Brianna Lyston, aged 12, dubbed heir to Usain Bolt in record run
By Peter Gilbert
Last Updated: 04/04/17 12:20pm
Brianna Lyston earned comparisons to Usain Bolt after the Jamaican schoolgirl sprinter blew away her rivals with a record run at the weekend.
The 12-year-old finished just over two seconds outside the senior world 200m record as she clocked 23.72 seconds over the distance at the 2017 Boys and Girls Championships.
Lyston blew away the field as she finished 0.88secs ahead of her nearest rival and only 2.38secs outside Florence Griffith-Joyner's world record set at the 1988 Olympics.
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Lyston also won Thursday's 100m in 11.86 seconds - 1.37secs behind Griffith-Joyner's world record set in Seoul 29 years ago.
Olympic sprint-king Bolt won his first medal at the same Kingston event when he earned silver as a 14-year-old in 2001.
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