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Team USA sprinter Noah Lyles will seek his second Olympic gold in the finals of the men’s 200-meter dash.
Lyles placed second in his semifinal heat with a time of 20.08 to qualify for Thursday’s final.
Letsile Tebogo of Botswana won the heat with a time of 19.96 seconds.
Lyles previously made it to the semifinals with a qualifying heat time of 20.19 seconds.
He ran the 100-meter final in 9.784 seconds on Sunday to claim the first Olympic gold of his career.
American sprinter Kenny Bednarek also qualified for the 200-meter semifinal by winning his earlier heat with a time of 20.00 seconds.
Defending champion Andre de Grasse of Canada ran his heat in 20.41 seconds and did not qualify for the final.
Bednarek is seeking the first gold medal of his Olympic career after claiming the 200-meter silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
The full list of sprinters who will be competing in the final is below.
Men’s 200m final qualifiers
Letsile Tebogo, Botswana (19.96 seconds)Kenneth Bednarek, United States (20.00 seconds)Noah Lyles, United States (20.08 seconds)Alexander Ogando, Dominican Republic (20.088 seconds)Erriyon Knighton, United States (20.089 seconds)Joseph Fahnbulleh, Liberia (20.12 seconds)Tapiwanashe Makarawu, Zimbabwe (20.16 seconds)
Makanakaishe Charamba, Zimbabwe (20.31 seconds)
The top six qualifiers finished within the top two spots in their heat, while the two Zimbabwean sprinters marked the next two fastest times overall.
The final will feature three American sprinters as Erriyon Knighton runs against Lyles and Bednarek for a spot on the podium.
Knighton held off a late push from Liberia’s Joseph Fahnbulleh and Zimbabwe’s Tapiwanashe Makarawu to lead his semifinal heat. The 20-year-old is looking for the first Olympic medal of his career.
Lyles crossed the line 0.14 seconds behind Tebogo, but the second-place finish will not dampen his hopes of winning another gold in the 2024 Games.
Prior to his winning race in the 100-meter event, Lyles marked the third-best time in the semifinals after being outrun by Kishane Thompson and Oblique Seville of Jamaica in the qualifiers.
Lyles will hope for a similar result on Thursday after both Tebogo and Bednarek marked faster 200-meter semifinal times.
A win would make Lyles the first American man to win both the 100-meter and 200-meter Olympic races since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first male sprinter from any country to achieve the feat since Usain Bolt in 2016.
The men’s 200-meter final is set to begin in Paris on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. ET.
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Publish date : 2024-08-07 11:17:00
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