Olympic gold medallist Noah Lyles powered to his third US 100m title, equalling his previous best of 9.79 seconds on Friday at the US athletics championships here. Lyles, trailing at the start, surged over the final 30m for a convincing win over  Ronnie Baker, who edged Kenny Bednarek for second. Both were credited with a time of 9.88s.

“In my head, the distance was already made up,” Lyles said of the early gap that he erased. “Coach said ‘put your hand in their pocket, don’t let them get away.’ I saw where Christian [Coleman, who finished fourth] was and I said: ‘Oh yeah, my hand is all the way in there,’ and I just pulled him back and I did what I do,” he added.