Day Two (2) of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest concluded with a new 100m champion, and history for a 20-year-old Botswanan. 

The 100m event was billed to be the Fred Kerley vs Noah Lyles show, but after the defending champion surprisingly failed to make the final, history beckoned for the winner, and for the two Africans in the race, Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, a podium place was history in itself. 

It was a challenge duly accepted by the 200m specialist Tebogo, who stormed to a silver medal place with a new national record of 9.88s, consequently becoming the first African to win a 100m medal at the world championships. 

Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes finished 3rd behind him. Jamaica’s Oblique Seville came through in 4th. The pair, also finishing with the same time as the African, just edged it by 1000th of a second.

Lyles took the win in a world-leading time of 9.83s and explained why he decided to double both the 100 and 200.

"Everyone knows I'm the fastest, but in order for me to say that with absolute certainty, I needed to double," he said at the winners' press conference.

Elsewhere on Day 2, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, successfully defended his 10,000m title, becoming the 4th person to win three straight world championship gold medals in the event. 

Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Bashim made history at the Olympics when they shared the gold medal in the men’s high jump, and that could happen at these championships too, after they both successfully sailed through the high jump qualifiers. 

The women’s 100m were the highlights of the day’s morning session, with defending champion Shelly-ann Fraser Pryce, world leader Shericka Jackson, American Sha’Carri Richardson and Cote d’Ivoire’s Marie Josee Ta Lou all making it through. 

The semi-finals of the women’s 100m is scheduled for Monday, but there’s a spicy prospect that has pitched Richardson, Jackson and Ta Lou against each other. 

There was also gold for Canada's Ethan Katzberg in the men's Hammer throw with a new national record throw of 81.25m.

Great Britain's Katherine Johnson-Thompson, returned to reclaim the title she was in 2019 in the women's heptathlon, with defending champion, Nafi Thiam of Belgium missing the competition through injury.

Serbia's Ivana Spanovic finally claimed gold in the women's long jump, leaping 7.14m to victory. The USA's Taara Woodhall (6.91) and Belgium's Alina Rotaru (6.88m) took silver and bronze respectively.

Sifan Hassan and Faith Kipyegon also cruised through to the finals of the women's 1500m, setting up a potentially tantalising affair in the final.

But there was no fairytale story for Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who attempted to defend her 400m title, just four months after she gave birth. It was not meant to be as she finished 7th in her heats. 

There’s no morning session on Monday, with all eyes set on the women’s 100m final in the evening, with the Ghanaian contingent not set to compete until Wednesday.