Bryan Levell
Bryan Levell is a Jamaican sprinter. He won the Jamaican Athletics Championship over 200 metres in 2024 and 2025, competed in the 200m at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and won the bronze medal over 200 metres at the 2025 World Championships, running a personal best time of 19.64 seconds in the final.
Early life
He attended Edwin Allen High in Frankfield, Jamaica.Career
He was a silver medalist in the relay at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi.He finished sixth in the 200 metres final at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. He was a silver medalist in the relay at the championships. Despite missing part of 2023 with injury, he turned professional in 2023 to be coached by Shanikie Osbourne in Kingston, Jamaica.
2024: Olympic debut
He ran as part of the Jamaican relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.Competing at the Jamaican national championships in June 2024, he won the 200 metres title, running a personal best time of 19.97 seconds. At the championships, he also lowered his personal best to 10.07 seconds for the 100 metres in the first qualifying heat. In the semi-final, he broke the 10-second barrier for the first time, running 9.98 seconds. In the final, he finished in fourth place in a time of 10.04 seconds He competed in the 200m at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he reached the semi-finals.
2025: World Championships medalist
On 24 April 2025, he was named in the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China in May 2025. He was a silver medalist the inaugural Mixed 4 x 100 metres in China, running the final alongside Krystal Sloley, Javari Thomas, and Serena Cole. That month, he was named as a challenger for the short sprints category at the 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia, finishing second in the 100 metres with a time of 10.02 seconds. He ran a wind-assisted 200 metres in 19.79 seconds on 7 June 2025, to win the Racers Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, in Kingston, Jamaica. He ran a personal best 9.94 seconds for the 100 metres at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in June 2025, however in the final appeared to pull-up with a leg issue and placed eighth. He returned the following day to win the national 200 metres title in a time of 20.10 seconds. The next month, he lowered his personal best for the 100 metres to 9.82 seconds whilst competing in Austria.In September 2025, he was a bronze medalist in the 200 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, with a personal best time of 19.64 seconds in the final.