American track-and-field sprinter Noah Lyles took home the gold at the men's 100 meters during the World Athletics Championships on Sunday in Budapest, Hungary after registering a personal-best time of 9.83 seconds.
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This was a closely contested race that saw three sprinters (Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, Great Britain's Zharnel Hughes and Jamaica's Oblique Seville) all finish the race at 9.88 seconds.
Tebogo, Hughes and Seville ended up taking second, third and fourth respectively.