Noah Lyles turns the table on Erriyon Knighton at US Olympic trials

World champion Noah Lyles turned the tables on Erriyon Knighton to win the lads’s 200m on Sunday’s (28 June) closing day of the 2021 US Olympic trials in Eugene, USA.

Lyles, who was approach off his greatest going into the ultimate, discovered type to blaze to a world-leading 19.74 clocking.

He sightly trailed Kenny Bednarek off the curve and gave it his all down the homestretch. He ran throughout the road along with his left hand within the yr in celebration.

Knighton, who beat Lyles within the semi-finals and heats, discovered himself sixth on the prime of the curve. He completed robust, however his private greatest effort was not sufficient to catch Lyles.

His 19.84 secs is a brand new world junior (U20) document, reducing his semi-final mark of 19.88. Usain Bolt 19.93 had held the world junior document since 2004.

Bednarek completed third in 19.78, additionally a private greatest, to e book his ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Video games subsequent month (July).

Sydney McLaughlin beat Dalilah Muhammad’s world document mark of 52.16 by operating 51.90 within the girls’s 400m hurdles. Muhammad was second in 52.42.

Athing Mu, who recently signed a pro contract with Nike, ran a personal best, world-leading and meet record 1:56.07 to win the ladies’s 800m.

Cole Hocker topped the lads’s 1500m in a private greatest 3:35.25.

Taliyah Brooks collapsed on Sunday’s second and closing day of the ladies’s Heptathlon as a result of scorching temperatures at Hayward Discipline that reached a document excessive. She was not in a position to end the competitors after being pressured to be examined.

The ladies’s sprints can be scorching at this summer season’s Toyko Olympic Video games. Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and defending dash double champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, together with People Sha’Carri Richardson and Gabby Thomas (200m), Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Dina Asher-Smith of Nice Britain.