By Mitch Phillips

TOKYO (Reuters) -Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson and American Kenny Bednarek laughed their way into the world 100 metres final on Sunday, crossing the line smiling together in their heat with identical times to the thousandth of a second in 9.85 seconds.

Thompson, who lost the Olympic final to Noah Lyles by five thousandths last year, is a more relaxed athlete now and will hope to go one better in the final later on Sunday as he seeks Jamaica’s first world 100m title since the last of Usain Bolt’s triumphs in 2015.

Remarkably, Briton Zharnel Hughes and Canadian Jerome Blake were also timed the same to the thousandth in 10.03 to share third place behind them, but neither advanced.

Bednarek has gone under the radar somewhat as teammate Lyles hogs the headlines but will be a

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