Oakville youth wins North American sprinting title

A 10-year-old boy from Oakville, Ont., is in his first year of competitive running, and he’s already a North American champ in the 100m.

Ibrahim Ayorinde clocked in at 13.47 at Hershey’s Track and Field North American finals in Hershey, Penn., last weekend, winning the gold medal at the championship that attracts competitors from across Canada and the U.S., according to the Oakville Beaver.

“I believe next year he’ll be running (the 100 metres) in 12 seconds,” Ted Neptune, Ayorinde’s coach at the Oakville Legion Track & Field Club, told the paper. Neptune who refers to the boy as the ‘young Bolt.’

Neptune also says the competition in Hershey is tough – he’s never had an athlete win a medal at the Hershey finals during the time he’s been coaching at Oakville Legion.

“I thought I would be in the top three. I didn’t know I would win,” Ayorinde told the paper. “I was really nervous, so I got a lot of adrenaline.”