Noah Lyles, Usain Bolt and World Athletics Championships
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Usain Bolt's world records of 9.58 seconds in the 100 and 19.19 in the 200 remain more than 15 years after he set those marks at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. At a Puma event in Tokyo prior to this year's worlds,
Gout Gout was only third in his World Athletics Championships debut, but that was enough to beat his hero Usain Bolt. The Australian 17-year-old was slow out of the blocks in his Tokyo 200metres
Usain Bolt’s prediction of a Jamaican gold-silver came true on Sunday night in the men’s 100m final at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Rising star Oblique Seville stormed to Jamaica’s first men’s 100m medal since 2017, winning gold in a personal best of 9.77 seconds (+0.3 m/s).
Track icon Usain Bolt penned a heartfelt tribute to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce after she ran her final individual race at the World Athletics Championships 2025. Fraser-Pryce clocked a time of 11.
The American star clocked a brilliant 19.52s for victory with Kenny Bednarek (19.58s) and Bryan Levell (19.64s) following suit
Down below, sprinters in his country's familiar colors -- black, green and, of course, gold --- were wreaking havoc on the track. It was a good night for America, too, as the sport's past and the future collided in back-to-back 100-meter finals at the world track championships on a steamy Sunday in Tokyo.
Usain Bolt recently welcomed Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to the 'retirement club'. The veteran Jamaican sprinter had recently participated in the penultimate race of her career at the ongoing World Championships in Tokyo, i.e. the women's 100m finals, where she finished sixth overall.