Little
Rudolph 'Blaze' Ingram is 1.5 seconds closer to following in the footsteps of
Usain Bolt as the fastest man on earth and he's only seven years old.
In a new
clip posted on the Florida boy's Instagram page Sunday, the youngster shows he
has improved since his staggering feat of completing a 100-meter race in 14.59
seconds last August.
The recent
video demonstrates how he can run the same distance in 13.48 seconds and also
dash 60 meters in only 8.69 seconds.
Rudolph
'Blaze' Ingram sprinted 100 meters in 13.48 seconds this past weekend
Florida boy
is a three-time Amateur Athletic Union winner and budding NFL star
Jamaican
sprinter Bolt recorded the fastest human foot speed during his 9.58-second
sprint in Berlin in 2009. He moved at a rapid rate of 27.8mph (44.72km/h) when
he covered the 20-meter distance between 60m and 80m in 1.61 seconds.
It's not
known at what speeds exactly Ingram darted across the track as he wore blue and
orange Nike sneakers and a kit featuring the flame of a fire, in a nod to his
nickname, but the child clearly outdid his peers.
He was
pictured with a serious look on his face as he got set in position for one of
the sprints in a photograph captioned: 'My Father Told Me (@ftf_kool ) That You
Win Mentally Before You Win Physically I'm #1 Before The Race Start.'
His dad -
who also manages his account - posted on Instagram about the incredible
improvement: 'Proud To Say My Son Maybe The Fastest 7 Year Old In The World. To
The Top Love All Those Hours Of Training Payed Off.'
The little
boy has even defeated long-limbed adults who have dared to challenge him and
has shared the moments he left them in the dust on his Instagram page of
approximately 301,000 followers.
Despite
being a social media influencer and fitness model, Ingram has shown he's
talented academically too.
'Work hard
in class and on the field,' an Instagram image of his February report card is
captioned.
It shows
full-mark A grades for Science, Introduction to Computers, Music and Physical
Education, plus B grades for Language Arts, Social Studies and Art at Cahoon
Elementary School in Tampa.
Three-time
Amateur Athletic Union winner Ingram, shot to popularity last August when he
showed off his speed on the football field.
With his
father an American football coach who introduced him to NFL stars Matt Jones,
Tarik Cohen and De'Anthony Thomas, it no wonder Blaze was able to dart between
members of the opposing team as a six-year-old at the time who was only
3-foot-11 and weighed 48 pounds.
The Cahoon
Elementary School student is known for his extreme dedication to sport in Tampa
Work hard:
Blaze received As and B grades on his recent report card, it was posted online
But his
father Rudolph Ingram Senior aka Coach Kool has drilled it in that only his
hard work has got him where he is today as an all-round great running back and
safety in the Tampa Bay Ravens Youth team class of 2028.
'I work hard
at practice to set the bar high for my teammates. I want to show them we need
to give it all we've got. If they don't know how to do something, I show them
how to do it,' Blaze told Youth 1 in 2017. 'I always tell them 'You practice
how you play.'
But his coach
Jimmy Watson told the publication the budding Florida Gators player can
constructively criticize his peers too.
'My players
see Blaze doing something they'll be right behind him. His eyes are always on
the prize,' he said. 'If one of his fellow teammates slacks, he walks up to
them individually and calls them out on it.'
Using his
track talent to help his football and vice versa, it was something that caught
the eye of basketball player LeBron James last summer. Since then the six-pack
boasting child has had hundreds of thousands of people around the world
watching his moves.
He even has
a fan in former NFL star Devin Hester, who he was pictured with recently.
Blaze – who
has had incredibly toned abs since he was five - even has a younger brother on
the come up. But at only four years old, his sibling isn't as skilled just yet.
Dubbed Mr
Wrong Way, the tiny football player shot into the spotlight last October for
mistakenly running with the ball in the opposite direction but he managed to
turn it around and score touchdowns in the game.
His social
media catchphrase on an account, also managed by his father, seems to be: 'It's
not how you start it's how you finish.'
At his first
ever track meet race this past weekend the little boy was slightly distracted
by all the attention and came in fifth out of pint-sized six sprinters.
Not one to
take himself too seriously, commenters on his social media account - which has
more than 8,000 followers - noted how he would look directly into the stands
where the camera was placed while legging it across the track.
Ingram Sr
joked in his own posted about the video: 'This My Baby Man He So Funny Don’t
Worry Ima Get Him Right.'
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