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Nationality | Jamaican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 23 December 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100m: 9.82 (Eisenstadt, 2025) 200m: 19.69 (Budapest, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bryan Levell (born 23 December 2003) is a Jamaican sprinter. He became Jamaican champion over 200 metres in 2024. [1]
He attended Edwin Allen High in Frankfield, Jamaica. [2] [3]
He was a silver medalist in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi. [4]
He finished sixth in the 200 metres final at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [5] He was a silver medalist in the 4 × 100 m relay at the championships. [6]
Despite missing part of 2023 with injury, [7] he turned professional in 2023 to be coached by Shanikie Osbourne in Kingston, Jamaica. [8]
He ran as part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. [9] [10]
Competing at the Jamaican national championships in June 2024, he won the 200 metres title, running a personal best time of 19.97 seconds. [11] At the championships, he also lowered his personal best to 10.07 seconds for the 100 metres in the first qualifying heat. [12] In the semi-final, he broke the 10-second barrier for the first time, running 9.98 seconds. In the final, he finished in fourth place in a time of 10.04 seconds [13] [14] He competed in the 200m at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he reached the semi-finals. [15] [16]
On 24 April 2025, he was named in the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China in May 2025. [17] He was a silver medalist the inaugural Mixed 4 x 100 metres in China, running the final alongside Krystal Sloley, Javari Thomas, and Serena Cole. [18] [19] That month, he was named as a challenger for the short sprints category at the 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia, finishing second in the 100 metres with a time of 10.02 seconds. [20] [21] He ran a wind-assisted 200 metres in 19.79 seconds (+2.5 m/s) on 7 June 2025, to win the Racers Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, in Kingston, Jamaica. [22] He ran a personal best 9.94 seconds for the 100 metres at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in June 2025, however in the final appeared to pull-up with a leg issue and placed eighth. [23] [24] He returned the following day to win the national 200 metres title in a time of 20.10 seconds. [25] The next month, he lowered his personal best for the 100 metres to 9.82 seconds whilst competing in Austria. [26] He was selected for the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [27]