Noah Lyles captured the 100m world title on Sunday, finishing in 9.83 seconds for a victory that reshuffled the deck for next year’s Olympics
It was a victory that maybe only he and those close to him saw coming. The 200m specialist, who will defend his title in that event later this week, barely qualified for the 100 after battling with Covid in the lead-up to the US nationals last month.
But Kerley didn’t make it out of the semifinals and Lyles’s closest competition in the final came from Letsile Tebogo, a 20-year-old from Botswana, who finished in 9.87, .001sec ahead of Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes. Hughes’s bronze was the first time a British man had won an individual 100m medal at the world championships in 20 years.
“I came here for three golds, ticked off one, others are coming,” Lyles said. “[The] 100m was the hardest on ... I will have fun with the event I love now [the 200m]. Tebogo made some history of his own. His medal was the first won by an African man in the 100m at the world championships.
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