TOKYO (Reuters) -Olympic sprint champion Julien Alfred has withdrawn from the women's 200 metres at the world championships because of a hamstring strain, her agent has told Television Jamaica. The Saint Lucian,

They ran for more than two hours and needed a photo finish to determine the winner, with Alphonce Simbu edging out Amanal Petros in the men’s marathon at world championships in a race decided by a sprint down the track at the finish.

Jamaica ’s Oblique Seville crowned himself world 100m champion after blazing to a personal-best 9.77 seconds in Tokyo, with American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden obliterating the world championship record to win gold in the women’s race in 10.61.

GB's podium prospects also include British 5,000m record holder George Mills, the experienced Laura Muir (women's 1500m) and rising star Charlie Dobson (men's 400m), as well as their five relay teams. GB finished seventh in the medal table in 2023, winning two gold medals, three silver and five bronze.

On Sunday, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden notably broke a world-championship record that was once held by Richardson.

This summer, teen running sensation Cooper Lutkenhaus made the US team to compete in Tokyo with a performance making “high school LeBron look like nobody.”

Watch BBC coverage of World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan From 11:35 BST: GB's Alastair Chalmers, Seamus Derbyshire and Tyri Donovan in 400m hurdles heats World record holder Armand Duplantis in pole vault final from 11:49 GB's Josh Kerr,

American double Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman finally claimed the world title that has proved so elusive when she took an emphatic gold in Tokyo with a throw of 69.48 metres on Sunday. Allman,