Slade breaks prep sprint record to earn USATF Athlete of the Week honors

INDIANAPOLIS — Florida excessive schooler Jaylen Slade (Bradenton, Florida) gained the fan vote to earn USATF Athlete of the Week award after bettering the prevailing prep document within the males’s 200m.
 
Competing in a particular highschool part on the closing American Observe League meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Slade overcame a slight bobble out of the blocks and tore off the ultimate flip to cease the clock at 20.62 and take .01 off the earlier document, which was set in March 2016 by 2019 World Championships gold medalist Noah Lyles.
 
The 17-year-old IMG Academy junior has been undefeated in distances from 55m to 400m this indoor season, and final month ran the second-fastest highschool 300m ever with a 32.77 on the VA Showcase. His 200m time is the quickest on the earth in 2021 for U20 athletes and equals eighth on the all-time world U20 indoor listing.
 
Extra high performances:

• Raven Saunders gained the ladies’s indoor shot put competitors on the American Observe League meet, throwing a PR 19.57m/64-2.5.
• Allyson Felix made a uncommon indoor look and gained the ladies’s 200m on the American Observe League meet in an indoor lifetime finest 22.59.
• Christina Clemons ran a world-leading 7.81 to win the ladies’s 60m hurdles at Torun, Poland.
• Javianne Oliver ran 7.08, the highest U.S. time in 2021, to win the ladies’s 60m at Torun, Poland, equaling the world lead.
• Elise Cranny grew to become the No. 3 all-time American lady at 10,000m together with her 30:47.42 at The Ten in California.
• Grant Fisher moved to fifth on the all-time U.S. males’s 10,000m listing with a 27:11.29 at The Ten in California.

 
Now in its twentieth 12 months, USATF’s Athlete of the Week program is designed to acknowledge excellent performers in any respect ranges of the game. USATF names a brand new honoree every week when there are high-level competitions and options the athlete on USATF.org. Alternatives are based mostly on high performances and outcomes from the earlier week.
 
2021 Winners: January 21, KC Lightfoot; January 28, Ryan Crouser; February 4, Bryce Hoppel; February 11, Athing Mu; February 18, Elle Purrier; February 25, Jaylen Slade.
 
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To appoint an athlete for USATF Athlete of the Week, please ship an in depth electronic mail about his/her efficiency to communications@usatf.org.
 
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