BUDAPEST: There was double world sprint joy for Noah Lyles in Budapest on Friday (Aug 25) while the second fastest women's 200m run in history saw Shericka Jackson dash Sha'Carri Richardson's hopes of also achieving the 100/200m sweep. Lyles became the fifth man to do the double - and the first since Usain
BUDAPEST: There was double world sprint joy for Noah Lyles in Budapest on Friday while the second fastest women's 200m run in history saw Shericka Jackson dash Sha'Carri Richardson's hopes of also achieving the 100/200m sweep.
"I wanted to show I am different. Today I came out and showed it," said Lyles, who is the fourth American to do the double. Her time was just seven hundredths of a second slower than the world record of 21.34sec set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988. It was not the first time Bekh-Romanchuk has had to swallow that bitter pill as she took silver in the long jump in 2019.
The 25-year-old's 66.73m denied Colombia's Flor Denis Ruiz Hurtado, who threw 65.47m in the first round."At the beginning, I thought that I would be crying, but now, I just feel the happiness."Defending champion Athing Mu did not have the easiest of times in reaching the final, the 21-year-old American being elbowed by Mary Moraa before the bell.
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