Noah Lyles’ time clocked in at 19.31 in the 200m race at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, which marked the third-fastest time in history and broke the American record.
“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.”
“I saw the time pop up and saw I tied Michael Johnson’s record," Lyles said of the initial glance at the clock. “I was like ‘Really, you’re going to do me like that?’”Hours after the victory, Johnson was down on the track talking with Lyles while a few dozen fans soaked in the scene. Johnson lifted Lyles' arm in the air for pictures. The new American record-holder.
Only defending champion Dina Asher-Smith of Britain, who won bronze, prevented a back-to-back Jamaican sweep. While the Jamaican medalists were the same as four nights ago — Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, who won bronze in the 100, finished seventh in this one — the Americans put a completely different trio on the stand.
“Everybody put in the work to be great, and that's what he did,” Knighton said. “I mean, he broke the American record.”
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