American Noah Lyles claims 4th 200m world championship title
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The world's best sprinters, including Noah Lyles and Bryan Levell, return to the track on night seven at the world championships to contest the men's and women's 200m finals.
Amy Hunt wins Britain's second medal of the World Athletics Championships with silver in the women's 200m in Tokyo.
American Rai Benjamin clipped a hurdle and was briefly disqualified, but was eventually reinstated Friday as a first-time 400-meter hurdles world champion.
Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood), who burst on to the scene as a junior world record holder in 2019, fulfilled her promise on the senior global stage by storming home in 22.14 to occupy the second spot on the podium behind Melissa Jefferson-Wooden.
Levell, generally a man of few words, expressed satisfaction and pride in his performance, which not only returned a Jamaican man to the 200m podium for the first time in 10 years at the World Championships, but also catapulted him into the number three spot, as the fastest times ever recorded by a Jamaican in the event.
Benjamin got a long-awaited world championship gold medal, Femke Bol repeated hers, and more notes from a busy Day 7 in Tokyo.
McLaughlin-Levrone, who stepped away from hurdles to see what she might be able to do in the 400m flat, said she was every bit as focused on winning the title.