The US continues to dominate the world 100m distance
The big surprise in the men's 100m came in the semi-finals, when defending champion Fred Kerley was 0.01 seconds short, finished third with a record of 10 seconds 1 and could not make it to the final. Another candidate is Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy injured and absent from this year's tournament.
Therefore, Lyles - the 200m champion in the last two world championships - became the number one candidate. The progress of the final competition on August 20 proved that position of the 26-year-old runner. From fifth place at the 50 meter mark, the American athlete sprinted spectacularly to win the world 100m gold medal for the first time with a time of 9 seconds 83.
The difference between second and fourth place was just 0.004 seconds, when Anguilla-born British athlete Oblique Seville sped to overtake Jamaica's Oblique Seville just before the finish line. The three athletes behind Lyles all reached a time of 9 seconds 88. In which, Botswana athlete Letsile Tebogo won the silver medal with a time of 8 seconds 873, 0.001 seconds faster than Hughes and Seville had a time of 8 seconds 877.
Lyles's achievement helped the US continue to dominate the men's 100m content of the world tournament with the fourth gold medal in a row. Previously, this title belonged to Kerley at Eugene 2022, Christian Coleman in Doha 2019 and Justin Gatlin at London 2017.
Therefore, the world athletics has yet to find a new runner to dominate the men's 100m event like "Jamaican Lightning" Usain Bolt in the 2008-2017 period.
Lyles insists that he has not stopped, when raising his ambition to defend the championship in the 200m event and then finish the tournament with a 4×100 m gold medal in Budapest 2023. "I know what I have to do," said the 26-year-old athlete. "I came here to win three golds, one is done and others are coming. 100m is the hardest event, and now I'm going to enjoy the content that I love."
Born in 1997, Lyles was soon compared to the legendary Jamaican – Usain Bolt. He was nicknamed "Lightning Lightning", after winning 2 gold medals at Doha 2019 at distances of 200m and 4x100m. To Eugene 2022, Lyles defended the 200m championship, but only with the US team won the silver medal 4x100m.
Off the track, Lyles runs a non-profit organization with her brother Josephus, called the Lyles Brothers Sports Foundation, which supports underprivileged children who want to become professional athletes.
