World and Olympic champion Noah Lyles opened up for the first time about his sporting family lineage and how they have shaped his career.
Reigning world’s fastest man Noah Lyles is one of the top sprinters in the past five years, having won multiple world and Olympic medals to dominate the men’s sprint.
At the Paris Olympic Games, the talented speedster blazed to the men’s 100m title in a personal best time of 9.79s – USA’s first gold medal in the event since 2004.
Noah Lyles blazed to the Olympic 100m gold medal in Paris
Lyles’ accomplishment in the French city was a follow-up to an outstanding 2023 season which saw him win three gold medals (100m, 200m, and 4x100m) at the World Championships in Budapest, thus sealing his name as the 2023 and 2024 world’s fastest man.
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In the past five years, Lyles has maintained a dominant form by winning at least a medal at a major championship, making him one of the most decorated track athletes.
Interestingly, the 29-year-old has revealed how growing up in a sporting family lineage filled with Olympians has played a major role in his drive to succeed and be a renowned name in track and field.
Noah Lyles and his brother Josephus Image source: Imago
“My experience was a little different because I grew up in a very sports dominated family. Both of my parents were track & field athletes. My dad actually was professional for Adidas for a few years…,” said the six-time world champion on Beyond The Records podcast.
“Like one of my godparents, Jearl Miles Clark, five-time Olympian she was the 800 American record holder, multi-Olympic champion, and her family is a family of runners. So her husband who coached her also coached my dad,” he added.
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“So here I am surrounded by Olympians growing up and I’m just going along throughout my day thinking, I mean if you want to be an Olympian you just go get it right, like it’s like getting a driver’s license like that’s how many Olympians like I was around at my younger ages.”
Lyles has a loaded 2025 season ahead to try and maintain his status as the world’s fastest man, by qualifying and attempting for the 60m gold medal at the world indoor championships in March, as well as aiming to retain his titles at the world championships in Tokyo this summer.
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