{"id":21987,"date":"2022-07-22T06:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/sprinter-noah-lyles-sets-american-record-in-200-meters-wins-world-title-in-19-31-seconds-as-us-men-take-top-3-spots-at-track-and-field-championships\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T06:07:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:07:44","slug":"sprinter-noah-lyles-sets-american-record-in-200-meters-wins-world-title-in-19-31-seconds-as-us-men-take-top-3-spots-at-track-and-field-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/sprinter-noah-lyles-sets-american-record-in-200-meters-wins-world-title-in-19-31-seconds-as-us-men-take-top-3-spots-at-track-and-field-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprinter Noah Lyles sets American record in 200 meters, wins world title in 19.31 seconds as US men take top 3 spots at track and field championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
EUGENE, Ore. — Noah Lyles crouched down, put his hands on his knees and glared at the clock. Not seeing what he’d hoped for, he waved his hand dismissively and walked back onto the track to celebrate what was still a long-awaited win in the 200 meters at the world championships.<\/p>\n
Oh, but this night would just keep getting better.<\/p>\n
The clock that, for a moment, read “19.32,” would adjust down a tick to “19.31.” That meant he broke Michael Johnson’s hallowed, 26-year-old American record — a mark that, for decades, seemed unapproachable.<\/p>\n
“I was very self-concerned about whether that number was going to turn from a ‘2’ to a ‘1,’” Lyles conceded after Thursday night’s history-making win.<\/p>\n
it did.<\/p>\n
Then, a few seconds later, the scoreboard that, at first, only had Lyles’ name on it, popped up with the names of the two finishers behind him: Kenny Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton of the US The US had swept the 200, just as it had the 100 four nights earlier.<\/p>\n
Lyles pounded his hand on the track four times, stood up straight and ripped off his jersey. He grabbed his medal from the presenter, then went over and hugged his family and took hold of an American flag – one of many that have been needed at the first world championships to be held in the United States.<\/p>\n
The sweep gave the US 22 medals through seven days.<\/p>\n
“America’s, like, scooping up medals left and right,” Lyles said. “This feels great because I’ve been waiting for America to come out and dominate since I got on the platform.”<\/p>\n
Lyles’ 19.31 was the third-fastest time in history, behind only Usain Bolt’s 19.19 in 2009 and a 19.26 run two years later by another Jamaican, Yohan Blake, while he was briefly pushing Bolt for supremacy.<\/p>\n
But Johnson and those gold shoes that crossed the line in 19.32 at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 hold a titanic place in track history, too. Johnson ran it 352 days before Lyles was born. The number “19.32,” stood there, teasing and taunting, for decades — an especially awe-inspiring mark for any fast kid with big dreams in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t want to see ’32,’ I didn\u00b4t want to share a record,” Lyles said of his reaction immediately after the race. “Nobody wants to share a record. I think even Michael Johnson doesn’t want to share a record. So I was just begging it to change.”<\/p>\n
\nBACK-TO-BACK \ud83e\udd47 AND A NEW AMERICAN RECORD IN THE 200M FOR NOAH LYLES \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n
19.31 breaks Michael Johnson’s 19.32 record by .01 seconds!@LylesNoah<\/a> | @TeamUSA<\/a><\/p>\n
(via @NBCOlympics<\/a>)pic.twitter.com\/aonYFnQ8VL<\/a><\/p>\n