Noah Lyles is easily one of the biggest names in sports. The sprinter has won gold at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, shocking the world when he took home gold in the 100 meters, beating the competition by five-thousandths of a second. Talk about a photo finish. He’s not done though! There’s hope that he can take home two more medals at the Games, and while he has many people watching and cheering him on, someone who has become a mainstay in his corner is his girlfriend Junelle Bromfield.
Also a track star and Olympic bronze medalist (Tokyo Games in 2021), but for Jamaica, she too competed at the Olympics and has been by his side for all the frenzy.
We first caught wind of the couple last fall when he celebrated the completion of a successful track and field season with a baecation with Bromfield. While making headlines for his times at the Diamond League event in Zurich and the World Championships in Budapest during the summer, Lyles also went public with his girlfriend. After finishing his media runs following the season’s completion, the couple jet off to her native island country of Jamaica for some R&R and looked good together.
In addition to staying at Moon Palace Jamaica in Ocho Rios, the two hopped in an ATV for an off-road trail adventure, did a photo shoot with friends, including celebrated Jamaican sprinter, Shericka Jackson.
Per a sweet post from Bromfield, the two have known each other for some time, being friends for seven years. They celebrated one year together last year.
“Cheers to 7 years of friendship, 6 months of dating, 1 year of being your partner” she wrote, “And to forever loving you.”
In addition to his mom, she’s certainly been his biggest cheerleader as Lyles has exploded into stardom on the field and off.
During their baecation, he showed the beauty plenty of love, publicly telling her “It’s always fun doing life with you.” We love to see it.
Lyles has also become something of a style star. According to a interview he did with GQ, he said one part of his look came from Bromfield — his painted nails. She encouraged him to get them done at a time when he’d be reminding everyone, with his hands, that he won three gold medals at the World Championships in 2023.
“I’ve kind of wanted to do designs with my nails for a long time, but I’ve never really got into it,” he said. “Finally, my girlfriend was like: You just need to do it for Worlds. I show up at Planet Smoothie and the lady who’s getting us our drinks has these amazing nails. I’m like, where [sic] did your nails? And she gives me her contact. This person is so booked that it took me a month before we could even get on the list. We finally get on, I walk in, it is this little girl. I said, ‘How old are you?’ She said, ‘Well, I’ll be 16 next week.’ [Laughs] And she just started going at it.”
It’s always nice to see Black love isn’t it? Especially when it’s embraced by those with the most visibility and growing influence. It’s certainly a beautiful thing. Here’s to more baecations and gold medals for these two. Check out a few more fun moments between track’s biggest power couple.
