Thompson Pips Lyles To Avenge Paris Loss

'Really Excited' Jamaican Beats Olympic 100m Champion In World Championships Tune-Up

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Silesia – Kishane Thompson eclipsed Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles at the Silesia Diamond League meet on Aug. 16, and Keely Hodgkinson made an impressive comeback over 800m a year since winning gold at the Paris Games.

A host of world and Olympic champions headlined by the likes of Karsten Warholm—with an incredible performance in the 400m hurdles—Armand "Mondo" Duplantis, Faith Kipyegon, and Femke Bol shone in hot and humid conditions in front of more than 40,000 fans in the Polish city of Chorzow.

In their first meeting since Lyles won Olympic gold by just five-thousandths of a second at Paris 2024, Thompson made an electric start and led from gun to tape for victory in 9.87 seconds.

"My job is to get the job done," said Thompson. "I enjoyed competition against Noah today…nobody is perfect, but I am working on improving my strengths and improving on my weaknesses."

"Paris last year was a big learning factor. I learned it is me against myself."

Lyles had to be content with second in 9.90 seconds as the athletes fine-tune preparations for the Sept. 13-21 world championships in Tokyo.

"It makes me really excited for not only today, but also for next week and Tokyo," the American said.