Retired Jamaican sprint icon Asafa Powell will be honoured with the 2024 Bleu & Bougie Impact Award at the upcoming Elite Weekend party series on March 16-17 at Devon House in St Andrew.

New York’s Bleu & Bougie co-producer, Jerry McDonald told Caribbean Life last Monday (March 4) that Powell will be honored for “the impact he has made in track and field globally.”

“We recognise Asafa for setting the 100-metre world record twice, between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds, and for consistently breaking the 10-second barrier in competition, with a personal best of 9.72 seconds, which ranks fourth on the all-time list of men’s 100-metre athletes,” McDonald said.

McDonald added that Powell, regarded as the “Sub 10 King” in athletics, has broken the 10-second barrier 97 times in the 100m, “which is more times than any other athlete.”

Powell joins an elite list of past Bleu & Bougie honorees including dancehall heavyweight Bounty Killa; Nadine Sutherland, reggae recording artiste; Cristy Barber, Grammy-nominated music producer and business executive; and Safaree (Lloyd Samuels) Love & Hip Hop TV star.

Also on the list is Kurt Riley, Jamaican producer disc jock; and actor Nick Creagan, whose credits include David Makes Man (Oprah Winfrey network), Law and Order: Organized Crime (NBC TV) and Joker in the TV series Batwoman.