For many of the males’s 60m ultimate on the USATF Indoor Championships in Albuquerque on Saturday (Feb 17), Christian Coleman regarded poised to strike gold. However the fast-starting world record-holder was run down within the closing metres by Noah Lyles, the world 100m and 200m champion, in a dramatic race.
With 6.43 and 6.44, the duo ran the quickest occasions on this planet this 12 months – albeit at this altitude venue – and marked themselves out as favourites to win gold and silver on the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow in two weeks.
“Eight years I’ve been making an attempt to work on my begin, my acceleration, my first 60,” Lyles mentioned. “If they’ll’t beat me right here (within the 60m), you’ll be able to’t beat me wherever.”
That is how @LylesNoah beat @__coleman over 60m for the primary time in historical past 🔥
6.43 v 6.44 ⚡️
Rivalry however respect between the 2 athletes and we will’t watch for @wicglasgow24 💥 https://t.co/giJKJkBrjb
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) February 18, 2024
After world data within the dash hurdles on Friday, the motion on Saturday didn’t disappoint with extra top-class performances. These included Ryan Crouser having fun with his second-best indoor throw ever of twenty-two.80m – lacking his personal world file by 2cm – to win the boys’s shot put.
Cole Hocker impressed within the males’s 1500m as he ran away from Hobbs Kessler within the closing levels to win convincingly in 3:37.52. Bryce Hoppel, in the meantime, took his fourth title within the males’s 800m with 1:46.67 forward of Isaiah Harris.
Cole Hocker (Getty)
Erin Reese had three of one of the best throws in American girls’s weight throw historical past, topped by a 25.73m in spherical two to maneuver to No.2 on the world all-time listing.
Elsewhere, Alexis Holmes gained the ladies’s 400m in a gathering file of fifty.34. Katie Moon efficiently defended her girls’s pole vault title with a better of 4.80m. Aleia Hobbs additionally loved a profitable defence of the ladies’s 60m title with 7.02.
Nikki Hiltz took a second straight girls’s 1500m crown with a robust end in a time of 4:08.35.
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