Right as the world’s attention shifts to Tokyo for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, Jamaica has been given a new name to rally behind. On August 12 in Budapest, Bryan Levell stunned observers with a 200-meter run of 19.69 seconds at the István Gyulai Memorial. The mark was good enough to make him the third-fastest Jamaican in history, behind only Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. The result also placed him in the top five worldwide for the season, establishing him as a genuine contender on the international stage. For a nation accustomed to producing great sprinters, Levell’s rise feels both timely and essential.

The race in Hungary was not an isolated breakthrough. Just weeks earlier, he had delivered 9.82 seconds to win the 100 meters at the Raiffeisen Austrian Open Eisenstadt, a time

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