Noah Lyles grew to become the world champion within the 200 meters on Thursday evening and took down one of many longest standing American monitor and discipline data within the course of.
Lyles, 25, completed his dash in 19.31 seconds — one hundredth of a second sooner than Michael Johnson’s then-world report of 19.32 seconds within the 1996 Summer time Olympics. Solely Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt (19.19) and Yohan Blake (19.26) have ever run sooner within the occasion.