Canada’s Andre De Grasse Wins Gold in 200-m at Tokyo Olympics; Favorite Noah Lyles Finishes Third

Andre de Grasse of Canada won the 200-m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday night, finishing the race with a time of 19.62 seconds. Team USA’s Kenneth Bednarek won the silver, in 19.68 seconds. Favorite Noah Lyles of Team USA, the defending world champion in the event, took home a bronze, in 19.74 seconds.

The win gives de Grasse his fifth Olympic medal and his first gold. On Sunday he won bronze in the 100-m. He’s the first man not named Usain Bolt to win this race since 2004, when Shawn Crawford of the USA finished first in Athens.

The bronze is a clear d…