Noah Lyles took a quarter of a second off the world 150m best at the Golden Spike in Ostrava on Tuesday (16), clocking 14.67 at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting.<\/p>\n
The Olympic 100m champion and four-time world 200m champion was contesting the distance for the first time, but the rarely run event looked tailor-made for him. Strong enough over 100m and dominant over 200m, Lyles used both parts of his sprinting range to full effect in the Czech city.<\/p>\n
Coming off the bend, he was level with South Africa\u2019s Sinesipho Dambile, but Lyles then edged in front and pulled clear to win in 14.67, improving the world best of 14.92 set earlier this year by Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson.<\/p>\n
Dambile held on to take second in 14.78, also inside the previous world best, while rising Australian talent Gout Gout finished strongly to take third in 14.96.<\/p>\n
The victory continued Lyles\u2019 unbeaten outdoor start to 2026. He had already won at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Tokyo and the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome, and in Ostrava he added another landmark performance to that sequence.<\/p>\n
Nine days after her remarkable world-leading victory in Stockholm, Audrey Werro produced another outstanding performance in the women\u2019s 800m. The Swiss athlete won by almost three seconds in 1:54.45, the eighth-fastest performance in history and just 0.48 shy of the national record she set earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Behind her, two-time world 400m hurdles champion Femke Broeders-Bol made an impressive outdoor 800m debut, clocking 1:57.13 to finish second. That performance puts her third on the Dutch all-time list, behind Ellen van Langen and Sifan Hassan.<\/p>\n
The third meeting record of the night came in the men\u2019s mile, where Nathan Green broke a mark that had stood since 2009. The US runner won in 3:49.44, overtaking compatriot Vincent Ciattei in the closing stages, with Ciattei finishing second in 3:49.51.<\/p>\n
Lima, Manuel and Walaza among track winners<\/p>\n
Brazil\u2019s Matheus Lima continued his fine form in the men\u2019s 400m hurdles, winning by half a second in 47.64. Spain\u2019s Jesus David Delgado finished second in a national record of 48.11.<\/p>\n
World indoor champion Lurdes Gloria Manuel of Czechia delighted the home crowd in the women\u2019s 400m, winning in a PB of 49.74. Cuba\u2019s Roxana Gomez was second in 50.20.<\/p>\n
Attila Molnar won the men\u2019s 400m in 44.56, with Belgium\u2019s Daniel Segers second in 44.81.<\/p>\n
South Africa\u2019s Bayanda Walaza equalled his PB to win the men\u2019s 100m in 9.94, finishing ahead of Cameroon\u2019s Emmanuel Eseme, who clocked 9.99. World indoor champion Jordan Anthony was fifth in 10.20.<\/p>\n
Cuba\u2019s Kendry Menendez won the men\u2019s 110m hurdles in 13.14. The women\u2019s 100m hurdles was much closer, with Nadine Visser winning in 12.65 from Pia Skrzyszowska, who ran 12.66, and Marione Fourie, who clocked 12.68.<\/p>\n
Fabbri and Ayris take field event wins<\/p>\n
Two-time world medallist Leonardo Fabbri notched up his 10th victory of the year in the men\u2019s shot put, retaining his Golden Spike title with 21.91m. Nigeria\u2019s Chukwu Enekwechi was second with 21.43m.<\/p>\n
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage dominated the javelin with three throws beyond 85 metres \u2013 all of which would have been sufficient to win. His best was 86.57m, which came in the third round, and gave him victory over Anderson Peters (84.27m).<\/p>\n
In the pole vault, intermittent rain made conditions challenging. Imogen Ayris won the women\u2019s event with 4.75m, while Emmanouil Karalis took the men\u2019s competition with 5.82m before going on to attempt 6.00m.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Peter Bol timed his effort to perfection in the men\u2019s 1000m, striding down the home straight to overtake Samuel Chapple and Marino Bloudek. The Australian won in an Oceanian record of 2:15.13, with Chapple second in 2:15.20 and Bloudek third in 2:15.40.<\/p>\n
Salah Eddine Ben Yazide led a Moroccan one-two in the men\u2019s 3000m steeplechase, winning in 8:09.88 from Mohamed Tindouft, who clocked 8:10.04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Lyles took a quarter of a second off the world 150m best at the Golden Spike in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-496062","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\/496062","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=496062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}