By Mitch Phillips
TOKYO (Reuters) -Oblique Seville scorched to the world 100 metres gold in a personal best 9.77 seconds on Sunday, leading a Jamaican 1-2 ahead of Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, second again in 9.82.
Defending champion Noah Lyles took bronze in 9.89 as the United States failed to take the title for the first time since 2015.
Seville had looked the man to beat through the rounds in last year’s Olympics but finished last in the final. On Sunday he was again hot in his semi-final but kept his focus to deliver a fantastic race in front of a watching Usain Bolt, the last Jamaican to take the title.
Letsile Tebogo, Botswana’s Olympic 200m champion and 100 silver medallist in the world 100m two years ago, false-started and was disqualified in the final.
(Reporting by Mitch Phillips, editing by Clare Fallon)
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