Noah Lyles’s bid to win the indoor/outside dash triple got here up quick on Friday night in Glasgow as he completed three-hundredths of a second behind his Staff USA rival Christian Coleman within the males’s 60m closing 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 received out to an explosive begin and by no means regarded again, holding off a charging Lyles within the closing 10 meters.
Lyles was vying to develop into the primary sprinter to perform “the triple” of world titles: successful the 60m (indoors), and 100m and 200m (outdoor). The final athlete to take action was Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who received 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 advised Canadian Working. “That is the second-fastest time I’ve ever run, and other people 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 doubtless be the favourites to win the boys’s 100m title in Paris, however Lyles needs extra. “I wish to win the whole lot and break world information whereas doing it,” says Lyles. “That’s the objective.”
You’ll be able to stream the 2024 World Indoor Championships from Canada dwell on CBCSports and CBC, and the CBC Gem app. Canadian Working shall be dwell from Glasgow, reporting on the motion and that includes interviews with athletes as the whole lot unfolds. You’ll be able to observe our protection on Instagram or Twitter.
