Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles is known for many things like painting his nails, being one the fastest humans in the world, and dating another track-and-field athlete. But fans don’t know a ton about his girlfriend.
Now with all eyes on the couple as they compete for their respective countries in the 2024 Paris Olympics and look to add more medals to their collections, fans want to find out more about Lyles’ partner, Jamaican track star Junelle Bromfield.
When Lyles and Bromfield started seeing each other
Lyles and Bromfield first connected on social media years before they started dating.
“So [in] 2017, she slides into my DMs. You know we started chitchatting a little bit,” Lyles said on the Fast Lane Lifestyle podcast. “I’m very defensive you know. I’m young to the scene and I’m over here thinking as she puts it, ‘I just broke the 300 indoor world record I can’t be just be giving my number out to nobody.’ You never know who is trying to advantage.”
Eventually, the athletes met up in person but something was off about their first date so they decided to just be friends. That is until 2022 when they saw each other again and wanted to give it another try.
They began dating in August 2022 and became Instagram official in December 2022.
Bromfield is a sprinter as well
Bromfield was born on Feb. 8, 1998, in Black River, Jamaica. She attended St. Elizabeth Technical High School and after graduation, enrolled at the University of Technology in Kingston to pursue a degree in law.
In 2021, before she competed in the Tokyo Olympics, she lost her mother, Sandra Farquharson, to cancer. Bromfield credits Lyles for encouraging her to go to therapy after her mom’s death and is thankful for the support she got from his mother, Keisha Caine.
“I started therapy about two years ago because my boyfriend is big on therapy and felt I needed it. It’s been really helpful because I’ve been dealing with survivor’s guilt, which was weighing on me,” Bromfield revealed in an interview with The Inside Lane. “Now, I feel like I can live my life fully and enjoy every moment because life is short.
“I want to give a big shout-out to my boyfriend and his mom because when I went to Florida, I wasn’t driving, and she took me to training and back every day, which was like 40 minutes. That’s a support that I’m extremely grateful for.”
Like Lyles, Bromfield won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Lyles told Bromfield ‘maybe she’ll be his wife … after track’
Bromfield explained how she and Lyles always try to make time for each other with their demanding training schedules and remembered something her beau said about life after their track careers end.
“At the World Championship, it was hard to meet because with our group we do recovery everything,” Bromfield explained, adding, “Your entire day is basically taken up. So we’re trying to go to breakfast and so on. And it was still hard, and he said well, ‘maybe after the track, you’ll be my wife.’”
