Doha (AFP)
The US relays, including 100 m world champion Christian Coleman and 200 m Noah Lyles, won Saturday the 4x100 m Doha World Cup.
The United States (Christian Coleman, Justin Gatlin, Michael Rodgers, Noah Lyles), winners in 37 sec 10, the third performance of all time, beat Britain (Adam Gemili, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, Mitchell Nethaneel -Blake), defending champion (37 sec 36), and Japan (Shuhei Tada, Kirara Shiraishi, Kiryu Yoshihide, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown), 3rd in 37 sec 43.
This is the first US world title in 12 years and the advent of Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt, retired in 2017.
Coleman and Lyles leave Qatar with two gold medals in their pocket.
For France (Amaury Golitin, Jimmy Vicaut, Meba-Mickael Zeze, Christophe Lemaitre), the final did not last very long since the Blues have dropped the stick from the first relay passage between Golitin and Vicaut.
Christophe Lemaitre, who had skipped the 200m and was not in the playoff series 4x100 m on Friday before being selected for the final, has not played any race in Doha.
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