Kenny Bednarek leads Americans to 1-2-3 finish in 200m sprint at Doha Diamond League

American sprinters continue to have bragging rights over their Canadian men's counterparts on the young track season.

Kenny Bednarek, fresh off winning 4x100-metre relay gold medal at World Relays last weekend, dominated the men's 200 metres in a winning and personal-best time of 19.67 seconds on Friday at a Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar.

The 2021 Olympic silver medallist now boasts a season world-leading time and also took down the 19.83 meet record held by fellow American Noah Lyles since May 4, 2018.

Courtney Lindsey, the 2023 NCAA silver medallist in the 200, held the previous world lead of 19.71. He finished second on Friday in 20.01, followed by Kyree King in 20.21, who ran 20.11 on April 20 at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.

Canada's Aaron Brown was fifth (20.29) at Qatar Sports Club in his first Diamond League race of the season. He ran 20.00 to open his 2023 campaign in the 200 in Botswana and went on to post a 19.98 season best last September in Brussels.

Last Sunday, Andre De Grasse, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Brown ran 37.89 in the final at World Relays behind Bednarek, King, Lindsey and Lyles (37.40).

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Brown, who trains with Bednarek, King and Lindsey in Montverde, Fla., told CBC Sports this week he was looking forward to testing himself against familiar competition.

"We had to race each other in the Bahamas, so now it will be fun to race individually and see how we stack up against each other.

"The extra motivation to do well is there for sure as they've all put up great performances so far and I want to get on the board, too."

The Toronto native has already achieved the 20.16 automatic entry standard for the Paris Olympics this