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Meet the 12-year-old Jamaican sprinter set to rival Usain Bolt
Brianna Lyston is on her to becoming the world's next super star.
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Judging by footage of Brianna Lyston competing at the 2017 Boys and Girls Championships over the weekend in the Caribbean nation, it would certainly seem so.
Incredibly, the 12-year-old (yes, TWELVE) managed to win the 200m race with a time of 23.72 seconds – that’s almost within two seconds of the senior world record of 21.34 seconds, set by Florence Griffith-Joyner at the 1988 Olympics.
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Oh, and she’s pretty rapid in the 100m too, clocking 11.86 seconds.
It is not for nothing that she is being compared to eight-time Olympic gold medal winner Usain Bolt.
Lyston first came to national prominence at the age of 10 when she ran 42.41 in the 300m at the Caribbean Union Teachers Championships in Trinidad and Tobago – over a second faster than the winning time in the boys’ race.
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