Kipyegon first woman to bag 1500-5000 double at Worlds

Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson, the two faces of the World Athletics Championships, won their third and second gold medals 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, whilst 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 USA's Chase Ealey, who, like Duplantis, retained her title.