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MEN’S 200M FINAL, RESULTS: Letsile Tebogo becomes the first African man to claim 200m gold at the Olympics, winning with an African record of 19.46! Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles went 2-3 for ...
Noah Lyles, the 100m Olympics champion, finished with a bronze medal in the men’s 200m final after testing positive for Covid-19 and has now pulled out of the 4x100m relay races at Paris 2024.
By winning the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Tebogo became the first Olympic gold medal winner from Botswana and the first runner from Africa to win the 200m final at the Olympic Games.
The men's 200 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in four rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, between 5 and 8 August 2024. This was the 29th time that the men's 200 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 48 athletes were able to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking.
The men's 200 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 and the women's 200 m has been held continuously since its introduction at the 1948 Games. It is the most prestigious 200 m race at elite level. The competition format typically has three or four qualifying rounds leading to a final race between eight athletes.
With his score, De Grasse finally moved into the top 10 of all-time in the 200m, a status foretold six years earlier with a wind-aided 19.58 while competing for the University of Southern California. Bednarek, in second, ran 19.68 to claim a tie with Frankie Fredericks (second behind Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics).
Noah Lyles won the men's 200m race at the 2023 USATF NYC Grand Prix in 19.83 seconds. ... The 25-year-old American sprinter recorded his 34th career sub-20 second 200-meter race after he won the ...
Allyson Felix is the most successful woman, having won three straight titles (2005 to 2009). Two-time champion Merlene Ottey has won more medals in the 200 m than any other athlete, reaching the podium six times in a period stretching from 1983 to 1997. Calvin Smith and Michael Johnson are the only others to have won two world titles over the ...