WORLD LEADER COLEMAN PREPARED FOR HIS TURN IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Coleman, 21, is the youngblood in the 100m dash at these World Championships. He can rightly lay claim to being the fastest man of 2017 after clocking 9.82 at the NCAA Championships in Eugene on 7 June. It was a performance that topped off one of the finest collegiate sprint seasons ever produced and which sent a loud message to the future of the event.

Coleman also took the 200m title at those NCAA championships, two weeks after a 19.85 clocking in Lexington, Kentucky, currently the third fastest time of the year. He was undefeated in finals until the national championships in Sacramento, where he finished second in both the 100m in 9.98 and the 200m in 20.10. In London he’ll be beginning the next phase of his career focusing solely on the 100m.