Bowie teenager Quincy Wilson just made Olympic history

BOWIE, Md. — A Bowie teenager who doesn't even have a driver's license just made Olympic history. 

Quincy Wilson made Team USA for the Paris Olympic Games. At just 16 years old, he is the youngest U.S. male track & field athlete to make an Olympic team, according to Bill Mallon, an Olympics historian.

On Sunday, the young athlete secured a personal best time of 44.59 seconds and surpassed his own under-18 world 400-meter record in the semifinal to advance to the final. It's the second time he beat the record in two days after he clocked in 44.66 seconds on Friday, beating out other runners in his heat and grabbing the record for his own. 

Wilson is a rising junior at Bullis School in Bowie and is from Potomac, Maryland. 

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