While Noah Lyles may have a packed schedule from mid-April onwards, after choosing to skip the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, the 28-year-old has only one focus on his mind right now. Despite announcing multiple races, Lyles’ current emotional and mental focus is on his Jamaican fiancée and their big day. So much so that the American sprinter took to social media to show the world he simply couldn’t wait.

That outpouring of emotion was evident when Lyles took to social media to post a simple but eager message to his fiancée, Junelle Bromfield, ahead of their wedding on April 4th.

“24h till we say “I do”,” Lyles wrote on his official X account.

The post came with a photo of the two sprinters celebrating, dressed to the nines while Lyles sprayed champagne with a gleeful smile on his face. The 28-year-old American sprinter and Bromfield, also 28, have been engaged for nearly two years, with their respective schedules playing a big role in pushing the wedding to 2026.

But that comes as no surprise given that their relationship has been about them not forcing the issue from the very start. While the couple have been together for nearly four years, they’ve known each other for a lot longer. It all started in 2017, when they connected on social media before meeting in person, though their first date didn’t quite go as planned.

Instead, Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield opted to stay friends before the latter moved to the same city five years later, and Lyles saw it as fate.

They started dating in 2022 and have since become one of the internet’s favourite couples. That includes poking fun at each other across social media to showing their love during various track and field events over the years. Lyles eventually proposed to Bromfield in October 2024, with the wedding planned for Spring 2026. 

Yet despite that, Noah Lyles knew he was going to marry Junelle Bromfield within the first year of their relationship.

Noah Lyles opens up on his proposal to get Junelle Bromfield to marry him

That doesn’t come as much of a surprise, especially given their unwavering support for each other, as recounted across podcasts and social media. Not only that, Lyles’ proposal to Bromfield also reflects that, as he posted a video of the elaborate plan he had created before proposing to her in front of friends and family.

However, even then, that was a year in the making, as Lyles revealed in a June 2025 interview that he knew Bromfield was the one for him in their first year. Yet he bided his time patiently and waited before eventually making the move.

“Around June 2024, I started looking for a ring, but I had known a lot more before,” Lyles told Essence. “I knew that we were going to get married in our first year of dating, but I thought it would be too crazy to propose in the first year, so I waited. 

“I knew I was going to start looking for a ring around April 2024, and that’s when I took Junelle ring shopping, and she was very confused on why we were going shopping cause she didn’t know that was a thing.”

That’s not as shocking when you consider the history the two had shared up until that point, having known each other for almost seven years. But Lyles ensured that he planned everything down to the minute details in order to make it the perfect moment for his future fiancé.

“It took about four months of planning to get the proposal ready, and on many occasions, I was thinking about just throwing it all out the window and just spontaneously proposing to her, but she told me that I could not surprise her on the day when I propose,” Lyles explained. “So I took it as a challenge and stuck to my guns and waited for the day that I had chosen.”

And now, on the brink of their wedding and despite what will be a busy season ahead of him, Noah Lyles finally gets the moment he’s been waiting for – marrying Junelle Bromfield.