Noah Lyles Wins Sprint Double at World Championships With 200M Victory

The Florida native won his fifth career gold in the event.

American sprinter Noah Lyles has taken his game to the next level in 2023.

Friday’s 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest provided the most compelling evidence of this yet, as Lyles ran a 19.52 to sweep the 100-meter and 200-meter races.

It marked the fifth world championship gold medal for Lyles, 26. Aside from his medals this year, he won the 200-meter race in Eugene in 2022 and the 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay in Doha in 2019.

Lyles, a native of Gainesville, Fla., also won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021.

THREE IN A ROW FOR NOAH LYLES! 🥇🥇🥇

He completes the sprint double with 19.51 in the men's 200m! #WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/Bq7FHXsJTE

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 25, 2023

The victory made Lyles the first man to win both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints at the world championships since Jamaican legend Usain Bolt in 2015.

American Erriyon Knighton, a Tampa native, finished second with a time of 19.75. Rounding out the top three was Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, who ran a 19.81.