Barely a month after her 17th birthday last summer, the British sprinter Amy Hunt ran a 200m so fast that her spikes were actually smouldering as she crossed the finish line. And so, emphatically, were the record books. Hunt’s time of 22.42sec in Mannheim in June not only broke the women’s under-18 world record – the men’s version is held by a certain Usain Bolt – and was the third fastest ever by a British woman, but it would have won a bronze medal behind Dina Asher-Smith at the recent world championships.
“It was 39C that day in Germany and honestly my feet were so hot that my spikes melted a little,” Hunt says, laughing. “It was my overriding memory. I don’t remember what happened between 50m and 150m – it was all a bit of a blur. Afterwards I went back and told my coach that I never believed I would run a time like that, but he immediately replied that I did!”
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