Bouwahjgie Nkrumie

Bouwahjgie Nkrumie (born 16 February 2004) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competesin the 100 and 200 Meters. He is the current Jamaican U20 men's 100m record holder and the World Under-20 100m silver medallist.He is the first Jamaican U20 Athletes to break the 10- second barrier

Early life
Nkrumie is from Black River in St. Elizabeth Parish. He attended Kingston College, Jamaica.

Career
In April 2022, Nkrumie ran a new personal best time of 10.28s to win silver in the under-20 100 metres at the 2022 CARIFTA Games. At the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in August 2022, Nkrumie was a double silver medallist. He finished second in the 100m, running a new national junior record time of 10.02. He later also won silver as part of the Jamaican 4x100m relay team.

On 29 March 2023 at the ISSA Boy’s and Girl’s Championship, he ran a new personal best of 9.99s for the 100m at the national stadium in Kingston. This made him the first Jamaican junior in history to run under 10 seconds. He also became only the third junior in history to break the 10-second barrier, after Letsile Tebogo (9.91s) in 2022 and Trayvon Bromell (9.97s) in 2014. Speaking after the event Nkrumie said that despite the time he had not executed his technique perfectly and felt he could go faster.

Personal life
He is nicknamed “Dr Speed”.