Double world 100m champion Noah Lyles’s string of wins continued on the London Diamond League on Saturday, the place he blasted a 9.81 (-0.3s) to set a brand new private finest by two hundredths of a second, simply 13 days out from the beginning of the Olympic Video games in Paris. It’s the third quickest time this yr; he’s thought of the favorite for the gold medal in Paris. (The commentators mistakenly mentioned it was a gathering file; it was not.)
The highest three males all ran below 9.9; South Africa’s Akani Simbine was second, with a season’s finest 9.86, and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, who received silver on the 2023 World Athletics Championships, scored a brand new PB and nationwide file of 9.88.
Quicker than ever 😤
World champ @LylesNoah clocks a 9.81 PB as he wins the 100m on the @London_DL 🚀
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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 20, 2024
The lads’s 100m preliminaries and heats are scheduled for Day 2 of competitors (Friday, Aug. 2).
British file for Keely Hodgkinson
Group Nice Britain had a superb day in London; Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson smashed her private finest with a world-leading 1:54.61, which additionally lowered her British nationwide file. Her time is the sixth faatest ever run. Her teammate, Jemma Reekie, was second, in 1:57.45, and Georgia Bell third, with a brand new PB of 1:56.28.
1:54.61 🤯@keelyhodgkinson storms to an enormous nationwide file and world lead in entrance of her house crowd.
She now could be the sixth quickest athlete in historical past over 800m 😮💨
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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 20, 2024
The heats of the ladies’s 800m are scheduled for Friday, Aug. 2.
Within the ladies’s 4x100m relay, Group Canada (consisting of Sade McCreath, Jacqueline Madogo, Marie-Eloise Leclair and Audrey Leduc) had a troublesome day on the workplace, fumbling two of their exchanges and in the end receiving a DNF. Group GB took first and third, with Group France ending second.
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