by Noah Lyles did not have to run at the outdoor championships of Toyota USA, but he made and released a tense victory over Kenny Bednarek.
Lyles, the 100m Olympic gold medalist, won a fifth 200m title for American men, with 19.63 seconds, the best time in the world in 2025, in Eugene, Oregon.
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Lyles equaled the record number of titles of 200m American male shared by Michael Johnson (1990-92, ’95 -96) and Ralph Metcalfe (1932-36). His latest defeat in an American 200m final was during the 2016 Olympic trials at the age of 18.
The athletes who participate in nationals compete for spots at the September world championships with the first three in most events making the team. But Lyles has already had a Bye in the team for the worlds in Tokyo both in the 100m and 200m as a defending world champion at each event.
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Lyles will be joined in the 100m and 200m team in Worlds by Bednarek, who won the 100M in the Nationals on Friday in the absence of Lyles.
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In the 200m final, Lyles exceeded Bednarek in the final progress of four hundredths and watched Bednarek as he crossed the finish line. Bednarek then pushed Lyles to the back before stopping. The two men then had a brief conversation and hugged their hands.
“I’m not going to say it here, but we have something to do and talk,” Bednarek told Lewis Johnson on NBC Sports when asked the look and the push.
Bednarek has a 2-13 file against Lyles in 200m, according to Tilastopaja.info, although the two were the last two Olympic finals where Bednarek took the money and the Bronze Lyles.
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Lyles exceeded another American, T’mars McCallum, for the best time in the world of 2025 in its second 200m of the year.
“It was a fairly difficult championship,” said Lyles, who treated an ankle injury this season. “I was tired. It was tough, coming here when you’re not 100%.”
Also Sunday, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden became the first woman to sweep the national titles of the 100m and 200m since 2003 (Torri Edwards).
Jefferson-Wooden, who led a better 21.84 staff at 200m on Sunday, was followed by Anavia Battle (22.13) and the Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas (22.20).
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Thomas, who said she had a few setbacks this season, was part of the world team of a thousandth of a second on the Olympic bronze medalist Brittany Brown.
Donavan Brazier, 2019 world champion, finished a return of Almost three years of competition To win the 800m in better staff 1: 42.19.
“I have always imagined that, but I don’t know if it would have been done,” Brazier told Johnson on NBC Sports.
Brazier was followed by Cooper Lutkenhaus, 16, who ran 1: 42.27, a U18 world record of 1.1 seconds.
The Rising Texas High School Junior should become the youngest American to participate in a world athletics championship, according to the Olymadmen Olymadmen Olympic Historian. Mary Cain (2013) and Allyson Felix (2003) previously ran at the age of 17.
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The Olympic gold medalist 1500m, Cole Hocker, won the 5000m, one day after placing third in 1500m, To achieve its goal to do the world team in both events.
Hocker is joined by the Olympic bronze medalist 5000m Grant Fisher and the holder of the American record Nico Young. Hocker would be the first American to run both the 1500m and the 5000m in Worlds since Bernard Lagat in 2009.
In the hedges of the 400m, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, Dalilah Muhammad, won her fifth national title – and first since her beat the world record in 2019 – in what she said will be her last season before retiring.
Muhammad will direct the 400m hedge American women’s team in Worlds, with the Olympic silver medalist Anna Cockrell.
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the double Olympic gold medalist and current world record in the event, chose to run the 400m instead this summer.
The Olympic gold medalist Rai Benjamin won a sixth American title in the hedges of the male 400m, breaking a record that he shared with Edwin Moses, among others.
The double Olympic gold medalist Valarie Allman launched 71.45 meters for a seventh record title of American disc and a 27th consecutive victory dating from 2023.
Allman, who would have won the title on Sunday with one of his six throws, was now going to ask a world title for the first time after the previous silver and bronze medals.
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Roisin Willis did his first senior world team by winning the 800m, adding to its world NCAA Junior 2022 and 2025 titles in the event. The Tokyo Olympic champion, a Mu-Nikolayev, previously missed the final of nine women with a place.
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