Thailand’s sprint sensation, 16-year-old Puripol Boonson, has been named by the World Athletics as the Number One 100-metre sprinter in the Under-18 age group, with a record of 10.09 seconds, set at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships held in Colombia last Tuesday (August 2nd), according to the World Athletics website.

 

The previous record of 10.15 seconds was held by American sprinter Anthony Schwartz since 2017.

 

Puripol also set a national record of 20.19 seconds in the 200-metre sprint in Kazakhstan on June 27th. Despite joining the SEA Games for the first time in Hanoi in May, he won three golds.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/16-year-old-thai-boy-named-world-athletics-fastest-100m-under-18-sprinter/

 

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Well done. Asia rising  many places, many ways ! ????

Watched the U20's last week and was impressed by Boonson's showing in the 100m event. He finished 4th and only a poor start deprived him of a bronze medal. The top 2 were a class apart but being only 16 years old he clearly has immense potential. 

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2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

10.09

good work wow.

Great to see a positive Thailand story. Congratulations young fella. What a result!

Very impressive... 

 

Would love to see him in a few years competing in the World Championships and Olympics and doing Thailand proud. 

Compliments and congratulations for the boy..Thailand should do more to find and improve talents of the youth. 

Good news. Good luck to the boy.

Hope he can avoid the people who will offer to manage his career, tell him which races to throw etc. There’s a reason we don’t have many famous, international athletes.

He needs to get the right coaching and this is expensive. Will it be available in Thailand, I doubt it. Also will he have the dedication required to keep the training up. I certainly didn't.

17 hours ago, RanongCat said:

Well done. Asia rising  many places, many ways ! ????

"to provide financial support to Puripol, so he can be trained abroad by international coaches, alongside other world-class athletes. The campaign has been signed up to by more than 600 people in just two days.

The campaigner claimed that being trained abroad will offer athletes like Puripol a chance to improve their performance more effectively"

 

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Clearly a talented athlete. I don’t remember any Asian sprinters doing well in the past so he will be a big story if he continues to improve in a sport typically dominated by other ethnicities. Much like Tiger Woods, Naoya Inoue etc.

 

Hopefully he can avoid the pitfalls that ruins many young athletes when they taste fame, wealth, adoration etc.

 

 

On 8/10/2022 at 12:23 PM, RanongCat said:

Well done. Asia rising  many places, many ways ! ????

When regions or countries are  at very low levels across the board they can hardly fall any further. So the only way is up. 
 

This kid is a wonderfully naturally gifted individual and his great physical ability is nothing to do with “Asia” or birthplace ! 

17 hours ago, TropicalGuy said:

When regions or countries are  at very low levels across the board they can hardly fall any further. So the only way is up. 
 

This kid is a wonderfully naturally gifted individual and his great physical ability is nothing to do with “Asia” or birthplace ! 

Oh ? So his new world record is only because otrher  non Asia place  can not longer go any  faster ?

Natural gift or genetic capacity ? He beat themn all ! Asia rising from being allowed to compete honest. This  the  difference in non proffessional sport. No payment to lose !

 

On 8/11/2022 at 10:43 AM, LittleBear57 said:

He needs to get the right coaching and this is expensive. Will it be available in Thailand, I doubt it. Also will he have the dedication required to keep the training up. I certainly didn't.

Did you manage a 10.09s 100m sprint? I have no doubt he'll find a good coach and have the necessary motivation to continue. How do you think he reached 10.09 in the first place?

 

At 16, at 10.09s, he's already famous and a household name among the athletic community. The 100m is a gold ribbon event that makes people famous. He's going to let that go? It's already money in the bank.

Edited August 14, 20223 yr by JensenZ