Lyles, Jefferson-Wooden Storm at victories with American tests

Noah Lyles posed a world championship scorer with a 200m stock-up victory with US Oregon tests on Sunday while Melissa Jefferson-Wooden finished a double sprint in the female event.

The last day of action at Hayward Field of Eugene saw Lyles coming from behind to win a breathtaking battle with Kenny Bednarek in 19.63 seconds in the world.

After preceding Bednarek just before the line, Lyles turned his head to look at his rival while he was taking the band.

This led to an angry response from Bednarek, who pushed the world champion in the defending 100m and 200m while the two men slowed down after the arrival.

Lyles, the 100m Olympic champion who has already had a bye in the worlds of Sesemeber in Tokyo, refused to be attracted to his spit with Bednarek.

“Under the coach’s orders, no comments,” said Lyles afterwards.

But Bednarek, a double 200m Olympic silver medalist, was larger.

“What he said doesn’t matter is exactly what he did,” said Bednarek, referring to the Lyles’s finish line. “It’s little lost shit, and I don’t take care of that … I don’t take care of any of that. This is not a good character,” added Bednarek, who took second place in the best 19.67sec of a season.

In female sprints, Jefferson-Wooden reported that she could well be the woman to beat in Tokyo after finishing her 100m-200 m double, winning the 200m in 21.84 seconds, with Anavia Battle second in 22.12 seconds.

The 200m Olympic champion, Gabby Thomas, has just sank into the Tokyo team, finishing third in a photo with Brittany Brown.

“As long as I perform my race as I know, so the times will continue to come,” said Jefferson-Wooden. “And 21.84 I’m going to take.”

– Brazier Comeback –

While Jefferson-Wooden impatiently awaits Tokyo, Sha’Carri Richardson will only participate in the world championships.

Richardson, arrested for domestic violence last week following a confrontation with the boyfriend Christian Coleman, failed to qualify for the 200m final.

Coleman also failed to qualify in the 200m, but will go to Tokyo as part of the American relay swimming pool.

Elsewhere on Sunday, the champion of Olympic obstacles 400m Rai Benjamin took place in the victory in 46.89 seconds to seal her place in Tokyo.

In the 400m women’s hedges, the 35 -year -old Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad, 35 years old, resumed the years with a victory in 52.65 seconds, putting in place what will be an emotional farewell in Japan in her last season before retirement.

In one of the races of the day, former world champion Donavan Brazier crowned a sensational return in shape with a victory in combat in 800m.

Brazier won gold at the world championships in Doha in 2019, but then saw his career prevented by several injuries that required surgery. He only returned to the race this season after an absence of three years of the track.

On Sunday, the 28 -year -old left this nightmare in the mirror of the injury in the rear view mirror, struck a gap in the final stretch to take the band in a personal record of 1 min 42.16 seconds, just ahead of Cooper Lutkenhaus, 16, who took second place.

The time of 1: 42.27 from Lutkenhaus was a new world record for under 18s. Bryce Hoppel finished third in 1: 42.49.

“The past few years have been really difficult for me,” said Brazier.

“To finally have a chance of redemption, and enhance resilience – I was really happy to do it today. It was just a pure grain.”

In the 800m women’s final, the former world champion under 20, Roisin Willis, reached her first major championships with a 1 min 59.26 seconds victory. Willis finished in front of Maggi Congdon (1: 59.39), with Sage Hurta-Klecker third in 1: 59.48.

In the 110m hedges, Ja’kobe Tharp won in 13.01 seconds. The Olympic and world champion Grant Holloway, who has a review at the world championships, striped from the final.

In the leap for women’s pole, the triple world championship in silver-medallic Sandi Morris made a second place, reigning world champion, with a winning height of 4.83 m.

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