No one comes as close to Usain Bolt’s “Berlin” 200m world record as he does: Noah Lyles (25). The US superstar will be celebrating his ISTAF premiere in eleven days – the world champion will be starting in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium for the first time on Sunday, September 4. This is made possible by a training colleague: Gina L\u00fcckenkemper.<\/p>\n
“Right before the 200 m final at the World Championships in Eugene, we were talking about track and field meets,” Gina L\u00fcckenkemper recounts. “Noah said he was really up for an awesome meeting with a really cool atmosphere. So I replied, then you absolutely have to come to the ISTAF in Berlin. And since Noah had always wanted to run in the Olympic Stadium, the matter was quickly settled.”<\/p>\n
At the ISTAF, the U.S. superstar will start in the 100 meters and attack his own personal best (9.86 seconds). The two-time 200-meter world champion is the third-fastest athlete of all time in his parade discipline (19.31 seconds). Only Jamaican Yohan Blake (19.26 seconds, Brussels 2011) and Usain Bolt, who stormed to a world record at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium (19.19 seconds), have ever been faster over the 200 meters.<\/p>\n
Gina L\u00fcckenkemper and Noah Lyles train in Clermont in Florida together with other stars in a training group. “Noah is an exceptional athlete, a born entertainer, very creative and musical, dedicated and just a kind-hearted person,” says Gina L\u00fcckenkemper. “Noah sometimes invites the whole group to his house and then DJs. Those are always nice events.”<\/p>\n
At the ISTAF on September 4, 2022, numerous European Championship heroes and stars from all over the world will compete compactly on a Sunday afternoon. 15 disciplines are on the program: women: 100 m, 400 m, 5000 m, 100 m hurdles, long jump, discus throw; men: 100 m, 400 m, 1500 m, 110 m hurdles, 400 m hurdles, high jump, pole vault, javelin throw, para-shot put.<\/p>\n
In the 100 m, Noah Lyles will meet, among others, the “young guns” of the fast German sprint relay: Kevin Kranz, Joshua Hartmann, Owen Ansah and Lucas Ansah-Peprah.<\/p>\n
Tickets and further information are available by phone on the ISTAF ticket hotline 030 30 111 86-30 and online in the ticket store at www.tickets.istaf.de.<\/p>\n
Photo: Gladys Chai von der Laage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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