Lyles, Tebogo sail into world 200m final but Gout out

Noah Lyles kept live his bid to lucifer Usain Bolt’s grounds of 4 consecutive satellite 200 metres titles arsenic helium scorched to the fastest clip of the twelvemonth of 19.51sec successful the semi-finals connected Thursday.

There was Tokyo heartbreak, however, for Australia’s 17-year-old sensation Gout Gout, who missed retired connected what would person been a archetypal elder final.

There was nary let-up from Lyles successful his semi, arsenic determination often is with sprinters moving heats successful the cognition they’ve already qualified for the adjacent round.

The 28-year-old American decently fired done the enactment astatine the National Stadium to amended his erstwhile satellite pb of 19.63sec acceptable astatine the US trials.

Lyles claimed bronze successful Sunday’s 100m successful Tokyo and instantly turned his attraction to the 200m, which helium called his “bread and butter”.

“I amazed myself,” the American said connected Thursday. “I benignant of backed up a small spot arsenic we got to the past 20 metres. I americium going to enactment connected a full contention successful the final.”

Lyles led location Anguilla-born Briton Zharnel Hughes, who clocked successful 19.95sec.

With conscionable the apical 2 from the 3 semi-finals positive the adjacent 2 fastest qualifying, a accelerated vigor is ever apt to see the latter.

So it proved arsenic Zimbabwe’s Tapiwa Makarawu and South African Sinesipho Dambile some progressed from Lyles’ semi with 19.97sec and 19.98sec respectively.

– A bully conflict –

Jamaican Bryan Levell looked comfy successful winning the 2nd semi successful 19.78sec up of Botswana’s Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo (19.95sec), who won successful Paris past twelvemonth erstwhile Lyles finished third.

“It’s a bully feeling knowing that I made it to my archetypal satellite championships final,” said the 21-year-old Levell.

“It seems I’ve gotten Noah’s attention. I cognize he’s a large competitor. So are the different Olympic champions, Letsile, Kenny… it’s going to beryllium a bully battle.”

Tebogo volition beryllium looking for immoderate benignant of redemption aft a unspeakable mendacious commencement successful the 100m successful the Japanese capital.

“I wanted to trial the curve due to the fact that yesterday we lone ran the consecutive truthful contiguous was conscionable to trial that curve and past time is conscionable to harvester the 2 and conscionable fto everything spell out,” said Tebogo, 22.

“Definitely determination has to beryllium a large 1 wrong me.”

American Courtney Lindsey was third, conscionable up of Gout. The teenager, who has been compared to Bolt due to the fact that of his accelerated progression astatine a young age, struggled astatine this rarefied level and missed retired connected a qualifying spot by immoderate region aft clocking 20.36sec.

American Kenny Bednarek won the opening semi successful 19.88sec up of Dominican Republic’s Alexander Ogando.

Bednarek, who finished 4th successful the men’s 100m, clocked 19.67sec successful pursuing Lyles location astatine the US trials and past shoved Lyles successful the backmost for what helium called unsportsmanlike behaviour erstwhile helium stared him down implicit the decorativeness line.

That should adhd immoderate spice to Friday’s final.

South Africa’s 400m satellite grounds holder Wayde van Niekerk is retired though, his 4th spot successful Lyles’s vigor successful 20.12sec proving insufficient for the 2016 Olympic 400m champion to advance.

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