BUDAPEST, Hungary — Despite a disappointing fourth-place finish in the men’s 100m for the second-straight World Athletics Championships, after clocking 9.88 seconds (0.0m/s) in the final at National Athletics Centre, Jamaica’s Oblique Seville said after the season he has had he is pleased with what he accomplished.

Seville, who was restricted by injuries for most of the season and was third at the national championships a month ago — just good enough to get selected on the team — said the loss of composure in the last 20 metres of Sunday’s final in Budapest might have cost him a medal.

The finish was agonisingly close, with three men — from second to fourth place — running 9.88 and having to be separated by thousands of a second.

American Noah Lyles became the first man to win the World Championships title after winning the World Under-20 (2016 in Poland). He ran a world-leading 9.83 to take the gold medal.

Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, who had won back-to-back World Under-20 titles, ran a personal best and national record for the silver. Kingston, Jamaica-based Zharnel Hughes of Great Britain claimed bronze, his first major individual medal.

Ryiem Forde, the second Jamaican in the final, was eighth in 10.08. It was the first time Jamaica had multiple men in the 100m final since 2017.

“It was a pretty good race but I think I lost my composure in the final 20 metres because I dipped a little too early… I should have held my composure,” Seville told members of the media afterwards.

“We were all separated by a millisecond and I’m telling you, I can’t even explain if I am disappointed or happy… I don’t know what to say as everyone ran well,” he said.

“Yeah, if I should be frank with myself, I am disappointed. But also, I have to give credit to myself because not many people expected me to run that fast, and to do that well at this championships, and even to come fourth — so it’s actually something amazing again, even though I have done it before. But knowing that the setbacks that I have had during the season, and to come here, and to equal my personal best is really something very special,” he said.

Over an hour earlier in the semi-final Seville had raised the expectations of Jamaican fans in the stadium when he produced a sublime 9.90 (-0.3m/s) to win his race, beating Tebogo (9.98). Last year’s winner Fred Kerley placed third in 10.02 and failed to progress to the final.

Forde ran a personal best 9.95 (0.0m.s) for third place in his semi-final to advance on time. It was the seventh time this year he had lowered his lifetime best.