Noah Lyles wins gold medal in men’s 100m final

Noah Lyles has won the men’s 100m final at the world championship as he aims to become the first man since Usain Bolt to triumph both at 100m and 200m at the worlds.

Noah Lyles 🇺🇲 wins the World 100m title in a PB & World Lead of 9.83s!

Behind him for the other positions:

🇧🇼 Letsile Tebogo – 9.88s (.873)
🇬🇧 Zharnel Hughes – 9.88s (.874)
🇯🇲 Oblique Seville – 9.88s(.877)pic.twitter.com/AaogatC5cD

— Track & Field Gazette (@trackgazette) August 20, 2023

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Noah Lyles books Paris Olympics place with 9.83 seconds

Lyles clocked a personal best of 9.83, edging out 2nd-placed Letsile Tebogo by 5 hundredths. Briton’s Zharnel Hughes finished in 3rd, clinching a bronze medal, one thousandth of a second behind second-placed Tebogo, who became the first African to win a medal at the worlds.

With his victory Lyles goes into the 200m with the ambition of clinching a double crown later this week.

Both reigning world champion Fred Kerley and Italian Marcell Jacobs (Olympic gold medalist) failed to make it out of the semifinals earlier on Sunday.