Noah Lyles Lands 200m Gold At World Championships

October 3, 2019 Charley Sconlan Other Comments Off on Noah Lyles Lands 200m Gold At World Championships

The 22-year-old has now picked up a World title and looks set to be the next face of the sport following the retirement of Usain Bolt. Could he also now go on and break either the 100m or 200m world records in the future? This comes following him besting Bolt’s meeting record over 200m in Paris at the Diamond league early this season.

Following his recent victory in Doha, in post-race comments he as confirmed that he will be challenging for both the 100m and 200m at the Olympics in Tokyo next year. This is exciting news for the sport and also means it sets up for a fascinating duel between two Americans in him and Christian Coleman. The latter of course coming off the back of winning Gold in the 100m at this World championships in Doha. 

This is good news for the sports blue riband event and adds to the anticipation ahead of the 2020 Olympics. Does this mean he can now become the heir apparent to the hugely missed Usain Bolt? Despite this victory, Coleman is the strong favourite to land the 100m next year, which is shown in the continued to support for him from punters using online casino bonus US offers. Coleman has a PB of 9.76s in comparison to Lyles 9.86s.

Noah Lyles came into the Doha following a remarkable season that has seen him climb up to the top of sport and start as the overwhelming favourite. He capped off the season with victory, running 19.83 seconds. This well below his PB of 19.50 but the importance was the fact he picked up his first global title. 

Noah Lyles has now raced over 200m ten times this season. He has won eight of these that includes victories in Switzerland, France, Belgium, USA and of course Qatar. The first loss came in his opening run of the season, when just losing out to 400 metre specialist Michael Norman. Six wins followed this, which brought him into the World championship as the clear favourite. However, he was then beaten in his opening heat when easing down heavily, running a time of 20.26. Lyles was then victorious in both the semi-final and the final to cap of a memorable campaign. Big things will now be expected of him as the USA completed dominated the sprint distances.