Divine Iheme runs world 14 best of 10.30 over 100m

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The British teenager smashes the previous mark of 10.51 with a stunning run at Lee Valley

Divine Iheme has obliterated the world 100m best for his age group, running 10.30 (1.7) at Lee Valley (August 26).

The teenager, known as ‘Lightning’ Divine’, was already the fastest 14-year-old over 100m in the UK and had a personal best of 10.56 from the England Athletics U15 & U17 Open Championships last month.

Iheme did go quicker than that mark on three occasions – 10.46, 10.48 and 10.49 – earlier on in the year, but the trio of times were all over the legal wind limit.

Divine Iheme

With his 10.30 being wind legal, Iheme has now taken apart of the world 14 100m best of 10.51, previously held by Jamaica’s Sachin Dennis.

Iheme has also sky-rocketed up the international junior rankings and is now third on the European U18 all-time list. Only Britain’s Teddy Wilson (10.26) and France’s Jeff Erius (10.27) have gone quicker.

The 14-year-old is coached by mum Nkiruku Iheme, who is the founder of the PWD Athletic Academy – created to help kids realise their potential through athletics – in Oxfordshire.

Both of his parents – his dad is Innocent Iheme – represented Nigeria at international level, including the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

The teenager has also previously stated that he watched and studied both Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix growing up.

The Oxfordshire-based athlete told Sky Sports: “I’ve watched quite a lot of Usain Bolt’s races and Allyson Felix’s 200m, 400m and relays.

 

“Probably the first race I watched, was his [Bolt’s] world 200m world record, the 19.19, and I was inspired to pursue the dream.”

In that same interview Iheme, who was born in Nigeria, added that he wanted to represent Great Britain in the future “because they have helped me the most”.

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A 16-year-old runner from Australia has turned into a viral sensation after fan film from his 100m race at the Queensland Sports Titles arose on the web.

Gout, who was brought into the world in Brisbane in 2007 – two years after his folks moved to Australia from South Sudan – has been named the following Usain Bolt by a lot of people.

Not long subsequent to accepting his most memorable sets of spikes at Ipswich Sentence structure School in South East Queensland, where he dazzled spectators with his crude speed, he ran 100m in 10.57s at 14 years old.

It didn’t take long for mentor Diane Sheppard to work on his strategy.

Back in November 2022, she told Sports Australia: “Six or eight months prior, he seemed as though a unique little something that blow around in vehicle yards. His arms were crazy.”

Sheppard added: “Individuals rush to remark saying look how awful his beginning is, yet the youngster hasn’t even dealt with his appendage length yet.”

Gout took a gander at home on the track and after a year, he was breaking public records. Truth be told, Gout is right now the holder of the Australian under-16 100m and 200m records.

Last year, he ran 20.87s to win the under-18 men’s 200m last at the Australian Junior Games Titles in Brisbane and in January, he accomplished a period of 20.69s – which is only 0.11s behind Bolt’s time at a similar age.

Then, back in Spring, Gout timed an individual best season of 10.29s to win the under-18 young men 100m at the 2024 Queensland Sports Titles – a race that has since been seen by millions.

Albeit the record-breaking run was finished a while prior, the recording has exploded on X, previously Twitter, after client Del Walker transferred the clasp to his channel on Friday morning.

“Find out about a 16-year-old Sudanese youngster in Australia who ran 100m in 10.2 seconds this year. Tracked down the recording — cracking ludicrous,” he said. “He is Gout, recall the name. Absolutely no chance is this youngster not going to be an Olympian one day.”

This is the way fans via online entertainment have responded to the above film.

One stated: “It resembles he squeezed the 2x speed button most of the way into that run,” while one more remarked: “Gout may be the one to break Bolt’s record.”

A third said: “This is great for a 16-year-old. In the event that appropriately made due, he will overwhelm the Olympics soon.”

A fourth stated: “With a turn of speed like that after 55m/60m I might want to see this chap run the 200m.”

A fifth added: “Gout is chosen for Australia On the planet Junior Titles in Peru one week from now. Fascinating to perceive how his undoubted ability has the right stuff at that level. May be even speedier when he figures out his beginning. Appears to be up stand up from the starting position. Some step length in full stream.”