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No top-three finish in Budapest at the World Championships but the Brit believes she can peak in Paris

A national hero stops and talks about treasure troves and - odd this - a high jumper is on a high.

All eyes are on Faith Kipyegon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. That’s because the Kenyan 1,500 metre and 5,000 metre star broke three world records in less than two months on her way to Hungary.

Fred Kerley lost out early to Noah Lyles and Katarina Johnson-Thompson frays the nerves before claiming the crown as the world's best all round female athlete. But it was all small beer in comparison to what happened later on down the river.

Hughes was just a thousandth of a second off silver in Budapest.

Noah Lyles lived up to his boasting on Sunday and claimed the men's 100m title at the world athletics championships in Budapest at the end of a pulsating night of action in which Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson produced two lifetime best performances to clinch gold in the women's heptathlon.

Johnson-Thompson won the fight to reclaim her world heptathlon crown from 2019 on Sunday night in Budapest.

Hughes took 100m bronze as the USA’s Noah Lyles won the title in Budapest

Hughes was third in the final at the World Championships in Hungary.