Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei delivered a devastating last lap to win a third successive World Championship 10,000 metres gold on Sunday despite barely competing over 25 laps in the last three years.
The world record holder over 5000m and 10,000m has had an injury-hit year and struggled to hit his top form but, on a hot, humid night in Budapest he broke clear approaching the bell and stamped his authority over the field with a 53-second last lap to come home in 27:51.42.
Daniel Simiu Ebenyo of Kenya took silver with Selemon Barega of Ethiopia the bronze
He added the Budapest medal to his 2019 triumph in Doha, Qatar and 2021 in Oregon, USA.
The victory takes him level with Great Britain’s Mo Farah who won the world title in 2013 (Moscow), 2015 (Beijing) and 2017 (London).
Cheptegei and Farah are on title short of the Ethiopian duo of Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele who won the world title four times each.
Meanwhile, Katzberg takes shock hammer gold for Canada.
Canada’s Ethan Katzberg took a stunning World Championship hammer gold on Sunday with a massive national record throw of 81.25 metres in the fifth round.
Katzberg had smashed his personal best by more than two metres in qualifying and looked as if he could not believe he had triumphed in the final.
Poland’s Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki took silver with 81.02, with Hungary’s Bence Halasz bronze in 80.82.
Pole Pawel Fajdek, seeking a sixth successive world title to match the record of pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, finished fourth.
American Lyles sprints to gold in the 100m in world-leading time
Noah Lyles of the United States raced to victory in the 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, his first world title over the distance.
The two-times world champion in the 200m pulled ahead over the final 50m to cross in a personal best 9.83 seconds, matching the world-leading time this season.
Letsile Tebogo of Botswana clocked a time of 9.88 for silver, while Britain’s Zharnel Hughes also ran 9.88 for bronze.
The defending world champion Fred Kerley of the U.S. failed to qualify for the final after running 10.02 in his semi-final.
