{"id":1926128,"date":"2023-05-07T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-lyles-wins-150m-at-atlanta-city-games\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:44:12","slug":"athletics-lyles-wins-150m-at-atlanta-city-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-lyles-wins-150m-at-atlanta-city-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyles triumphs in 150m at Atlanta City Games."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fathletics-lyles-wins-150m-at-atlanta-city-games%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926128&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Lyles Wins 150m at Atlanta City Games<\/h2>\n<p>American sprinter Noah Lyles continues to dominate his rivalry with Erriyon Knighton, winning the 150 metres at the Atlanta City Games. Lyles, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/allyson-felix-wins-10th-olympic-medal-becomes-most-decorated-female-track-and-field-olympian\/\" title=\"Allyson Felix Wins 10th Olympic Medal, Becomes Most Decorated Female Track And Field Olympian\">won bronze<\/a> at the Tokyo Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-travel-lid-for-wednesday-an-hour-after-bobulinski-interview-airs\/\" title=\"Biden Calls Travel Lid for Wednesday an Hour After Bobulinski Interview Airs\">finished<\/a> in 14.56 seconds, becoming the third-fastest athlete of all time over the distance, behind Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay. Knighton, who won bronze at last year&#8217;s World Championships, finished second in 14.85 seconds. <\/p>\n<p>The 150m is not a World Athletics-recognised event, but Lyles&#8217; win is a boost to his preparations for this year&#8217;s World Championships, where he will defend his 200m crown. The championships are scheduled to take place in Budapest, Hungary from Aug. 19-27.<\/p>\n<h3>African Record Broken<\/h3>\n<p>Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala finished third in the 150m, clocking a time of 14.89 seconds. This broke Namibian Frankie Fredericks&#8217;s mark of 14.99 and set a new African record. Omanyala also holds the African men&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-washington-post-is-erasing-women\/\" title=\"How The Washington Post Is Erasing Women\">lyles<\/a>-wins-150m-at-atlanta-city-games\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Lyles triumphs in 150m at Atlanta City Games.&#8221;>100m record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Results<\/h3>\n<p>Kendra Harrison, the United States&#8217; Olympic silver medallist, finished second in the women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-fraser-pryce-caps-memorable-diamond-league-season-with-100m-crown\/\" title=\"Athletics-Fraser-Pryce caps memorable Diamond League season with 100m crown\">100m hurdles<\/a> behind Tia Jones.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Noah Lyles won the 150m at the Atlanta City Games<\/li>\n<li>Lyles is the third-fastest athlete of all time over the distance<\/li>\n<li>Erriyon Knighton finished second, while Ferdinand Omanyala set a new African record in third<\/li>\n<li>Kendra Harrison finished second in the women&#8217;s 100m hurdles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Noah Lyles retained the upper hand in his rivalry with fellow American Erriyon Knighton on Saturday, taking first place in the 150 metres at the Atlanta City Games as he steps up preparations to defend his 200m crown at this year\u2019s World Championships. Lyles, bronze medallist at the Tokyo Games, scorched to victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1926129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[26093,9584,5269,6960,26094,26095],"class_list":["post-1926128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-150m","tag-atlanta","tag-city","tag-games","tag-lyles","tag-triumphs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}