American teenager Christian Miller is having a senior 12 months of highschool to recollect. The 17-year-old from Creekside, Fla., set a brand new American U20 100m document of 9.93 seconds (+1.6 m/s) on Saturday on the Pure Athletics Spring Invitational in Clermont, Fla.
Miller is simply the second American excessive schooler in historical past to interrupt the elusive 10-second barrier for 100m. The one different American sprinter to take action is Trayvon Bromell, who ran 9.97 seconds in 2014. Bromell has received three world championship dash medals since he turned professional in 2015.
Christian Miller drops a wind authorized 9.93 100m at 17-years-old 🤯pic.twitter.com/4yz6ZXnlpV
— Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) April 21, 2024
It’s solely April, however Miller’s efficiency is the quickest 100m time on the earth this 12 months. It’s even sooner than the reigning world champion Noah Lyles’s season’s better of 10.01 seconds.
Miller had a private better of 10.06 seconds heading into the race. Final 12 months, Miller received the U.S. U20 nationwide title within the 100m and 200m occasions. His spectacular performances have earned him a full scholarship to the College of Georgia, the place he’ll work with adorned dash coach Caryl Smith Gilbert. Smith Gilbert has beforehand coached among the high sprinters on the earth, together with Canada’s Andre De Grasse and Christopher Morales Williams.
Miller’s new American document is the third-fastest U20 100m in historical past, behind Suriname’s Issam Asinga, who set the U20 document of 9.89 final July (he was later suspended for a doping violation), and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, who clocked 9.91 in 2022.
With USATF opting out of the U20 World Athletics Championships later this 12 months in Lima, Peru, Miller may doubtlessly observe within the footsteps of American 200m star Erriyon Knighton, who made the U.S. Olympic Crew for Tokyo 2020 whereas nonetheless in highschool.
