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Fred Kerley lost out early to Noah Lyles and Katarina Johnson-Thompson frays the nerves before claiming the crown as the world's best all round female athlete. But it was all small beer in comparison to what happened later on down the river.

The heptathlete overcame career-threatening injury fears while Zharnel Hughes won Britain’s first men’s world 100m medal for 20 years

Noah Lyles lived up to his boasting on Sunday and claimed the men's 100m title at the world athletics championships in Budapest at the end of a pulsating night of action in which Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson produced two lifetime best performances to clinch gold in the women's heptathlon.

Hughes took 100m bronze as the USA’s Noah Lyles won the title in Budapest

Just over six years ago, a popular movement stymied plans for Budapest to enter a bid to stage the 2024 Olympic Games. Out of that surge against Viktor Orban's government came the Momentum political party.

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The two-time world 200m champion is targeting a treble in Budapest this month.

The city itself will be one of the brightest stars at the Paris Olympics, with ceremonies on the Seine, beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower and a marathon route that passes through Versailles

The 28-year-old shaved 0.21 seconds off the previous national mark of 19.94 seconds.

Zharnel Hughes clocked in at 19.73sec to set a new 200m British record as he finished third in the Diamond League meeting in London

It is just a month since the British sprinter broke Linford Christie’s 100m record with the fastest time in the world this year