earnest last week with victory over 200m in Monaco and was in confident mood clad in a fetching mauve one-piece on Saturday. However, it was the red blur of Seville that caught the eye after a brilliant pick-up stage that effectively settled the race by 25 metres. "I am proud of how I ran amongst a stacked field. I was the only one to run under 10 seconds today, it is something special and phenomenal heading into a major championship," said Seville, who has yet to turn his talent into individual gold on the world stage. Lyles was also upbeat. "I feel great after that, I feel extremely healthy and I am feeling no pain," he said. "I wanted the win but I think it was my fastest-ever season opener, so I will take that result today." The women's Olympic 100m champion, St Lucia's Alfred, was hugely impressive winner of the 200m, forging clear in the latter stages to clock a meeting record. British duo Dina Asher-Smith (22.25) and Amy Hunt (22.31) followed her home. In a high-quality 1,500 metres field it was rising star Koech who took the honours, forcing past Britain's world champion Josh Kerr on the inside 200 metres out and driving clear to win in 3:28.82. His compatriot, Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyoni, made it a middle-distance double by taking the 800m. Canadian Marco Arop, whom he beat by one hundredth of a second in last year's Olympic final, came off the final bend in the lead but Wanyoni surged through to win in 1:42.00. Medina Eisa, 20, beat fellow Ethiopian Fantaye Belayneh in a fantastic women's 5,000 metres, battling in a back-and-forth final 200 metres to snatch victory in 14.30.97 as Belayneh set a personal best of 14:30.90. Despite the injury absence of Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, there was plenty to cheer for the home fans in the women's 800m as Georgia Hunter Bell ran a superbly-judged race to win in 1:56.74 from American Addison Wiley. There was British success in the men's 400m too but not what was expected as Dobson overhauled favourite Matt Hudson-Smith on the line. Dobson was 10 metres adrift entering the final straight but finished like a train to sweep past five rivals and looked stunned when he saw his personal best of 44.14 seconds on the screen. World and Olympic silver medallist Hudson-Smith, tying up, finished second in 44.27. Alekna did not let a wet circle impact his performance as he won the discus with a mighty 71.70 throw – a Diamond League record but almost four metres off the world record the Lithuanian set in the United States in April in a performance dubbed 'weather doping' because of the assistance gained from high winds.
France 24
19-07-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Seville outshines Olympic champion Lyles in season-opening 100m
Lyles, in lane five outside Seville and inside Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, had a terrible start and spent the whole race attempting to chase down the Jamaican. Seville, twice a fourth-placed finisher in the blue riband event at the two last world championships, duly held his nerve, crossing the line at the London Stadium in 9.86 seconds, with Lyles fighting back to finish second in 10.00sec. Britain's Anguilla-born Zharnel Hughes rounded out the podium in 10.02sec. The build-up to Lyles' first 100m of the season, after he beat Tebogo in the 200m in Monaco last week, was all about the American coming back from an ankle tendon injury and finetuning his form ahead of September's world championships in Tokyo. The 28-year-old, ever the showman, insisted Friday that his goal for the season was to win three gold medals in the Japanese capital, to repeat the triple golden medal haul he enjoyed at the 2023 world championships in Budapest. Arms raised, eyes shut, Lyles applauded the 60,000-capacity crowd and span around on his spikes to acknowledge the rapturous welcome, which was also afforded to Tebogo. As the sprinters settled in their blocks, the sun shone through on West Ham's stadium, a wholesale change from earlier thunder storms. But Seville made the difference from the starter's gun and was never in danger of not winning. Seville's Jamaican teammate Kishane Thompson, the fastest man this year over 100m with a time of 9.75sec, was present in London, but only as part of a strong Jamaican 4x100m relay team seeking to bag a qualifying time for the Tokyo worlds. Thompson anchored the Jamaican quartet to victory in 37.80sec to ensure a berth in the Japanese capital. "We are very grateful to get the job done," Thompson said.
Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Seville outshines Olympic champion Lyles in season-opening 100m
Jamaica's Oblique Seville outshone Olympic champion Noah Lyles in the men's 100m at the Diamond League in London on Saturday. Lyles, in lane five outside Seville and inside Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, had a terrible start and spent the whole race attempting to chase down the Jamaican. Seville, twice a fourth-placed finisher in the blue riband event at the two last world championships, duly held his nerve, crossing the line at the London Stadium in 9.86 seconds, with Lyles fighting back to finish second in 10.00sec. Britain's Anguilla-born Zharnel Hughes rounded out the podium in 10.02sec. The build-up to Lyles' first 100m of the season, after he beat Tebogo in the 200m in Monaco last week, was all about the American coming back from an ankle tendon injury and finetuning his form ahead of September's world championships in Tokyo. The 28-year-old, ever the showman, insisted Friday that his goal for the season was to win three gold medals in the Japanese capital, to repeat the triple golden medal haul he enjoyed at the 2023 world championships in Budapest. Arms raised, eyes shut, Lyles applauded the 60,000-capacity crowd and span around on his spikes to acknowledge the rapturous welcome, which was also afforded to Tebogo. As the sprinters settled in their blocks, the sun shone through on West Ham's stadium, a wholesale change from earlier thunder storms. But Seville made the difference from the starter's gun and was never in danger of not winning. Seville's Jamaican teammate Kishane Thompson, the fastest man this year over 100m with a time of 9.75sec, was present in London, but only as part of a strong Jamaican 4x100m relay team seeking to bag a qualifying time for the Tokyo worlds. Thompson anchored the Jamaican quartet to victory in 37.80sec to ensure a berth in the Japanese capital. "We are very grateful to get the job done," Thompson said. "I would not say they were the best exchanges, but we got it around safely." lp-gj
