• Noah Lyles delivered a ruling execution to hold his 200 meters title.
• 19.31 seconds at the World Championships on Thursday, turning into.
• Third-quickest competitor ever over the distance and driving a subsequent platform clear.

Noah Lyles tore open his shirt after the completion as the home group in Eugene, Oregon, thundered with endorsement. And also offered a hug to equal Knighton.

Tokyo bronze medalist Lyles drove at the midpoint and detonated through the completion, with comrades Kenny Bednarek (19.77) and 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton (19.80) fighting out of the turn and down the straight for silver and bronze.

“Today is my day – I at long last got to do what I longed for,” he said on target subsequent to breaking four-time Olympic top dog Michael Johnson’s public record, which had remained beginning around 1996. “I got my entire family here.”

Lyles’ time was at first shown as 19.32, which would have tied Johnson’s record. In any case, it was then refreshed to an authority 19.31 when his back was turned, with the 25-year-old obviously dazed when he saw the new figure on the clock.

Lyles jumped on the rear of World Championships mascot Legend and rode across the track after the platform function inside Hayward Field to the enjoyment of the fans.

Thursday’s race was the second 1-2-3 for U.S. men in Eugene after Fred Kerley, Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell cleared the 100m.

It is whenever any nation first has cleared the two men’s runs around the same time at the universes.

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