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All rights reserved.",{"title":83,"slug":84,"category":85,"badge":86,"author":87,"excerpt":88,"date":89,"readTime":90,"image":91,"imageAlt":83,"tags":92,"body":96,"_path":97},"Lyles Clocks 9.79 At US Trials, Projecting sub-9.75 Trajectory","lyles-979-100m-world-leading-us-championships","long-reads","Football: Feature","James Chen","Breakdown reaction from 9.78 to 9.79, Lyles' sprint parity and the performance implications for global sprinting.","2026-07-25 07:31:38","1 min read","https:\u002F\u002Fichef.bbci.co.uk\u002Face\u002Fstandard\u002F976\u002Fcpsprodpb\u002F8eb1\u002Flive\u002Fb4607c10-87f7-11f1-a7ab-8b30adf0800a.png",[93,94,95],"Athletics","Track and Field","US Championships","## World-Leading 9.79 At US Championships\n\nNoah Lyles won the US athletics championship 100m in 9.79 seconds, the fastest time of 2024. His career best remains 9.78, set at the 2023 Budapest World Championships. One one-hundredth separates his two fastest performances.\n\nThe 9.79 came at a domestic championship without global finals pressure. Two sub-9.80 runs within a single year, one on European track at Budapest and one on US soil, confirm his speed reproduces across contexts. That repetition matters more than the single time.\n\nLyles enters the Olympic period atop the season list. 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