Gout Gout Sets New World Best in ‘Race I’ve Been Needing’
Noah Lyles won in 14.67 seconds, while Gout Gout set an Australian junior record of 14.96 and finished third.
- American champion Noah Lyles clocked a world-best 14.67 seconds to win the rare 150m race at the Golden Spike meet in Ostrava on Tuesday, with Australian rising star Gout Gout finishing third in 14.96, setting a new world under-20 mark.
- Gout bounced back from a difficult Diamond League debut in Oslo last week, where a sixth-place finish prompted Olympic 200m gold medallist Letsile Tebogo to suggest the Australian should return to junior competition.
- Lyles and Gout hugged after the race, with Gout noting the difficulty of the staggered 150 start without blocks. "It's very hard to get used to running from a staggered 150 start," Gout said.
- Elsewhere in Ostrava, Australian veteran Peter Bol achieved a historic victory in the 1000m, clocking a national record of 2:15.13 after narrowly defeating Netherlands runner Samuel Chapple by seven hundredths of a second.
- With the under-20 world championships approaching in July, Gout told commentator Mitch Dyer he wants to keep "walking into the fire," planning further training to refine his starts before the major event.
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Athletics-American Lyles sets world best in rarely run 150 metres
June 17 (Reuters) – American Noah Lyles took a quarter of a second off the world’s best time to clinch victory in the rarely-run 150 metres at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. Lyles, the Olympic 100m champion and four-times 200m world champion, clocked 14.67 seconds to better Jamaican Kishane Thompson’s mark of 14.92 set earlier this year. “It was about time,” the 28-year-old said. “This feeling – it’s…
Against Gout Gout, a new sensation of the sprint, Noah Lyles signed on Tuesday night in Ostrava the best performance in history over 150 m in 14'67. The American Olympic champion of the 100 m reminded the Australian phenomenon that he still reigned in the world sprint.
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