Athing Mu runs American record at Prefontaine Classic

Lower than a month after successful the 800m Olympic gold in Tokyo, Athing Mu bettered her American document over the two-lap race on the Prefontaine Basic on Saturday afternoon, stopping the clock at 1:55.04.

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The 19-year outdated improved her earlier American document by .17 seconds and set a meet document. Mu has received seven straight races since turning skilled on June 19.

“I knew this was most likely going to be a little bit more durable coming off the Olympic video games and working a private greatest there,” Mu mentioned to reporters. “I used to be not involved in regards to the time, I simply needed to run with whoever is there and to be aggressive.”

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Mu led from begin to end, masking the primary lap in 54.60. She beat the sphere by 2.5 seconds as her fellow American Kate Grace completed second in 1:57.60 and Jamaican Natoya Goule was third in a time of 1:57.71.

Mu was not the one American who dazzled on the observe. Noah Lyles, who fell quick with a bronze medal end within the males’s 200m in Tokyo, ran a world-leading 19.52 Saturday. 

Lyles had this to say on Twitter after the race:

EVERY TIME I LOSE I COME BACK STRONGER 19.52!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/EMucvdyAjb

— Noah Lyles, OLY (@LylesNoah) August 21, 2021

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Lyles’s brother, Josephus Lyles had a private greatest efficiency of 20.03 seconds and completed third within the race, behind Kenny Bednarek (19.80) and above Canada’s Aaron Brown, who completed fourth in 20.12. Canadian Jerome Blake made his Pre Basic debut, clocking a private greatest time of 20.20 over the half-lap race and ending sixth.