Hungary Winning the 200m final on August 25, Noah Lyles won the 200m for the third consecutive time, and became the first athlete since Usain Bolt in 2015 to win both the 100m and 200m gold medals at a single World Championships.
Lyles started well and took the lead over teammate and one of his fiercest rivals, Erriyon Knighton, into the turn. By the last 100m, Lyles was on fire and crossed the line first in 19.51.
Lyles in the moment of winning the 200m final of the 2023 World Championships on August 25. Photo: AP
The 26-year-old American did not fulfill his dream of breaking Usain Bolt's record of 19.19 seconds, but became the second male runner after the Jamaican legend himself to win at least three 200m world gold medals. Lyles' previous records were 19.31 seconds at Eugene 2022 and 19.83 seconds at Doha 2019.
After his victory, Lyles held up two fingers to the crowd and television cameras to indicate that he had won the 100m and 200m double. On August 20, he became the new 100m champion with a time of 9.83 seconds, thereby retaining the prestigious gold medal for the US athletics for the fourth consecutive time.
"Of course I want to go faster, at least continue to break the American record," Lyles said after the win, recalling his 19.31 at Eugene 2022. "I have the ability to do that. But I'm happy with 19.51 in my sixth run of the race."
Noah Lyles won the 200m world final on August 25.
Knighton won silver in 19.75 seconds. The 19-year-old runner is pleased to have improved his results, from fourth, third and now second at major championships over the past three years.
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo continued his history-making run by winning bronze in 19.81 seconds. Five days earlier, he had won silver in the 100m in 9.88 seconds to break his country's record. Tebogo is only the second African to win a 200m world medal, after Namibian legend Frankie Fredericks, who won gold in Stuttgart in 1993 and silver in Tokyo in 1991, Gothenburg in 1995 and Athens in 1997.
In the women's 200m, Shericka Jackson won the gold medal with 21.41 seconds to break the record of 21.45 seconds set by herself when she won the Eugene 2022 championship. This is the second best result in history, only behind 12.34 seconds by Florence Griffith-Joyner at the Seoul Olympics 1988.
Shericka Jackson won the women's 200m.
Behind Jackson were the American duo, Gabby Thomas won silver in 21.81 seconds and Sha'Carri Richardson won bronze in 21.92 seconds. Richardson won her second medal at Budapest 2023, after winning gold in the 100m in a record 10.65 seconds, breaking the 10.67 mark set by Jamaican senior Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Eugene 2022 Games.
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