AAU Throwback: Analyzing Erriyon Knighton's Star-Making 200m

* MileSplit breaks down Erriyon Knighton's 20.33 200m effort at the 2020 AAU Junior Olympics.

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Three years ago in Florida, a 16-year-old Erriyon Knighton lit up the track on the AAU circuit.

At the 2020 AAU Junior Olympic Games, Knighton, at the time a junior at Tampa Hillsborough (FL), dominated the 15-16yo boys 200m final with a 20.33 (+0.3) for an AAU national record and one of the fastest times ever recorded in the world for the 16-year-old age group.

It put him just two-tenths of a second behind the world age group record of 20.13 (+0.0) set by none other than Olympic great Usain Bolt in 2003.

It was perhaps the first glimmer of the star power Knighton would eventually obtain on the world stage, as he would turn pro shortly after the Junior Olympics and go on to finish fourth in the 200m at the Tokyo Olympics and third in the same event at the 2022 World Championships.

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