{"id":445914,"date":"2026-05-17T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:44:08","slug":"golden-grand-prix-2026-noah-lyles-cruises-to-victory-in-9-95-in-first-100m-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445914\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Grand Prix 2026: Noah Lyles cruises to victory in 9.95 in first 100m of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning Olympic and world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/noah-lyles\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;AF,AX,AL,DZ,AS,AD,AO,AI,AQ,AG,AR,AM,AW,AU,AT,AZ,BS,BH,BD,BB,BY,BE,BZ,BJ,BM,BT,BO,BQ,BA,BW,BV,BR,IO,UM,VG,VI,BN,BG,BF,BI,KH,CM,CA,CV,KY,CF,TD,CL,CN,CX,CC,CO,KM,CG,CD,CK,CR,HR,CU,CW,CY,CZ,DK,DJ,DM,DO,EC,EG,SV,GQ,ER,EE,ET,FK,FO,FJ,FI,FR,GF,PF,TF,GA,GM,GE,DE,GH,GI,GR,GL,GD,GP,GU,GT,GG,GN,GW,GY,HT,HM,VA,HN,HK,HU,IS,IN,ID,CI,IR,IQ,IE,IM,IL,IT,JM,JP,JE,JO,KZ,KE,KI,KW,KG,LA,LV,LB,LS,LR,LY,LI,LT,LU,MO,MK,MG,MW,MY,MV,ML,MT,MH,MQ,MR,MU,YT,MX,FM,MD,MC,MN,ME,MS,MA,MZ,MM,NA,NR,NP,NL,NC,NZ,NI,NE,NG,NU,NF,KP,MP,NO,OM,PK,PW,PS,PA,PG,PY,PE,PH,PN,PL,PT,PR,QA,RE,RO,RU,RW,BL,SH,KN,LC,MF,PM,VC,WS,SM,ST,SA,SN,RS,SC,SL,SG,SX,SK,SI,SB,SO,ZA,GS,KR,SS,ES,LK,SD,SR,SJ,SZ,SE,CH,SY,TW,TJ,TZ,TH,TL,TG,TK,TO,TT,TN,TR,TM,TC,TV,UG,UA,AE,GB,US,UY,UZ,VU,VE,VN,WF,EH,YE,ZM,ZW,XK&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;ccdf2a7e-a231-4776-8f50-fa6f3f7c9a75&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2026-05-17T06:04:29.633Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;Golden Grand Prix 2026: Noah Lyles cruises to victory in 9.95 in first 100m of season&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-athletics\\&quot;,\\&quot;noah-lyles\\&quot;,\\&quot;gout-gout\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-us\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-au\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-male\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;asia-editorial\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-all\\&quot;,\\&quot;rai-benjamin-x6723\\&quot;,\\&quot;shintaro-kano\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Golden Grand Prix 2026: Noah Lyles cruises to victory in 9.95 in first 100m of season&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;athletics-golden-grand-prix-tokyo-2026&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-athletics&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;ATH&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah\u00a0Lyles<\/a> won his first 100m of 2026 in 9.95 at the Golden Grand Prix\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/athletics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">athletics<\/a> meet in Tokyo on Sunday (17 May).<\/p>\n<p>The winning time was good for a share of sixth fastest in the world this season.<\/p>\n<p>In other events, Olympic 400m hurdles champion Rai Benjamin returned to the venue where he won a world title in September, winning the 400m flat in 44.69 from two finals heats by time.<\/p>\n<p>It was Benjamin\u2019s first 400m on flat ground in more than two years, and was 0.38 off his personal best. He seemed to be pleased all things considered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty good, a weird one, just trying to feel that 400m rhythm again so happy to come out with 44.6 I believe,\u201d Benjamin said. \u201cA rustbuster, and we&#8217;ll just go home and figure out what we could do better for the next meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConditioning wise I felt good. It was just about coming out here and piecing together a good race and not focusing so much on running a crazy time because we have the rest of the season ahead of us so I felt pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe competitor in me, I feel like I should have opened up a little faster &#8211; 44 low would have been great. But like I said, first one in a while so happy with this mid-44 so can&#8217;t complain too much. Just a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His USA compatriot Jordan Anthony won the 200m in a season best of 20.05, against a wind of -1.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning Olympic and world champion Noah\u00a0Lyles won his first 100m of 2026 in 9.95 at the Golden Grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-445914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}