With the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo just six weeks away, Bryan Levell has issued a strong warning to the 100m field, clocking a blistering personal best of 9.82 seconds to win the men’s 100m and break the meet record at the Raiffeisen Austrian Open Eisenstadt on Wednesday (23 July), a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event.
The 21-year-old Jamaican sprinter shaved more than a tenth of a second off his previous best of 9.94, set just weeks ago at the National Championships. With the result, Levell enters the record books as the eighth-fastest Jamaican in history over the distance.
His time also makes him the second-fastest man in the world this season, trailing only compatriot Kishane Thompson’s 9.75.
The top three fastest times in the men’s 100m now belong to Jaimaicans, with Oblique Seville just behind Thompson and Levell at 9.84.
Once dominant in the event, Jamaica has not claimed a men’s 100m world title since 2015, when Usain Bolt won in Beijing.