Kanyinsola Ajayi Breaks Nigerian 100m Record and Makes History With Most Sub-10 Second Finishes in a Season

Kanyinsola Ajayi ran through the Nigerian 100 metres record and kept going. The clocking was another dip under ten seconds, and it moved him past every sprinter who has tried to stack legal sub-10s in one season.

Records of that kind are about health as much as speed. Staying on the track, staying legal with the wind, and still having a finish in August is the job. Ajayi has made the early part of it look like a habit. The Nigerian sprint conversation, which has waited for a man who could live with the global final, has a name at the front of it.

The championships will ask him to do it once, with a medal attached. The season so far says the speed is already there.