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Jamaican Oblique Seville has broken down how he floored a strong field that had Noah Lyles, Letstile Tebogo and Akani Simbine at the London Diamond League.
Jamaican sprinter Oblique Seville feels he is getting just in good shape for the 2025 World Championships following his impressive run at the London Diamond League on Saturday.
Seville obliterated a strong 100m field that had Olympics and world champion Noah Lyles, world silver medalist Letsile Tebogo, on-form Akani Simbine, homeboy Zharnel Hughes and Jamaican compatriot Ackeem Blake to record the only sub-10 of the race.
The 24-year-old clocked 9.86 seconds to win the race ahead of Lyles, who clocked a season’s best 10.00 seconds in his first 100m race of the season, while Hughes was third in 10.02 seconds.
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19:31 - 19.07.2025
Oblique Seville Stuns Noah Lyles, Akani Simbine With Dominant 100m Victory at London Diamond League
Oblique Seville got out of the blocks expertly before going on to maintain his form all the way to the finish, winning the race by daylight and leaving Noah Lyles and co in the dust.
Seville is delighted that everything he has been working on is finally coming to fruition, expressing how his win in London was a good indicator of what is to come at the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan in September.
What Has Seville Said About His Win in London?
“I am proud of how I ran amongst a stacked field, and to win. I was the only one to run under 10 seconds today, it is something special and phenomenal heading into a major championship later this year,” Seville said after the race.
“Everything I have been practicing in training, I delivered out there today. Coming out here and performing against these athletes makes me want to push a little harder. London is the place I wanted to run, so to get the Diamond League win here is very special to me.”
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Seville’s time in London was his fifth sub-10 of the season and the third in a row since clocking respective 9.83 and 9.84 seconds at the Jamaican national championships which was the World Championships trials last month.
Beating the likes of Lyles, Tebogo and Simbine underlines his status as one of the men to watch in Tokyo and he will hope to build onto his strong performance heading to September.
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