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Erriyon Knighton, the 17-year-old senior from Tampa’s Hillsborough High School, came up agonizingly short of winning a medal Wednesday in the men’s 200-meter run at the Tokyo Olympics.
Knighton had a time of 19.93 seconds — just .19 seconds behind fellow American Noah Lyles for the bronze medal. Andre de Grasse of Canada took gold in 19.62 seconds. American Kenneth Bednarek won silver.
The future is bright for Knighton, who was competing in his first Olympics. He is the youngest U.S. male track Olympian since Jim Ryun in 1964. Earlier this summer, he broke the legendary Usain Bolt’s under-18 youth record.
– Joe Henderson, Extensive Enterprises Media