Kishane Thompson’s 2025 season had already turned heads when he cruised to 9.88s at the Racers Grand Prix in Kingston, a run that hinted he was building toward something big. A few weeks later, under the bright lights of the Jamaican National Championships, he delivered. The Jamaican exploded out of the blocks and clocked a time of 9.75s (+0.8 m/s). The crowd roared as the time flashed on the clock, a world lead, a stadium record, and the sixth-fastest 100m ever—the fastest legal time any athlete has clocked in the past 10 years.

Now the Olympian is heading to the Silesia Diamond League in Chorzów, Poland, for a 100m win against the biggest names in the discipline. Sprinters like Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles, who has lost only one 100m race this season, Akani Simbine, who’s sitting be

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