World champions gold rush for Lyles, Richardson and Kipyegon

BUDAPEST: Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson, the two faces of the World Athletics Championships, won their third and second golds respectively by anchoring the US to 4x100m relay triumphs in Budapest on Saturday.

On an enthralling night’s action Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis and Faith Kipyegon rubberstamped their authority in their events.

Charismatic Swede Duplantis retained his pole vault title, although he fell short of bettering his own world record, while Kenyan Kipyegon became the first woman to achieve the 1500 and 5,000m double, when she won the latter.

It was a night of firsts for Canada, who had earlier in the championships swept both the men’s and women’s hammer titles.

Marco Arop and Pierce LePage became the first Canadians to win the men’s 800m title and decathlon respectively.

Olympic champion Damian Warner gilded the lily for Canada in the decathlon, taking silver.

Yet another medal came Canada’s way with Sarah Mitton finishing second in the women’s shot put.

Mitton lost out to US’s Chase Ealey, who, like Duplantis, retained her title.

Lyles and Richardson, though, stole the show.

Lyles held up three fingers as he raced across the line, a big grin spread across his face as he added relay gold to his 100/200m double.

In achieving the double he became the fifth man to do so and with the treble the first since Usain Bolt in 2015 to sweep the lot.

Bolt, however, did it three times.

“This is the third gold for me here,” said 26-year-old Lyles.

“It’s sensational, amazing. You can’t do better. It’s out of control.”

Richardson’s run over the line ended in less elegant fashion as her momentum carried her into Lyles’s teammate Christian Coleman, both of them ending up on the ground.

“Dreams like this