Media caption, World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024: Christian Coleman beats Noah Lyles to gold By Harry Poole BBC Sport in Glasgow World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024 Dates: 1-3 March Venue: Emirates Arena, Glasgow Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and online; Listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra & BBC Sounds; Live text and video highlights on the BBC Sport site and app. American Christian Coleman states he is “stepping into his prime” after whipping Noah Lyles to 60m gold in their face-off at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Coleman, the world record holder in the occasion, clocked a world-leading 6.41 seconds to take an excellent triumph. World 100m and 200m champ Lyles, notable to include to his broadening list of worldwide sprint titles, ran 6.44. Jamaican Ackeem Blake beat Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala to bronze in 6.46. “These chances puton’t come around typically when you are sensation great and healthy,” stated 2019 world 100m champ Coleman, who won his last world indoor title on British soil in Birmingham 6 years earlier. “I am delighted. It is 2024 and I am stepping into my prime psychologically, physically and spiritually. I am going to have to be on my A-game and I feel positive I will be there [at the Olympics].” Elsewhere, Great Britain’s Morgan Lake endedup 6th in the females’s high dive last. The 26-year-old came into the champions with medal aspirations however was notable to enhance on her final-round clearance at 1.92 metres, as Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers beat Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh to gold. British group captain Laviai Nielsen certified for Saturday’s 400m last and Jemma Reekie protected her location in Saturday’s 800m semi-finals. GB will likewise have 2 agents in the ladies’s 1500m last – the last occasion of the weekend on Sunday – in Georgia Bell and Revee Walcott-Nolan, while Adam Fogg advanced in the males’s occasion inspiteof tripping. Also amongst the 5 gold medal winners on the opening day of competitors at Emirates Arena, American Ryan Crouser and Canada’s Sarah Mitton were crowned shot put champs, while Belgium’s Noor Vidts won the ladies’s pentathlon. Coleman upstages Lyles in Friday’s huge ending Showman Lyles revealed himself as sports’ long-awaited follower to Usain Bolt by winning a amazing treble gold at last year’s World Championships in Budapest, which likewise consistedof success in the 4x100m relay. And the 26-year-old hasactually specified his inte
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