Alexandria Grad Noah Lyles Wins 100m, Attempts To Break Usain Bolt's 200m Record

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Noah Lyles, a graduate of the renamed Alexandria City High School who became a professional track and field athlete, already set the American record for the men's 200m sprint. Now he's a world champion in the 100m event.

The 26-year-old Lyles sprinted to first place in 9.83 seconds at the World Athletics Championships Sunday, according to the Olympics website. During the 100m sprint, he pulled ahead of Christian Coleman, another American competitor that ended up in fifth. Letsile Tebogo of Botswana took second place, marking the first men's 100m world medal for an African country. Zharnel Hughes of the United Kingdom came in third place.

Lyles will now attempt to break Usain Bolt's world record of 19.19 seconds in the 200m sprint. The Alexandria graduate broke the American record with 19.31 seconds at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. His time was the third-fastest in the world and beat the previous American record of 19.32 seconds, which was set by Michael Johnson at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Lyles needs to clock in 13 hundredths of a second to beat Bolt's world record, according to the Olympics website. Amid his World Athletics Championships competition, Lyles stars in a new docuseries called "Untitled: The Noah Lyles Project" on Peacock.

The young track and field star will also be a contender for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. He took bronze in the 200m at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Lyles is a 2016 graduate of T.C. Williams High School, now renamed Alexandria City High School. Track and field runs in the family, as his parents Keisha Caine Bishop and Kevin Lyles were track and field competitors at Seton Hall University, and his brother Josephus Lyles is also a professional athlete.