Simply three weeks after Kingston, Ont., sprinter Wyatt Lee etched his identify into the Canadian document books, he’s executed it once more. On the OFSAA East Regional qualifiers on Could 30, Lee broke his personal nationwide U18 100m document to punch his ticket to the provincial championships.
The 17-year-old stopped the clock at 10.42 seconds (+0.9 m/s), reducing the ten.44 mark he set earlier this month by two one-hundredths of a second. He additionally broke the OFSAA East Regional meet document of 10.47 seconds, held by Segun Makinde since 2009.
That is Lee’s third U18 Canadian document of the 2025 season, including to his earlier marks over 100m and 60m (indoors). His newest time additionally ranks among the many high three U18 100m performances on this planet this 12 months.
Lee’s rise in sprinting has been nothing in need of extraordinary. In Could 2024, he ran the 100m for the primary time at a highschool meet in 11.51 seconds. Only one 12 months later, he has shaved greater than a second off his private finest—a major enchancment in an occasion recognized for its small margins.
When Lee broke Aaron Brown’s long-standing U18 document earlier this month, the Olympic gold medallist gave him a shoutout in an interview with CBC Sports activities. “, shout out to him. Data are supposed to be damaged,” Brown mentioned. “I’m blissful to see it.”
Brown added with amusing that his document had come on a much bigger stage—when he clocked 10.46 to win silver on the 2009 World Youth Championships in Italy.
Lee will look to make headlines once more on the 2025 OFSAA Championships in Toronto this weekend, the place he’s set to compete in each the senior boys’ 100m and 200m.
