“It felt alright. My job is to get the job done,” said Thompson. The Jamaican, who missed the cut for the 2023 world championships in Budapest, will be one of the favourites for this year’s edition in Tokyo on September 13-21
Kishane Thompson powers through to the finish line of the 100m race at the Silesia Diamond League on Saturday. pic/getty images
Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson exacted a measure of revenge by beating Olympic champion Noah Lyles over 100m at the Silesia Diamond League meet on Saturday. It was the first time the two sprinters have met since Lyles was awarded Olympic gold in Paris a year ago, just five-thousandths of a second ahead of Thompson.
The fast-starting Jamaican timed a joint meet record of 9.87 seconds for victory in the Polish city of Chorzow, with Lyles second in 9.90 seconds. Another American, Kenny Bednarek, rounded out the podium in 9.96 seconds.
‘I compete against myself’
“It felt alright. My job is to get the job done,” said Thompson. The Jamaican, who missed the cut for the 2023 world championships in Budapest, will be one of the favourites for this year’s edition in Tokyo on September 13-21. But he downplayed the significance of the result. “Honestly, I compete against myself, no offence to the competition,” the Jamaican added.
Lyles was drawn in lane seven, outside Bednarek and inside fellow American Christian Coleman, with Thompson in five, South African Akani Simbine to his left. But it was Thompson who stole the march in hot and humid conditions, rocketing out of his blocks to leave the field in his wake for a true gun-to-tape display.
Lyles had the joint slowest reaction of the nine-man line-up and looked unlikely to even finish on the podium initially before coming through strongly over the closing 20 metres to pinch second place from Bednarek. Thompson’s winning time matched the 9.87 seconds meet record jointly held by Americans Ronnie Baker and Fred Kerley.
Melissa wins women’s 100m
USA’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the women’s 100m sprint, clocking a time of 10.66 seconds, just 0.01 seconds short of her own world-leading time. Jamaica’s Tia Clayton finished second with a time of 10.82 seconds, while Ivory Coast’s Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith came third (10.87 seconds)
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