EUGENE -- Christian Coleman stunned world champion Noah Lyles to win the men's 100m in a world-leading 9.83 at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field.

The World Athletics Championships ran from Aug. 19-27, and informally served as a preview for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Noah Lyles had a herculean task in front of him. The World Championship double.

If early rounds were all about talk, then Noah Lyles made sure to make the final feel like whiplash.

The fast times across the United States last week showed that despite the limitations on the running world in 2020, athletes are still in good shape. This week’s premier sprint meet, the Inspiration Games, is primarily a remote competition with athletes competing virtually across a variety of venues throughout the world.  

Track and field has attempted to solve the challenges of racing while social distancing with remote match races, which pits competitors against each other simultaneously in separate locations. While the method is far less entertaining than the real thing, the sport has had fun with the circumstances by racing over unfamiliar distances. The Impossible Games and the OTC/ATC dual have gotten the format off to a good start, but I have some ideas for other virtual races I’d love to watch as we wait for the sport as we know it to return.

Below are FloTrack’s top five professional male performers of 2019:

The IAAF announced the 11 men’s finalists for 2019 Athlete of the Year on Monday. 

The 14th and final Diamond League meeting of the 2019 season went down on Friday in Brussels, Belgium, as 16 more Diamond trophies were awarded in the second of two final events. The results in the Belgian capital affirmed much of what we already knew heading into the final major competition before the World Championships, including more dominance from Noah Lyles, Timothy Cheruiyot and Sifan Hassan.

2019 USATF Outdoor Championships photos by Travis Miller.