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The southern African nation finished fifth overall in the championship's medal standings - behind the US, Kenya, the Netherlands and Canada - their best ever return after taking two golds, one silver and a bronze.

On that occasion, they brought home two gold medals, three silvers and five bronze from Budapest.

Hunter Bell upgraded her Olympic bronze medal in a personal best time of 1:54.90 - a mere one hundredth of a second ahead of training partner and good friend Hodgkinson.

But the tears began to flow when her name - and Brooks' - appeared lit up in bronze on the big screen, tied on 6,581 points to become the first heptathletes to split a world medal.

Lyles, dethroned as world 100m champion on Sunday as he took bronze, captured gold in his favoured discipline five days later to secure his eighth global title.