Noah Lyles’s bid to win the indoor/out of doors dash triple got here up quick on Friday night in Glasgow as he completed three-hundredths of a second behind his Group USA rival Christian Coleman within the males’s 60m last on the 2024 World Indoor Championships.
Coleman ran a world-leading time of 6.41 seconds to win the gold. Lyles completed second with a time of 6.44 seconds. Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake got here third, operating 6.46.
That is Coleman’s second profession world indoor 60m title, and likewise redemption after shedding to Lyles finally month’s U.S. Indoor Championships. Coleman bought out to an explosive begin and by no means regarded again, holding off a charging Lyles within the last 10 meters.
Lyles was vying to change into the primary sprinter to perform “the triple” of world titles: profitable the 60m (indoors), and 100m and 200m (outdoor). The final athlete to take action was Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who gained gold in all three occasions from 2013 to 2014.
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Regardless of shedding to Coleman, Lyles was happy with his 60m world indoor silver medal. “I ran a PR and improved my 60m time; I’m OK with this 6.44,” Lyles informed Canadian Operating. “That is the second-fastest time I’ve ever run, and folks had been saying I wasn’t a 60m man–take a look at me now.”
Lyles is assured that his success over the 60m this season will translate outdoor. “I’ve improved the worst a part of my race considerably,” says Lyles. “I’m not afraid; I’m extraordinarily excited now.”
Coleman and Lyles will seemingly be the favourites to win the lads’s 100m title in Paris, however Lyles desires extra. “I wish to win all the pieces and break world information whereas doing it,” says Lyles. “That’s the aim.”
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