Noah Lyles of the U.S. won the men's 100-meter gold medal in 9.83 seconds at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday.

Lyles was in Lane 6 and in the fourth place at the halfway mark, but managed to beat every sprinter ahead of him, all to his left.

"I came here for three golds, ticked off one, others are coming," Lyles said after the victory. "[The] 100m was the hardest on ... I will have fun with the event I love now [the 200m]."

"[Christian] Coleman always has the fast start. He had it the whole season, he was even getting better and better. I expected him to do what he does and if he would be the only one in front of me, it would be my race. I needed to make sure that I was accelerating, when I was at the 60m, I took the lead," he added.

Previously known by many as a 200-meter specialist who won the event's gold in Eugene, Oregon, in 2022, Lyles became the first after Jamaica's Usain Bolt to complete the 100-200 meter double at the Olympics or the World Championships. He will try to defend the 200-meter honor on Friday.

Lyles posted on social media before the World Championships that he could run 9.65 seconds, which was scoffed at by the event's defending champion Fred Kerley. Kerley was eliminated in the semifinals in which 20-year-old Letsile Tebogo of Botswana posed a bigger threat to Lyes.

Tebogo finished the final in 9.88 seconds and secured the silver medal, becoming his country's first men's 100-meter medalist at the World Championships.

"This medal isn't for me, it's for Botswana, for Africa, because Africa has been short of medals in men's sprints," Tebogo said. "It's really amazing for Africa; we have been thirsting for a medal."

Zharnel Hughes of Britain took the bronze medal 0.001 second behind Tebogo. He is the country's first medalist of the event at the World Championships in 20 years.

"All these years, all these years of lessons, tribulations, of patience, I stuck to it," Huges said. "I had self-belief and trust in speed, my coach, and it's all come together at last in the 100m at a world championships: I am a bronze medalist."