{"id":2074,"date":"2019-08-24T21:13:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/paris-lyles-breaks-200m-meeting-record\/"},"modified":"2019-08-24T21:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T21:13:37","slug":"paris-lyles-breaks-200m-meeting-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/paris-lyles-breaks-200m-meeting-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris: Lyles Breaks 200m Meeting Record"},"content":{"rendered":"
The 22-year-old US sprinter flowed to a 200m time of 19.65 on the newly laid blue track of the Stade Charlety to record one of the most emphatic wins of the night at the Meeting de Paris on Saturday (24).<\/p>\n

In his wake was Turkey\u2019s world champion Ramil Guliyev, who finished in 20.01 ahead of Canada\u2019s Aaron Brown, who was timed at 20.13.<\/p><\/div>\n

After running a time only he has bettered this season \u2013 having clocked 19.50 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne \u2013 Lyles is looking hugely likely to dispossess Guliyev of his title later this year, especially as he has simplified his running programme by deciding not to try to double up over 100m in Qatar.<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m coming off a loaded week in training so that gives me a lot of confidence,\u201d said Lyles, whose winning mark bettered Usain Bolt\u2019s meeting record of 19.73 from 2013. \u201cIt felt fast. I blinked and all of a sudden the race was over.<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been putting in some great training sessions, but it\u2019s always different when you\u2019re over here in Europe, it\u2019s like a hiccup to overcome in itself with the travel.<\/div>\n
\u201cWhen I was coming off the turn it felt like such a fast track, the fastest I\u2019ve ever felt coming off the turn. Looking to Doha, it\u2019s not about going after Bolt\u2019s record or anything like that, but when we get there we\u2019re willing to go after any event.\u201d<\/div>\n
Ronald Musagala dipped like a high hurdler to win a men\u2019s 1500m race that was every bit as competitive as forecast, equalling the Ugandan record of 3:30.58 he set at last month\u2019s IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco.<\/div>\n
Sudan\u2019s Ayanleh Souleiman, who had taken over the lead when the second pacemaker peeled away early on the final lap, was passed in the final 30 metres, finishing second in a season\u2019s best of 3:30.66 ahead of the Ingebrigtsen brothers.<\/div>\n
On this occasion it was Filip who had the better run, finishing third in 3:31.06 as reward for a tactically astute race, with his 18-year-old brother Jakob fourth in 3:31.33. For the first time ever outside of Monaco, the top 10 finished inside 3:32, with Stewart McSweyn of Australia equalling his personal best of 3:31.81, Ethiopia\u2019s world indoor champion Samuel Tefara finishing a place behind him in ninth, a hundredth of a second behind, and Marcin Lewandowski, who set a Polish record of 3:31.95.<\/div>\n
\u201cIf I can run in Doha like I ran here, anything is possible,\u201d said Musagala. \u201cMy target is a medal.\u201d<\/div>\n
Morocco\u2019s Soufiane El Bakkali won an exciting men\u2019s 3000m steeplechase, but at a cost, as he limped away with blood all over his shoe after being badly spiked in a race where Kenya\u2019s world and Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto, making his season\u2019s debut after recovering from a broken foot, also walked away gingerly after finishing fifth.<\/div>\n
El Bakkali had three rivals for company when he took the bell, as first Ethiopia\u2019s Lamecha Girma, then Kenya\u2019s Benjamin Kigen, strove to pass him. The taller Moroccan held his position, however, checking either side of him in the final strides before raising his hands in triumph, clocking 8:06.54.<\/div>\n
Kigen was second in 8:07.09, Girma third in 8:08.63,<\/div>\n
Karsten Warholm won the 400m hurdles in characteristically bold style as he came home in 47.26, 0.14 off the European record he set in London last month. What may prove significant is that the world and European champion managed to repeat the feat he accomplished earlier this month in winning the Norwegian title, namely taking 13 steps between each hurdle.<\/div>\n
France\u2019s Ludvy Vaillant clocked a personal best of 48.30 in second place, ahead of reigning Diamond League and Commonwealth champion Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, who finished in a season\u2019s best of 48.33.<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been very consistent and hitting good times,\u201d said Warholm. \u201cSo far the three best people haven\u2019t met (all in one race) so that\u2019s why I get to win so much at meets like this, but we\u2019re all trying to get the work in to be in peak form for Doha.\u201d<\/div>\n
Daniel Roberts, the US trials winner in the 110m hurdles, earned victory in what was only the third IAAF Diamond League meeting of his career, coming home in 13.08 ahead of Spain\u2019s Olympic silver medallist Orlando Ortega, who clocked 13.14, and US compatrior Freddie Crittenden, who recorded a personal best of 13.17.<\/div>\n
France\u2019s European champion Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, making a return after illness, was fifth in 13.24, and 2015 world champion Sergey Shubenkov an unhappy last in 13.88.<\/div>\n
\u201cIn Doha my aim will be the gold,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cThat\u2019s always the goal.\u201d<\/div>\n
Jamaica\u2019s Olympic 100m and 200m champion Elaine Thompson started well and stayed strong to win the women\u2019s 100m in 10.98 (-0.2m\/s) from the Ivory Coast\u2019s world 100m and 200 silver medallist Marie-Jose Ta Lou, who clocked 11.13. Double world 200m champion Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands was third in 11.15.<\/div>\n
There was a Jamaican win too in the women\u2019s 400m as Jamaica\u2019s Stephenie Ann McPherson\u2019s strong finish in lane seven earned her victory in 51.11 ahead of three US runners \u2013 Kendall Ellis, who clocked 51.21, Shakima Wimbley, on 51.50, and world champion Phyllis Francis, who relinquished her lead halfway down the finishing straight, clocking 51.56.<\/div>\n
France\u2019s world 800m champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse was involved in one hell of a race here \u2013 but unfortunately for him he was not at the sharp end as Canada\u2019s Brandon McBride wrung every scrap out of himself to protect his lead all the way down the finishing straight from Wesley Vazquez.<\/div>\n
The winner of this non-scoring event clocked 1:43.78, with Vazquez setting a Puerto Rican record of 1.43.83. Bosse found himself being overtaken in the finishing straight, but held some form to finish sixth in a season\u2019s best of 1:45.07.<\/div>\n
The women\u2019s 800m did count in the IAAF Diamond League, and Hanna Green of the United States made the last 20 metres count as she moved up to pass Natoya Goule just before the line, clocking 1:58.39 to the Jamaican\u2019s 1:58.59. Despite huge support from a crowd that created a proper athletics atmosphere from the start of the programme, home runner Renelle Lamote could only manage eighth place in 2:00.40, narrowly missing the French Federation\u2019s qualifying time for the World Championships.<\/div>\n
Mike Rowbottom for the IAAF and the IAAF Diamond League<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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