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16-Year-Old Jamaican Student Breaks Usain Bolt's 400M Record

Usain Bolt's ancient running record destroyed by high-schooler

A remarkable feat unfolded at the 51st Carifta Games in Grenada, where a 16-year-old high school student from Jamaica, studying at Calabar High in Kingston, made headlines by shattering a record previously held by the legendary Usain Bolt for 22 years. Nickecoy Bramwell achieved this extraordinary milestone in the Boys 400m Dash U17 category at the games.

The record, set by Bolt in 2002 with a time of 47.33 seconds, was surpassed by Bramwell, who clocked in at 47.26 seconds, beating it by a mere 0.07 seconds. What makes this achievement even more impressive is that Bramwell was nursing a slight hamstring injury during the race.

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