Noah Lyles clocks world-best 14.67 to win 150m in Ostrava

Noah Lyles ran a world-best 14.67 seconds on Tuesday to win the rarely staged 150 metres at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The 28-year-old American lowered the previous best of 14.72 set by Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson in Florida in April. Lyles finished ahead of South Africa’s Sinesipho Dambile and Australian teenager Gout Gout.

Dambile placed second in 14.78, while Gout was third in 14.96. With no global championship title contested at the distance, 100m and 200m specialists often use the 150m as a speed-endurance test and an early-season gauge of sharpness.

The result in Ostrava came after Lyles won the men’s 100m in 9.88 at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome earlier this month, officials said. That time was described as his fastest since he won Olympic gold in Paris in 2024.

Golden Spike is one of the longest-running meetings on the European circuit and regularly attracts strong sprint and middle-distance fields. Tuesday’s programme also produced notable results in the women’s 800m and another men’s 100m.

Golden Spike sprint races set early-season markers

Lyles’ 150m time stood out because the event is rarely run at the top level and has no major-championship pathway. Athletes and coaches still value it as a way to bridge the acceleration demands of the 100m with the rhythm and endurance required for the 200m.

By lowering Thompson’s previous best, Lyles added a benchmark performance to a season in which he has already posted a sub-10 100m. Officials said the Ostrava win provided another data point as leading sprinters build form across the European meetings calendar.

Werro beats Bol in women’s 800m; Walaza takes 100m

In the women’s 800m, Switzerland’s Audrey Werro won in 1:54.45. Dutch runner Femke Bol finished second in 1:57.13 in her outdoor debut at the distance after shifting her focus away from the 400m hurdles.

Officials said Werro’s winning time was about half a second outside her personal best from March. It also remained more than a second short of the long-standing world record of 1:53.28 set in 1983 by Jarmila Kratochvilova, who watched from the stands.

In the men’s 100m, South Africa’s Bayanda Walaza won in 9.94 seconds to equal his personal best. Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme was second in 9.99, while US runners Ronnie Baker and Jordan Anthony placed fourth and fifth, respectively, with times above 10 seconds, officials said.

Attention now turns to Lyles’ next scheduled starts, with athletes using the summer meetings to sharpen form ahead of the season’s biggest targets.