Lyles wins 200 again; Jefferson-Wooden sweeps

Noah Lyles pulled up of Kenny Bednarek heading into the straightaway past held him disconnected down the agelong to seizure his 4th rubric successful a much-awaited 200 meters astatine satellite championships Friday night.

Lyles finished successful 19.52 seconds for a .06-second borderline implicit Bednarek, who led the last astatine the halfway point, fell down by a fewer steps but was closing the spread implicit the last footsteps.

Minutes later, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden completed the archetypal women's 100-200 treble astatine worlds since Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, winning successful 21.68 seconds -- a .46-second borderline implicit astonishment metallic medalist Amy Hunt of Britain.

Lyles matched Usain Bolt with 4 200 titles astatine the satellite championships. Instead of exchanging glares and shoves with Bednarek -- the mode it happened astatine U.S. nationals past period -- Lyles raised up 4 fingers and said, "That's four, baby," into the camera.

Bryan Levell of Jamaica finished third, and Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo was fourth.

Hunt (22.14) burst into tears instantly aft collecting Great Britain's 2nd podium of these championships. Shericka Jackson (22.18) collected bronze for Jamaica.

The contention required a restart aft the Bahamas' Anthonique Strachan was disqualified for a mendacious start.

Rai Benjamin captured the 400-meter hurdles connected the champion time of the championships for the United States, which has 10 golds and 16 wide with 2 days near successful the meet.

Lyles won the featured contention of the night, 1 that's been successful the making for the past 7 weeks -- oregon 4 years, depending however you look astatine it.

In 2021, Lyles was suffering aft months successful a COVID lockdown and came to Tokyo admittedly depressed. Running successful a near-empty stadium, helium won a bronze medal successful the 200 and stored it away, utilizing it arsenic substance for what was to come.

More recently, determination was his triumph astatine nationals, punctuated by a stare-down of Bednarek, who shoved Lyles arsenic they crossed the decorativeness line. In betwixt each that, Tebogo won the Paris Olympics successful a contention Lyles ran with COVID.

All that led the runners to the enactment connected a chill nighttime successful Tokyo.

Lyles didn't commencement perfectly but ne'er panicked. He caught Bednarek, opened a two-step pb connected him with astir 50 meters left, held connected and calmly thrust 4 fingers successful the aerial -- 1 for each rubric successful a drawstring that began six years agone successful Qatar.

The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.