The American is track and field\u2019s youngest world champion but you won\u2019t find the 17-year-old boasting about his achievements <\/p>\n
We are in living in the era of teenage super talents. On Saturday, Mirra Andreeva won the French Open<\/a> at 19. Spain\u2019s Lamine Yamal, at 18, is one of the favourites for the World Cup\u2019s golden ball. Then there is Cooper Lutkenhaus, the 17-year-old American<\/a> already making the world\u2019s best athletes gasp for air and reach for superlatives, who may yet prove the best of the bunch.<\/p>\n True, it is early days. But Lutkenhaus is already track and field\u2019s youngest world champion, having won 800m indoor gold in March<\/a>. On Sunday, he added to his CV with victory against a top-class field<\/a> in his first Diamond League race. But it was what his rivals said afterwards in Stockholm that left the deepest mark.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The American is track and field\u2019s youngest world champion but you won\u2019t find the 17-year-old boasting about his achievements We are in living in the era of teenage super talents. On Saturday, Mirra Andreeva won the French Open at 19. Spain\u2019s Lamine Yamal, at 18, is one of the favourites for the World Cup\u2019s golden … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}