"Please give an overall site rating:For a moment at Thursday's Inspiration Games, American sprinter Noah Lyles was the fastest man in history. "That cannot be right, can it?!" Like us on Facebook to see similar storiesThe 22-year-old appeared to run an astonishing time of 18.90 seconds in the 200m, which would have, by some way, eclipsed Usain Bolt's world record of 19.19 seconds, which has stood since 2009.A rough calculation by Insider suggests that if Lyles had run the full 200 meter distance, he'd have run a time of around 20.4 seconds — fast, but by no means world-beating.The Inspiration Games was the first global track competition since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Lyles crosses the finish line at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida during the 200m race. 'Lyles crosses the finish line at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida during the 200m raceLyles, 22, from Gainesville in Florida, has personal bests of 9.86 seconds in the 100m and 19.50 seconds for the 200m. The 100m and 200m world record progressions, and how Usain Bolt has rewritten history Save Bolt poses with just one of his world record times, recorded at … Usain Bolt’s WR splits were 5.60, 9.92, 14.44 and 19.19. The 22-year-old appeared to run an astonishing time of 18.90 seconds in the 200m, which would have, by some way, eclipsed Usain Bolt's world record of 19.19 seconds, which has stood since 2009. Another gold and another world record followed in the 200m, with the Jamaican clocking 19.30 to eclipse Michael Johnson’s time at Atlanta 1996. Usain St Leo Bolt, OJ, CD is a Jamaican former sprinter and widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. Watch … Noah Lyles briefly appeared to have set an astonishing new 200m world record - beating Usain Bolt's best by 0.29 seconds - before it was revealed he had run 15m short.
To compound matters, Lyles' time was then removed from the race results and the £7,930 ($10,000) prize awarded to Lemaitre instead.And Lyles crossed the finish line some way ahead, placing his hands on his head in disbelief before the unwelcome news of the starting block mix-up broke.Noah Lyles was clocked at a world-record time for the 200 metres... until it was discovered bungling organisers started his run from the wrong placeJamaican sprinter Usain Bolt holds the 200m world record, clocking 19.19 seconds in 2009Lyles' younger brother Josephus, also an athlete, tweeted: 'Is this real?? American sprinter Noah Lyles looked to have smashed Usain Bolt's 200m world record in the Inspiration Games only to find out shortly afterwards that the time was invalid because he had only run 185m.