Watch how fast this boy runs in the video below.

Video credit: The Sun

An 18-year-old American student won a 100m run race with a period that is just 0.4 seconds slower than Usain Bolt’s world record.

Matthew Boling ran the inconceivable race in 9.98 seconds, effectively outsprinting every other person in the race at a meet in Houston, Texas.

Tragically for the Strake Jesuit College Prep understudy, his time won’t be classed as an official record due to the 4.2mph tailwind behind him, however, his time is as yet the quickest time that any American younger than 20 has ever accomplished.

Boling has the moniker ‘White Lightning’ and with this sort of speed available to him, you can perceive any reason why.

He plans to attempt to fit the bill for his nation at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and on the off chance that he props his advancement up how it is, not many would back against him accomplishing that objective.

Be that as it may, the official record for Americans under 20 in the 100m dash still has a place with Trentavis Friday, who ran the separation in 10 seconds level in 2014.

After his endeavors on the track, Boling told the Houston Chronicle: “It definitely felt good. 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.

“I just have to get ready for that four seconds where I’m nervous and then, like, after that, it’s just smooth.”

That is sufficiently reasonable. He has each option to be satisfied with that time, regardless of whether it was marginally wind helped.

Things being what they are, what next for the young fellow? All things considered, just as his Olympic dream, Boling plans to go to the University of Georgia in September and will apparently turn into an installation promptly on their NCAA run group.

He’s additionally got two weeks to get ready for the Texas state finals meet. You’d envision his opponents are feeling to some degree apprehensive about confronting him.

Boling said about his nickname: “Some people call me the bogeyman. I heard some people calling me the horseman. I’ve heard different stuff.”

I think I’d favor being known as ‘White Lightning’ to being called ‘bogeyman’ or ‘horseman’. Simply an issue of individual inclination, I presume.

His father is really damn glad for him. Imprint Boling told journalists that his child’s speed and physicality is unquestionably not hereditary, letting them know: “He just has a work ethic that is beyond anything I’ve ever seen from anybody.”

 

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