Dexter Lee sighting more medals than records
An expert in the field of athletics ever since his high school days, Jamaican athlete Dexter Lee is a personality the whole world of athletics is aware of. Currently nineteen years of age, he is the defending champion of the hundred meters sprint at the IAAF World Junior Championships which will commence this week.
He has also accomplished the feat of being awarded with two global titles, the World Youth title in 2007 and the World Junior title in 2008, both being a strong testimony to the athletic potential of this Jamaican runner.
The list of accolades certainly do not expire here, as Dexter Lee has also grabbed a number of gold medals at several regional events; such as the CARIFTA, Central American as well as the Caribbean Junior tournament to name a few.
With a personal best of 10.16 seconds completion time in the arena of the hundred meters which he accomplished in Barcelona recently, Lee demonstrates athletic abilities unparalleled by any other athlete. This feat coincidentally is also the fastest for any athlete at this age.
It also needs to be reiterated that Dexter Lee displayed this tremendous athletic form while running against a strong wind of 0.9 meters per second, articulating further how pivotal this athlete is for the national athletic squad of Jamaica.
Just ahead of the commencement of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Dexter Lee has released a statement that although he will set foot on the field boasting of a personal best completion time that is also currently the joint best in the world, he has prepared himself for the fact that it is certainly not going to be an easy ride.
Competing this time in the category of the two hundred meters also, Lee will be hoping to add more to his current collection of four IAAF medals.
He has also praised his training partner Veronica Campbell Brown to a great extent. Lee revealed that she is always pushing other athletes to exert more effort, and is hence a great source of inspiration and motivation. This revelation is not surprising to believe, considering the fact that Brown herself is a double Olympic Champion at the two hundred meters racing arena.
While setting records to his name is definitely on his priority list, Dexter Lee has made it evident that acquiring medals is his major preference at the current period of time.
Nevertheless, the hundred meters IAAF World Junior Championships defending champion does have his eyes on the Jamaican national record, which is currently associated with Yohan Blake since 2007, with a worth appreciating time period of 10.11 seconds. Next on his list is the Championships record, which at present is honoured with Darrell Brown, with a tremendous completion time of 10.09 seconds.
While Dexter Lee is considerably new to the field of athletics, is it undeniable that his performances ever since his arrivals emanate a sense of athletic perfection, poise and physical strength that is definitely hard to discover in athletes his age.
If Lee continues to deliver performances like he has in the past, one is sure that he will be able to retain the title at the IAAF World Junior Championships for many more years to come.
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