Gout Gout Lyles runs 14.67 world best at Ostrava Golden Spike
gout gout was part of a fast night at the Ostrava Golden Spike, but Noah Lyles closed it by running 14.67 for a world best over the unofficial 150m. The Olympic 100m champion beat the previous curved-track best of 14.92 and left Ostrava with the clearest sprint mark of the meet.
Noah Lyles at Ostrava
Lyles’ run is the number that stands out first. The 14.67 effort bettered Kishane Thompson’s 14.92 and came on a distance that does not sit in the standard championship schedule, which is why the time lands as a world best rather than a record in the usual sense.
The event gave him a clean stage to finish on, and he used it. In a meet built around middle-distance and sprint marks, his late-night run became the performance that set the pace for the rest of the card.
Audrey Werro Holds Firm
Audrey Werro won the women’s 800m in 1:54.55, with Femke Broeders-Bol second in 1:57.13. Werro was in contention at 600m before fading slightly, but the Swiss athlete still handled the race well enough to add another win to her season.
That followed her 1:53.98 in Stockholm two weeks earlier, a mark that was the third fastest women’s 800m time ever and the fastest in the world this year. Even with that form, she remains without a medal at a major championship, and the Ostrava result keeps her in the same sharp time range without changing that gap.
Broeders-Bol’s 800m Shift
Broeders-Bol’s second place carried its own context. The two-time 400m hurdles world champion was running her first outdoor race at 800m, after announcing last year that she was changing events and after marrying Belgian pole vaulter Ben Broeders earlier this year.
She is already a gold medallist anchor leg runner with the Netherlands’ 4x400m team from Paris 2024, so the move adds a new test to a career built on speed and relay strength. Eight women finished inside two minutes in the race, leaving the front of the field tight even as Werro separated herself for the win.
For Ostrava, the lasting sprint headline is Lyles’ 14.67. For Werro, the 1:54.55 keeps her among the fastest women in the event this year, and for Broeders-Bol, 800m is now part of the picture rather than a one-off.
