I'm not sure I've ever seen a male sprinter close on his competitors at a championship-level meet like Puripol Boonson just did anchoring the Thai 4X100 team at the Asian Championships.
Watch the guy in the outside lane.
His split was 8.8 seconds.
The fastest recorded anchor split in history was run by Usain Bolt in 8.65 seconds. But Bolt didn't have a soaking wet track to slow him down.
Boonson is a true statistical outlier. Thailand has no sprinting tradition, and yet Boonson is already, at only 20 years of age, the second faster Asian of all time, and faster than all but two white guys in history.
ABSOLUTELY FLYING!!! 🚀
Watch Puripol Boonson 🇹🇭 (lane 8) record an unofficial 8.8-second split to anchor Team Thailand to fourth place in the men’s 4x100m at the Asian Games in Nagoya.
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