Shericka Jackson and Noah Lyles both smash 200m sprint records at World Championships

By Ben Church, CNN

It was a spectacular night time of sprinting on the World Championships on Thursday as data tumbled in each the boys’s and girls’s 200m finals.

First, Shericka Jackson set a brand new nationwide and championship report after beating Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to gold.

The Jamaican dominated the race and gained in a time of 21.45 seconds — changing into the second quickest girl of all-time behind solely American Florence Griffith-Joyner.

It was shortly adopted by Noah Lyles retaining his title within the males’s race and smashing the American report beforehand set by Michael Johnson 26 years in the past.

Lyles is now the third quickest man over the space after clocking in at 19.31 seconds.

“At the moment is my day. I lastly bought to do what I dreamed of,” Lyles stated after the race. “I felt I bought the very best begin I might probably ask for.”

He was joined on the rostrum by two fellow Individuals — Kenny Bednarek in second and teenager Erriyon Knighton in third — because the US turned the primary nation to finish the clear sweep of World Championship medals in each the boys’s 100m and 200m.

“It’s an immaculate feeling to be on the rostrum with two fellow Individuals,” Lyles added.

‘Finest we’ve ever seen’

Whereas not finishing the total sweep within the girls’s race, Jamaica did full the 1-2 with Jackson and Fraser-Pryce method forward of Nice Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith in third.

Johnson, who noticed his report overwhelmed by Lyles, was working as a pundit for the ladies’s race and stated the standard was the “greatest we’ve ever seen.”

“I’m feeling nice. I got here out and placed on a present,” world champion Jackson stated. “The quickest girl alive, the nationwide and championship report, I can’t complain.”

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