Usain Bolt says he doesn’t think the current generation can break his world records

So far a new generation of track and field stars.

On Thursday, only two days from the start of the World Outdoor Track and Field Championships 2025 at National Stadium in Tokyo, the World 100-meter and 200-meter record holder Usain Bolt said during an event For Puma that he does not believe that the world’s current harvest has of sprinters what is needed to chase after his global signs.

Of course, the undisputed fastest man in the world in history can talk about the conversation.

Bolt’s World Record Times of 9.58 more than 100 meters And 19.19 seconds more than 200 meters have established the past 16 years. Only his colleague Jamaican Peer, Asafa Powell, has really come close since, with the times of 9.69 and 19.26 in 2012 and 2011, rank no. 3 and no. 2 in history. US Sprinter Tyson Gay had an American record of 9.69 a month after Bolt broke the world record in 2009.

A bolt after the career was pretty clear on Thursday.

“I think the talent is there,” he said. “There will be talented athletes, and they will do well. But at the moment I see no athlete being able to break the album, so don’t worry.”

Who may be able to chase after the records of Usain Bolt at the 2025 world championships

So are current athletes ready to let Bolt eat his words on worlds?

Don’t hold your breath yet. As in most years, the men aged 100 and 200 meters could come to a rigid battle between us and Jamaican athletes, from American stars such as Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek, to Jamaicans Kishane Thompson and Oblique Seville. However, nobody is approaching the proven records of Bolt.

The ruling Olympic and world champion Lyles has also not been perfect in 2025. In fact, he was beaten by both Thompson And Sluine Sevilla in August, in his setback at the first in Poland, Lyles ran a season-best time of 9.90 seconds more than 100 meters.

What the 28-year-old lyles has for him is a victory at the American championships more than 200 meters. There he defeated Bednarek in a tense race that one Physical confrontation On the finish line – The resident of Wisconsin pushed lyles with lyles Some Umph After the implementation. What is more, Lyles is the third best of all time of more than 200 meters, with his career-best time of 19.31 from the 2022 world championships at number 3 on the charts, only behind Blake and Bolt. Michael Johnson’s American record from 1996 defeated that performance.

If someone is going to break the records of Bolt this year, it can be lyles.

But again, let’s not forget Bednarek. There is no doubt that the 26-year-old had the best season of his career and clocked a career-best 9.79 seconds in his 100-meter victory over the US Championships. But at the moment there is a feeling that until he beats Lyles of Thompson or Seville in a worldwide environment, he who did not make the next jump as a global superstar.

If someone goes to beat lyles at his own game, it might be the 24-year-old Thompson. In fact, the Jamaican may be the man who defeated more than 100 meters.

He ran a career-best time of 9.75 seconds in June at the Jamaican championships and gave a performance that lands at number 5 on the charts of all time. Very few athletes also correspond to the physicality of Thompson. The Jamaican is a solid 6-foot-1 inches and mirrors the very best in Jamaican sprinters over the years.

The same cannot be said about Seville, who can clock at around 5-foot-7-inch. But not wrong Sevilla’s lack of physical makeup for talent. The 24-year-old won a number of really large races in 2025, including a battle for Lyles in the Diamond League final in Switzerland and another against Lyles in London, although he lost to Thompson in the Jamaican championships due to the eighth hundredth of a second.

How quickly the best men in the world will take up.

All this brings us back to Bolt, whose prediction has merit.

It becomes clearer by the year that what the Jamaican legend was achieved 16 years ago at the world championships in Berlin, was out of approach and will require a Herculean effort.

That said, does not mean that his figures are physically impossible to replicate. With the progress of shoe technology and better track surfaces in general, it is only a matter of time before history is made.

The only question is whether the current crop has what is needed.

Bolt, for what it is worth, says he is pretty sure that they don’t. Time will tell it in Tokyo for more than nine days.

“Everything evolves in life,” he said during the event. “People who try to get better try to get faster. It will be no surprise if it actually happens.”