This Sunday in Tokyo, the title of world’s quickest man is up for grabs, and the world file holder, Usain Bolt, has a daring prediction about who will probably be.
Bolt met with the media at Puma’s Way forward for Quick occasion in Tokyo on Thursday, the place he fielded questions starting from how briskly he might run with at the moment’s shoe expertise to who he thinks will win the boys’s 100m world championship title.
“There’s no cause why they shouldn’t be 1-2 [in the men’s 100m in Tokyo].”
Speaking at a @PUMA occasion earlier than the World Athletics Championships, @usainbolt believes Kishane Thompson and Indirect Seville can take residence gold and silver for Jamaica 🇯🇲
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— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) September 11, 2025
Though Noah Lyles arrives in Tokyo because the reigning world and Olympic champion, Bolt doesn’t suppose the American will retain his gold. As a substitute, Bolt predicted a Jamaican 1–2 end, with compatriots Kishane Thompson and Indirect Seville atop the rostrum.
“There’s no cause they shouldn’t be 1–2. They’ve the quickest instances on the earth this yr, and so they’ve been doing properly,” stated Bolt on the 2 Jamaican sprinters. “It’s all about whether or not they can execute and ignore the noise, and I’m very assured they will get it performed.”
Thompson, the Olympic silver medallist within the 100m, holds the quickest time on the earth this yr together with his 9.75-second run on the Jamaican Observe and Subject Championships in June. The 24-year-old enters Tokyo as world No. 1 within the males’s 100m and shall be seeking to get redemption in opposition to Lyles, who beat him by one-hundredth of a second final summer time in Paris.
Bolt has additionally lengthy considered Seville as the subsequent nice Jamaican sprinter, noting that he’s coached by Glen Mills, the identical man who guided Bolt for greater than a decade.
The final time a Jamaican sprinter reached the boys’s 100m podium at a world championship was when Bolt himself gained bronze in London 2017. When you ask any Jamaican observe and subject fan, they’ll say a medal is lengthy overdue.
Outdoors of the Jamaican duo, People Kenny Bednarek and Lyles will look to show the three-time Olympic 100m champion improper. Lyles has overwhelmed Thompson in two of their final three conferences, with Thompson’s solely win coming on the Silesia Diamond League in Poland.
Seville holds three wins in his 5 matchups with Lyles, however he has fallen simply brief on the final two world championships — ending fourth in each Budapest 2023 and Eugene 2022.
For Canadian viewers, the boys’s 100m semifinals and ultimate will happen Sunday at 7:40 a.m. ET, the place Bolt shall be readily available to crown the subsequent world’s quickest man—a title he as soon as held for therefore lengthy.
