• Swede clears 6.30m to claim gold in Tokyo

• Shoes with metal spike enable faster run-up

The pole vault competition was two hours and 20 minutes old when Mondo Duplantis finally got serious at these World Athletics Championships. The bar had just been raised to six metres. So Mondo reached into his kitbag and dug out the Claw.

It is his weird looking special shoe, with a spike protruding from the front of it like a medieval torture implement – and the 25‑year‑old Swede takes it out only on those occasions when he sniffs a world record in the air.

• Kishane Thompson takes silver with Lyles landing bronze

• Usain Bolt watches on in delight with Jamaican one-two

When Oblique Seville was 10, he told his mother he wanted to be trained by Usain Bolt’s coach Glen Mills. That came to pass when he joined the famous Racers Track Club in Jamaica. Now, on a night of exhilarating speed and twisting drama, he achieved a far bigger dream and emulated his hero by becoming the 100m world champion.

To make it even sweeter, he deli­vered the greatest performance of his career in front of Bolt himself, who was cheering and ­punching the air like a superfan as Seville ran down his ­fellow Jamaican Kishane ­Thompson in the final metres to secure gold in 9.77sec.

• Peres Jepchirchir denies Tigst Assefa to claim gold

• Julia Paternain learns of medal after crossing the line

Julia Paternain wasn’t sure where she had finished after a punishingly hot women’s marathon at these World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. So, as she crossed the line, she asked an official.

The answer had Paternain, the world’s 288th-ranked marathon runner, staring back at him in disbelief. She had won a bronze medal, Uruguay’s first ever at a world athletics championships.

• Beatrice Chebet roared on to 10,000m gold in Tokyo

• Kishane Thompson and Julien Alfred shine in 100m

There was a moment on the opening night of the World Athletics Championships when the bottled-up frustration of missing out on a full-fat Tokyo Olympics – with crowds and fun and unbridled joy – suddenly seemed to be unleashed. It came at the end of the women’s 10,000m, a roar that could have been heard on Mount Fuji, a vast outpouring of appreciation and pride.

At the front of the pack, four contenders were whittled down to two before the Olympic and world champion, Beatrice Chebet, took off with Italy’s Nadia Battocletti in pursuit. It was like watching Wile E Coyote chasing Roadrunner.