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- Updated: July 20, 2016
USA’s Noah Lyles was among the winners on the second day of the IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, as a total of six titles were claimed.
The 18-year-old, who finished fourth over 200m at the recent US Olympic trials, clocked 10.17 to claim victory ahead of Italy’s Filippo Tortu with 10.24 and Mario Burke of Barbados with 10.26.
Things had been close halfway into the race, but as Lyles began to move away from his rivals, Britain’s world youth bronze medallist Rechmial Miller pulled up with cramp.
Miller’s team-mate Oliver Bromby had run a 10.37 PB in the semi-finals but missed out on the final by a fraction as Miller secured the last qualifying place.
Germany’s Niklas Kaul secured victory in the decathlon after an eight-second PB of 4:21.70 in the final event, the 800m, took his score to 8162 points. He also threw a world under-20 decathlon javelin best of 71.59m. That championship record is also a world best within the under-20 decathlon (though 8397 is currently the official world under-20 record but that was set in the senior specification decathlon).
Maksim Andraloits of Belarus had led the competition from events three to nine and secured silver with a 8046-point national under-20 record, while Johannes Erm …
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