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| Nationality | Jamaican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 February 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100m, 200m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bouwahjgie Nkrumie (born 16 February 2004) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competesin the 100 and 200 Meters . He is the current Jamaican U20 men's 100m record holder and the World Under-20 100m silver medallist.He is the first Jamaican U20 Athletes to break the 10- second barrier
Nkrumie is from Black River in St. Elizabeth Parish. [1] He attended Kingston College, Jamaica. [2]
In April 2022, Nkrumie ran a new personal best time of 10.28s to win silver in the under-20 100 metres at the 2022 CARIFTA Games. [3] At the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in August 2022, Nkrumie was a double silver medallist. He finished second in the 100m, running a new national junior record time of 10.02. [4] He later also won silver as part of the Jamaican 4x100m relay team. [5]
On 29 March 2023 at the ISSA Boy’s and Girl’s Championship, he ran a new personal best of 9.99s for the 100m at the national stadium in Kingston. [6] This made him the first Jamaican junior in history to run under 10 seconds. He also became only the third junior in history to break the 10-second barrier, after Letsile Tebogo (9.91s) in 2022 and Trayvon Bromell (9.97s) in 2014. [7] [8] Speaking after the event Nkrumie said that despite the time he had not executed his technique perfectly and felt he could go faster. [9]
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