Apr 30th, 2019

Apr 30th, 2019

Teenage track and field star Matthew Boling has run the fastest 100m sprint ever recorded by a high school athlete over the weekend.

The 18-year-old, who is in his final year of high school at Strake Jesuit College in Houston, Texas, achieved the staggering feat at the State Regional Track Championships and has promptly become a viral sensation with video of the race wowing audiences world-wide.

One look at the footage and it’s not hard to see why. Its frankly mind-blowing, and his time of 9.98 (later corrected to a 9.97) is even harder to believe.

Those numbers not only make Boling’s dash the fastest run by a high-schooler across all conditions ever but also the fastest run by an American under the age of 20.

Matthew Boling sets new high-school 100m world record (Twitter)

A time of 9.97 would have landed him squarely amid the field at Olympic level but there’s more to the dazzling run than meets the eye.

While Boling’s raw untapped talent is undeniable, his record won’t stand because it was recorded with a tail wind assist of +4.2, a massive advantage in the fractional world of competitive sprinting.

However, he will still hold the record for the fastest ever 100m run by a high school athlete in any condition, making him the first American teenager to beat the 10-second mark since Trayvon Bromell (9.99sec) who was also assisted by a tailwind in 2013.

Uneblievably, Boling only began competing in the 100m again this year after focusing his efforts predominantly on the 200m, 400m, high jump and long jump of which he holds a host of state records.

Boling stars at Texas State (Twitter)

His weekend run was the first time Boling has focussed on the 100m since he was in primary school.

“It definitely felt good,” Boling said, according to The Houston Chronicle.

“My block start was pretty good and right out of the gate I knew it was going to be fast, so I decided to turn it up a little bit and ran my best. I was really happy with the time.”