Doha — Exit Usain Bolt, enter the US. As the desert dust settled on the World Championships on Sunday, American sprinters were left celebrating their biggest medal haul in more than a decade.

After picking up just one gold medal in the men’s sprinting events in London two years ago, the Americans headed home with five out of a possible seven golds stowed away in their luggage...

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