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Noah Lyles won an extremely quick men’s 200m race at the London Athletics Meet 2023 Diamond League event in the British capital on Sunday (23 July). The American found himself pushed hard by both Britain’s national sprint double champion Zharnel Hughes and Botswana’s sprint sensation Letsile Tebogo around the bend, before putting some distance between himself and his rivals. Tebogo kicked hard to give Lyles a scare, but the world champion came home first in 19.47, improving his own 2023 world-leading time by two-tenths of a second. Tebogo’s 19.50 was a new African record, eclipsing Frankie Fredericks’ 19.68 from the Atlanta 1996 Olympic final, and moved him up from…
