Who is Noah Lyles?
He is an American professional track and field athlete who is specialized in sprints. He holds the 300-meters indoor world best within the time of 31.87 seconds since the 2017 USA Indoor Championships.
He won a gold medal in the 200 meters during the 2014 Olympic Games which was organised in Nanjing, China. He won gold medals in the 100 m and the 4 × 100-meter relays since the 2016 World U20 Championships in Poland. He won gold medals in the 200 meters and the 4 × 100-meter relays at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.
Quick Facts
Titles | Description |
Real Name | Noah Lyles |
Birth Place | Gainesville, Florida |
Date of Birth | 18th July 1997 |
Nationality | American |
Source of Income | Track and field, Brand Endorsement. |
Age | 24 years. (As of 2021). |
Father’s name | Kevin Lyles |
Mother’s name | Keisha Caine |
Star sign | Cancer |
School | Alexandria City High School, Virginia. |
Height | 5 feet 11 inches /180 Cm. |
Weight | 70 Kg / 154 Lbs. |
Profession | Track and field. |
Coach | Lance Brauman |
Olympic debut | 2020 Summer Olympic, Tokyo. |
Endorsements | Adidas, |
Achievements | Two golds at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships. |
Twitter/Noah Lyles | |
Instagram/Noah Lyles | |
YouTube | YouTube/Noah Lyles |
Net Worth | $ 2 million (Rs 14.82 Cr). |
Last Updated | August 2021. |
Early Life
He was born on 18th July 1997 in Gainesville, the county seat and the largest city in, Alachua County, Florida, United States. His mother’s name is Keisha Caine and his father is Kevin Lyles is an American former sprinter. He studied at Alexandria City High School which is in Alexandria, Virginia.
Career
His world lead of 100 m later was beaten by Baker (9.87 s) and then Christian Coleman (9.79 s). At the Herculis IAAF Diamond League meeting which was held in Monaco, he made a new record of 200 m lead and personal best time in 19.65 s. Before that, he also equalled his personal best and world lead at the Athletissima IAAF Diamond League meet to win the competition against Michael Norman, who had set the indoor world record in the 400-meter earlier that year.
He went into the IAAF Diamond League final, the Weltklasse Zürich. He again competed against world champion Ramil Guliyev who recently become a European champion, setting a personal best of 19.76 s in the process. The two were placed in adjacent lanes and ran evenly through the bend, but he started to move off on the straight and finished it in 19.67 s. Only one other individual who has been under 19.70 s four times in a career, is the world record holder Usain Bolt who also did it four times during his record-breaking 2009 season.
In July 2016, U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100 m and the 200 m. he failed from his first 100 m heat, but in the 200 m, he won his semi-final and then placed fourth in the final with a time of 20.09 s. After this achievement, he makes a record that broke after 31-year. Although he didn’t qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, he qualified for the 2016 World U20 Championships where he was a double gold medalist, taking the 100 m and 4 × 100 m relay titles.
He started 2017 with his first senior national title in the 300 m at the 2017 USA Indoor Championships n Albuquerque, New Mexico. Improving the indoor world record by one-hundredth of a second to 31.87 she earned a silver medal in the 4 × 200-meter relays with Team USA at the 2017 World Relays. He won two events in the 2017 IAAF Diamond League circuit, winning the final of American champion Ameer Webb and world champion Ramil Guliyev.
At the 2018 USA Championships, he focused on the 100 m matching the world lead of 9.89 s in the semi-final. American professional track and field sprinter Mike Rodgers had set the world lead a day before in a separate event. This left him a competitor of Ronnie Baker, who had run the 100 m in 9.78 s at the Prefontaine Classic earlier that year. In the final Baker got out a few meters ahead of him out of the blocks, but Lyles started to come back halfway through the race and just passed Baker in the last meter to win in 9.88 s, a new world lead and the personal best time for Lyles. He became the youngest U.S.
Social Media Portfolio
He has 34.9k followers on Twitter & on Instagram, he has 197k followers as of August 2021.
Apart from this, he has also his own YouTube channel with 14.7k subscribers as of August 2021.
Stats
Personal best
Championship | Mark | Location | Date |
100 m | 9.86 | Shanghai, China | 18-May-2019 |
150 m | 14.69 | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | 16-Jun-2019 |
200 m | 19.5 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 5-Jul-2019 |
400 m | 47.04 | Forestville, Maryland, U.S. | 23-Apr-2016 |
4×100 m relay | 37.1 | Doha, Qatar | 5-Oct-2019 |
4×200 m relay | 1:19.88 | Nassau, Bahamas | 23-Apr-2017 |
60 m indoor | 6.57 | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | 10-Feb-2018 |
200 m indoor | 20.63 | New York, New York, U.S. | 13-Mar-2016 |
300 m indoor | 31.87 A | Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. | 4-Mar-2017 |
High jump indoor | 2.03 m | Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. | 31-Jan-2015 |
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Wind (m/s) |
2013 | World Youth Championships | Donetsk, Ukraine | 9th | 200 m | 21.58 | −2.5 |
2nd | Medley relay | 1:50.14 | N/A | |||
2014 | Youth Olympic Games | Nanjing, China | 1st | 200 m | 20.8 | 0.3 |
2015 | Pan American U20 Championships | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | 2nd | 100 m | 10.18 | 0.4 |
1st | 200 m | 20.27 | 1.3 | |||
2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 1st | 100 m | 10.17 | −0.2 |
1st | 4×100 m relay | 38.93 | N/A | |||
2017 | World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 2nd | 4×200 m relay | 1:19.88 | N/A |
2018 | Continental Cup | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 1st | 100 m | 10.01 | 0 |
1st | 4×100 m relay | 38.05 | N/A | |||
2019 | World Relays | Yokohama, Japan | 2nd | 4×100 m relay | 38.07 | N/A |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 1st | 200 m | 19.83 | 0.3 | |
1st | 4×100 m relay | 37.1 | N/A |
Where is Noah Lyles from?
Noah Lyles age.
24 years. (As of 2021).
Noah Lyles Instagram.
Noah Lyles high school.
T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.
How much does Noah Lyles weigh?
70 kg/154 Lbs.
Noah Lyles height.
5 feet 11 inches /180 Cm.