Richardson, Lyles help U.S. sweep relay golds

TOKYO -- Sha'Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles blasted done the anchor legs of back-to-back wins successful the rainy 4x100s Sunday nighttime to adjacent retired satellite championships with a relay expanse for the U.S.

Richardson received the baton with a .01-second shortage against Jamaica, but made it up and past held connected for a .04-second margin. The winning clip was 41.75 seconds.

It handed teammate Melissa Jefferson-Wooden her 3rd golden medal of the conscionable and sent 38-year-old Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce location with metallic - her 17th medal from the worlds successful a vocation she says is ending this year.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone anchored the U.S. women to triumph successful the 4x400 and Cole Hocker won golden successful the 5,000 connected the champion nighttime of the conscionable for the United States.

The U.S. closed with 26 medals and 16 golds, a more-than-respectable full aft a frustrating start. The 26 wide medals are the aforesaid fig they captured successful the aforesaid stadium 4 years agone astatine the Tokyo Olympics. Only 7 were golden that time.

Lyles teamed with Christian Coleman, Courtney Lindsey and Kenny Bednarek for his 2nd golden to enactment a clasp connected the U.S. struggles successful the relays. The U.S. won successful 37.29 - .26 up of Canada.

In fact, the Americans person a worlds winning streak - 2 successful a enactment counting 2 years agone successful Budapest.

The contention was tally without Jamaica and its golden and metallic medalists, Oblique Seville and Kishane Thompson, from the 100. This year, it was Jamaica that struggled with the baton and didn't get retired of qualifying.

The lone miss for the U.S. progressive the men's 4x400 team.

It came down to a last-lap sprint betwixt 400-hurdles champ Rai Benjamin of America and 400-flat champ Collen Kebinatshipi of Botswana.

Benjamin received the baton with a .19-second pb but couldn't clasp disconnected Kebinatshipi, who bushed him to the enactment by .07 to springiness emerging sprint powerfulness Botswana its archetypal relay triumph successful 2:57.76.