Lyles Beats Olympic Champion Tebogo On 200m Return

Noah Lyles hit Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo successful nan men's 200m astatine nan Diamond League meet successful Monaco.

Botswana's Tebogo hit nan American successful nan Olympic 200m last past twelvemonth erstwhile it emerged aft nan title that Lyles, who came third, had tested affirmative for Covid.

Tebogo had besides gone into nan title successful Monaco having group a world starring 19.76 seconds erstwhile he won nan 200m astatine nan past Diamond League gathering successful Eugene connected 5 July.

Olympic 100m champion Lyles had not raced since a 400m tally successful April and past competed 338 days agone successful nan 200m.

Yet nan 27-year-old impressively held connected to triumph successful 19.88 arsenic Tebogo came successful 2nd successful 19.97.

"It was a awesome race, I'm really gladsome to beryllium healthy," said Lyles, who had not raced complete 100m aliases 200m this play anterior to Monaco. "This shows I'm still successful nan game.

"I put myself successful nan occurrence for that 1 coming backmost against Tebogo. But I didn't consciousness immoderate pressure, I don't spot immoderate logic to put unit connected myself - that's what we emotion to do."

Tebogo, 22, said he was "disappointed" successful his capacity but now has an "idea of what to activity on".

Sweden's Armando Duplantis won nan men's rod vault pinch 6.05m but missed retired successful his effort astatine adding a centimetre to nan world grounds tallness of 6.28m, while Emmanuel Wanyonyi, of Kenya, group a world-leading 1:41.44 successful nan men's 800m.

Dutchwoman Femke Bol impressed successful nan 400m hurdles for a world-leading 51.95 arsenic she hit Americans Dalilah Muhammad, who was 2nd successful 52.58, and third-placed Anna Cockrell (52.91).

"Running 51 is ever very special, I don't do that each day," said Bol. "I americium emotion bully truthful acold this season, I had a awesome commencement to it."

St Lucia's Julien Alfred put successful a ascendant capacity successful nan women's 100m arsenic nan Olympic champion won successful 10.79.

The adjacent Diamond League arena will return spot successful nan UK for a sold-out London Athletics Meet connected 19 July.

The finals will return spot successful Zurich connected 27 and 28 August - conscionable complete a fortnight earlier nan commencement of nan World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo, Japan.