Lyles wins world title at 100 meters and sets his sights on more
Associated PressBUDAPEST, Hungary — Noah Lyles calls himself the “Told you’re not a 100 guy.” That didn’t stop him. Defending 100 champion Fred Kerley scoffed at the 9.65 goal, adding some spice to the pre-race news conference by saying if Lyles did that, he’d run faster. Kerley got beat in the semifinal round and Lyles’ closest competition in the final came from Letsile Tebogo, a 20-year-old from Botswana who became the first African to win a medal in 100 at worlds. When the race is finished, not the first.” Other winners on Day 2 in Budapest were Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, who won his third straight worlds at 10,000; Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who won her second world heptathlon title; Serbia’s Ivana Vuleta in the long jump; and Canada’s Ethan Katzberg in a hammer throw that featured the host country’s first medal of the meet, a bronze from Bence Halasz.