Final 12 months, Wyatt Lee proved he was the quickest teenager in Canada. However this previous weekend in Toronto, he confirmed he is likely to be one of many quickest on the earth.
On Saturday on the 2026 Canadian Indoor Championships, the 17-year-old from Kingston, Ont., stepped up from the U20 division to face senior execs and Olympians within the males’s 60 metres occasion and left with a bronze medal and two new private bests.
Lee first lowered his time within the semifinals, clocking 6.67 to shave four-hundredths of a second off his earlier greatest. He then rose to the event within the ultimate, trimming it once more to six.66 seconds to win his first particular person senior nationwide medal—bronze.
Canadian nationwide workforce sprinter Eliezer Adjibi received the 60-metre race in a championship report 6.62, whereas former U Sports activities standout Niko Dowhos took silver in 6.65.
Meet the highschool sprinter leaving Canadian information within the mud
Lee’s time of 6.66 makes him the youngest Canadian ever to interrupt 6.70 seconds for 60 metres, doing so at 17 years and 295 days outdated. The efficiency strikes him to fourth on the Canadian U20 all-time listing and leaves him simply 0.04 seconds shy of Bolade Ajomale’s nationwide U20 report of 6.62. With a 12 months and a half remaining within the U20 ranks, Lee may have a number of extra alternatives to problem that mark.
He’s additionally at present ranked eighth on the earth amongst U20 sprinters this season.
Lee is in his ultimate 12 months at Frontenac Secondary College in Kingston and is predicted to go to the NCAA subsequent fall. Whereas he has but to announce his dedication, he has taken a number of recruiting visits, together with one to Mississippi State College.
His rise has been fast. Final June, on the Ontario highschool championships, Lee grew to become the quickest highschool sprinter in Canadian historical past, breaking Olympic gold medallist Carlton Chambers’ long-standing interscholastic 100m report of 10.41 seconds.
And given his regular development this season, dropping 0.05 seconds in lower than a 12 months, it’s going to certainly deliver even quicker occasions come outside season within the 100m and 200m.
For full outcomes from the 2026 Canadian Indoor Monitor and Subject Championships, see right here.
