American Noah Lyles wins 100m gold, Omanyala seventh
USA's Noah Lyles celebrates with a national flag after winning the men's 100m final during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on August 20, 2023.
What you need to know:
- Botswana's Letsile Tebogo claimed silver in 9.88 in a photo-finish from Anguilla-born Briton Zharnel Hughes. Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala was seventh.
Kenya’s hopes of claiming its first medal in men’s 100 metres at the World Championships went up in smoke when Commonwealth Games 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala finished seventh in the final on Sunday.
Omanyala took off to a slow start in the tension-packed final, leaving him to chase the pack in in vain as he clocked 10.07 seconds at World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Sunday.
Nevertheless, Omanyala, the Africa 100m champion and record holder, made history as the first Kenyan to reach the men’s 100m final at the world championships.
American world 200m champion Noah Lyle won the race in a world lead of 9.83, beating World under-20 100m champion and record holder Letsile Tebogo from Botswana to second place in a national record time of 9.88.
The feat was enough to see Tebogo make history as the first African to win a medal in the history of the World Athletics Championships.
Briton Zharnel Hughes claimed a surprise bronze in 9.88 as the 2019 world 100m champion Christian Coleman from USA sunk to fifth in 9.92.
