Overview

• Team USA finished first on the table with 26 medals, including 16 golds, to cap a dominant championships.
• Melissa Jefferson-Wooden swept the 100m and 200m and helped the U.S. win the 4x100m relay, while Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone took the 400m and anchored a 4x400m championship record of 3:16.61.
• Noah Lyles claimed a fourth straight 200m world title in 19.52 and led the U.S. men to 4x100m gold.
• Anna Hall won the heptathlon with 6,888 points to deliver the first U.S. women’s world title in the event since 1993, as Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Taliyah Brooks shared bronze and Ireland’s Kate O’Connor took silver in a national record.
• Kenya’s Lilian Odira surged to 800m gold in a 1:54.62 championship record as Botswana edged the U.S. to win the men’s 4x400m for the nation’s first world title in the event.