American dash star Noah Lyles made an announcement on Thursday on the Diamond League Remaining in Zurich, edging Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo in a photograph end within the males’s 200m.
Tebogo exploded out of the blocks and led for many of the race, however Lyles closed arduous within the closing metres, leaning on the line to win by simply two-hundredths of a second. He stopped the clock at 19.74 seconds (-0.6 m/s), his second-fastest time of 2025.
The Botswanan settled for second in 19.76, whereas Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic rounded out the rostrum for third in 20.14.
“It feels good to have six Diamond League wins—essentially the most in monitor,” Lyles mentioned afterward. “I noticed Letsile lean, so I leaned on the end line. However I knew I acquired it.”
6⃣ #DiamondLeague titles for @LylesNoah!
Noah Lyles simply pips Letsile Tebogo to victory with 19.74 within the 200m #DLFinal💎#ZurichDL🇨🇭
📷 @macroprophoto pic.twitter.com/5HjKHtBGjr— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) August 28, 2025
This marks Lyles’s second win over Tebogo within the 200m this yr (he beat him in Monaco additionally), following Tebogo’s upset victory on the Paris Olympics 12 months in the past. Tebogo’s gold medal in Paris was Botswana’s first-ever Olympic title in athletics.
The following time the rivals are anticipated to fulfill will probably be within the males’s 100m closing on the World Championships on Sept. 14. Lyles holds the head-to-head benefit within the shorter dash, with seven straight wins over Tebogo.
Marco Arop takes bronze in Diamond League 800m closing
Just like the 200m, the boys’s 800m got here right down to the wire, with Canada’s Marco Arop storming down the house stretch to problem Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi.
Wanyonyi surged to the entrance after the opening lap and appeared to tire within the closing 200m as Nice Britain’s Max Burgin and Arop closed in. However the Kenyan held on to win his third straight Diamond League 800m title in 1:42.37.
Burgin took silver in 1:42.42, simply forward of Arop, who completed third in 1:42.57, his second-fastest time of the season. The end result was a step in the fitting path for the Canadian document holder, who revealed in an interview this week that he had been coping with a minor damage.
For full outcomes from the Diamond League Remaining in Zurich, see right here.
