Kingston, Ont.’s Wyatt Lee continues his whirlwind rise by way of Canadian monitor and subject. At Friday’s Observe Evening Invitational at Icahn Stadium in New York Metropolis, the 17-year-old dash phenom broke his second nationwide report in as many months, clocking 10.44 seconds within the 100m.
His blistering efficiency smashed the Canadian U18 report of 10.46 held by Olympic champion Aaron Brown since 2009–only a yr after Lee was born. It additionally stands because the fourth-fastest U18 time on the earth this yr.
Lee entered the meet with a private better of 10.70, set throughout the first official race recorded on his World Athletics profile. He ran a wind-aided 10.43 in heats (+2.4 m/s wind) earlier than snagging the report within the last, edging out 19-year-old Shaun McCoullum of Philadelphia by four-hundredths of a second.
A member of the Flying Angels Observe and Discipline Academy and pupil at Kingston’s Frontenac Secondary College, Lee solely began sprinting competitively in 2024 after transitioning from soccer. His development has been nothing in need of extraordinary; final Might, he made his highschool debut with a 11.51 seconds–and inside three months, he had lowered that non-public greatest to 10.61 seconds. Lee went on to medal in 100m and 200m at OFSAA, Ontario’s highschool monitor championships.
Lee continues to be contemporary off a record-breaking run from March’s Canadian Indoor Observe and Discipline Championships, the place he shattered the U18 nationwide greatest within the 60m. Racing on the Toronto Observe and Discipline Centre, Lee posted a powerful 6.71 seconds to surpass Brandon Bobb‘s 2012 mark of 6.73.
See full outcomes from NYC’s Observe Evening Invitational right here.