World Athletics Championships live: Keely Hodgkinson beaten to 800m gold as Georgia Hunter Bell takes silver

Britain’s frustrating World Athletics Championships ended in more disappointment, despite two medals in the women’s 800m final, as the team failed to win a single gold in Tokyo:

Hunter Bell had debated racing at both distances at these championships before deciding to focus on the 800m, and was even holding camp room-mates with bronze medallist Hodgkinson.

It was nevertheless a brave and determined showing for Hodgkinson, who just last month returned from a 376-day injury-plagued absence after becoming the Olympic champion.

"I thought I had it, but she (Odira) came past. I did my best to hold on," Hodgkinson told BBC Sport.

"In that last 10m my legs were falling off a little bit because the first lap was so quick. I ran it how I ran it and this is what the result is."

Hodgkinson added: "I was in it to win it and when you do go for the gold, you do risk coming off the podium, or second or third. I am proud of both of us. We both got a medal.

"It is my third 1:54, so to be consistent through that this year is what I am really happy with. It is not what I came here for, but I can't be too disappointed."

Georgia Hunter Bell pipped training partner and Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to an 800 metres silver medal by one one hundredth of a second on the final night of action at the World Athletics championships in Tokyo.

The British duo were in gold and silver medal position - led by Hodgkinson - on the home straight until Kenyan Lilian Odira surged past them both to take gold in a championship record 1:54.62, leaving the British runners to battle each other for second.

Hodgkinson and Hunter-Bell had to wait before screens inside the stadium showed the latter, who claimed 1500m bronze on her Olympic debut in Paris last summer, had gotten over the line faster by the finest of margins in 1:54.90.

Botswana produced a brilliant performance to win the men's world 4x400m relay in atrocious conditions, edging out the United States and South Africa in a blanket finish to become the first African winners of the event.

As rain hammered down, the US – who had scraped into the final after beating Kenya in a run-off on Sunday morning – led the way at the final changeover.

However, Collen Kebinatshipi, the 21-year-old winner of the individual title, ran a fantastic leg to snatch gold in two minutes, 57.76 seconds.

The US, winners of nine of the last 10 world titles, changed all four athletes for the final from their morning runoff, and took silver from South Africa by two thousandths of a second after both being timed at 2:57.83.

The US resumed normal service in the women's final that followed on the drenched track with individual 400m champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone anchoring them to gold in 3.16.61.

The Americans finished the first lap neck-and-neck with the Jamaicans but Lynna Irby-Jackson ran a blistering second leg to give her team a comfortable lead that her last two teammates extended.

The Jamaicans held onto to second place in 3.19.25 despite the efforts of 400m hurdles gold medallist Femke Bol over the final leg for the Dutch defending champions, who finished third in 3.20.18.

Germany's Leo Neugebauer stepped up from his Paris Olympic silver to take the world championship decathlon gold on Sunday, as a huge javelin personal best set him up for a 1,500 metres that he paced perfectly.

The German's previous best javelin was 58.99 metres but he extended that to a scarcely believable 64.34 to leapfrog long-time leader Kyle Garland Puerto Rico's Ayden Owens-Delerme took silver and American Garland the bronze.

Garland had a solid start with the fifth-fastest 110 hurdles as Owens-Delerme clocked the best time of the day with 13.65 seconds.

Neugebauer had a poor hurdles but gained considerable ground with the discus, where his decathlon championship record throw of 56.15 metres was almost four metres better than anyone else in the field and eight metres ahead of Garland.

He followed up with a 5.10 metre pole vault, which Owens-Delerme matched for a personal best, and with Garland clearing only 4.80, things closed up

Neugebauer then had a dream javelin, throwing a personal best 61.00 metres and improving it to 64.34 to move to the top of the standings by a slender 15 points from Garland.

However, with a 1,500m personal best far superior to the American's he just needed to avoid disaster in the final event to take the gold.

On a sodden track, Owens-Delerme did all he could with a run of four minutes 17.91 seconds but Neugebauer showed terrific patience to clock a personal best 4:31.89 which was enough for gold.

Neugebauer ended with 8,804 points to the 8,784 of Owens-Deleme. Garland held on for third on 8,703.

Cole Hocker timed his run to the line to perfection to win a tactical 5,000m at the world championships and claim his first world title on Sunday, six days after he was disqualified from the 1,500 metres.

The 24-year-old American, who is Olympic champion at 1,500m, crossed the line in 12 minutes 58.30 seconds to make amends for being disqualified from the shorter race for barging through his rivals at the finish of his semi-final.

"I wanted to end the world championships on my terms," said Hocker.

"I felt I was robbed in the 1500m. I knew I had the opportunity today, that I had the legs to take this field. I had a lot of bodies ahead of me but I felt very strong, enough to pass them one by one."

Belgian Isaac Kimeli took silver in 12:58.78, and Frenchman Jimmy Gressier claimed bronze to add to his stunning gold in the 10,000m in Tokyo.

In the men's race, the final track event of what has been a fantastic nine days of action, the U.S. were slick in their handovers despite the testing conditions.

Kenny Bednarek got a gold to cheer him up after yet another silver in the 200m, but it was Lyles taking the spotlight again as he brought them home in 37.29 for his second gold after he won a fourth successive 200 following his bronze in the 100.

Fast-finishing Canada took silver in 37.55, with the Netherlands delighted to take bronze in a national record 37.81.

The United States finished the world championships in style as Noah Lyles and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden completed memorable individual weeks by helping their country to emphatic golds in both 4x100m relays in driving rain.

Jefferson-Wooden became the second woman to sweep all three sprint titles at one World Athletics Championships.

The 24-year-old, who won the 100-200m double in Tokyo, helped the United States to a lead at the last exchange and Sha'Carri Richardson brought the baton home in 41.75 seconds.

Jamaica finished second in 41.79 to send sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, whose 2013 sweep Jefferson-Wooden emulated, into retirement with a 17th world championship medal.

Germany came third in 41.87 for bronze on the back of a blistering final leg from Gina Lueckenkemper to see off Britain, who finished fourth in 42.07.

That concludes our coverage of the World Athletics Championships, with only one delayed event to finish – the men’s discus final.

USA end way clear at the top of the medal table with 16 golds, ahead of Kenya in second place. Britain finish well down the ladder after winning no golds at all for only the second time.

The women’s high jump final has just finished, and Australia’s Olyslager takes gold to add the outdoor world title to her indoor crown, with a clearance of 2.00m. She dances around the track in delight.