Final yr, Wyatt Lee proved he was the quickest teenager in Canada. However this previous weekend in Toronto, he confirmed he is likely to be one of many quickest on the planet.
On Saturday on the 2026 Canadian Indoor Championships, the 17-year-old from Kingston, Ont., stepped up from the U20 division to face senior execs and Olympians within the males’s 60 metres occasion and left with a bronze medal and two new private bests.
Lee first lowered his time within the semifinals, clocking 6.67 to shave four-hundredths of a second off his earlier finest. He then rose to the event within the closing, trimming it once more to six.66 seconds to win his first particular person senior nationwide medal—bronze.
Canadian nationwide group sprinter Eliezer Adjibi gained the 60-metre race in a championship file 6.62, whereas former U Sports activities standout Niko Dowhos took silver in 6.65.
Meet the highschool sprinter leaving Canadian data within the mud
Lee’s time of 6.66 makes him the youngest Canadian ever to interrupt 6.70 seconds for 60 metres, doing so at 17 years and 295 days previous. The efficiency strikes him to fourth on the Canadian U20 all-time listing and leaves him simply 0.04 seconds shy of Bolade Ajomale’s nationwide U20 file of 6.62. With a yr and a half remaining within the U20 ranks, Lee could have a number of extra alternatives to problem that mark.
He’s additionally at the moment ranked eighth on the planet amongst U20 sprinters this season.
Lee is in his closing yr at Frontenac Secondary Faculty in Kingston and is anticipated to go to the NCAA subsequent fall. Whereas he has but to announce his dedication, he has taken a number of recruiting visits, together with one to Mississippi State College.
His rise has been fast. Final June, on the Ontario highschool championships, Lee turned the quickest highschool sprinter in Canadian historical pastbreaking Olympic gold medallist Carlton Chambers’ long-standing interscholastic 100m file of 10.41 seconds.
And given his regular development this season, dropping 0.05 seconds in lower than a yr, it should absolutely convey even quicker occasions come outside season within the 100m and 200m.
For full outcomes from the 2026 Canadian Indoor Observe and Subject Championships, see right here.
