Ten years on, the men&rsquo;s 800m final at the London Olympics remains suspended in time as 1:40.91 of sheer athletic perfection and grace.
It might have been a decade ago but David Rudisha&rsquo;s run in the English capital&rsquo;s showpiece Olympic arena on the evening of Thursday 9 August 2012 is a timeless two-lap tour de force.
If you check out the Kenyan&rsquo;s gait as he strides majestically up the home straight, you will see the form not so much of a master of the middle distances, but of a natural sprinter pushing back the boundaries of high-speed endurance.
That, in essence, is what the 6ft 3in Maasai warrior accomplished as he claimed Olympic 800m gold in the style of Alberto Juantorena, setting new world record figures in the process.
In Montreal in 1976, Juantorena took 0.20 off Marcello Fiasconaro&rsquo;s world record as he galloped to victory in 1:43.50. The great Cuban was nicknamed El Caballo, the horse.
There was more than a touch of the thoroughbred about Rudisha&rsquo;s stunning display of sustained pace. He blitzed through 200m in 23.5, 400m in 49.28 and 600m in 1:40.91.
A herd of 50 cattle were slaughtered in his honour at his initiation ceremony as fully-fledged Maasai warrior in 2010. Two years on, the smooth-striding powerhouse of a Kenyan slaughtered both the opposition and his own world record.
<h2>"Most extraordinary piece of running ever"</h2>
Rudisha led from gun to tape and finished 0.18 clear of 18-year-old Botswanan Nijel Amos in 1:40:91. That was precisely 0.10 inside the global mark he set in Rieti in 2010.
His average speed per 200m section was 25.22. 
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David Rudisha next to his world 800m record figures at the London 2012 Olympic Games (&copy; Getty Images)
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The 80,000 crowd watched in wonder. Up in the main stand, the chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, Sebastian Coe, was as awestricken as anyone. &ldquo;It was the most extraordinary piece of running I have ever seen,&rdquo; he said.
The future president of World Athletics was a two-time world record-holder for the two-lap distance. His best time was 1:41.73, which Amos matched with a world U20 record in second place.
&ldquo;That is one of the few races I watch back and I remember everything about it,&rdquo; the quietly-spoken, self-effacing Rudisha confided in a Kenyan television documentary. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just as fresh as yesterday.
&ldquo;I ran the race exactly the way I planned, only a little faster. I wanted to run 1:41.00. When I saw 1:40-something on the clock, it was a little bit of a surprise.&rdquo;
<h2>"Iconic race"</h2>
Breathtaking as it was for the watching world to behold, the performance came as little surprise to the genial soul who was the chief architect of Rudisha&rsquo;s 2012 Olympic success &ndash; and those of countless other Kenyans on the international track and field stage.
As was his wont on the major occasions for his athletes, Brother Colm O&rsquo;Connell was far from the madding crowd of London. The Irish missionary watched the fastest 800m race in history on television, while leaning against the bar of the Kerio View Hotel on the edge of the Great Rift Valley in Iten. 
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World record-holder David Rudisha with his coach, Colm O'Connell (&copy; Myra McSweeney)
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In keeping with his unassuming nature, Brother Colm likes his world-beating middle and long distance runners to get on with the business of winning their global titles without their coach getting in the way of the attendant fuss at major championships. He raised a quiet pint in celebration of Rudisha&rsquo;s awesome victory, the champagne moment of the track and field programme at London 2012.
&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t need to be in London to see David running in an iconic race,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;When my athletes develop and grow to become successful senior athletes, that&rsquo;s enough for me. They don&rsquo;t need me to be there with them at their major races.
&ldquo;David had everything in place when he went to London.&nbsp; He was a championship runner. He was world record-holder. He was prepared mentally.
&ldquo;He was on top form, on top of his game. He had everything he needed, and everything went well for him there.&rdquo;
Everything has gone rather well for Brother Colm since the day he arrived at St Pat&rsquo;s - St Patrick&rsquo;s High School, a boarding school for boys, 7,900 ft above sea level at Iten in Kenya&rsquo;s Rift Valley.
A geography teacher with no prior involvement in athletics, he learned the rudiments of middle and long distance training from the colleague he was being trained to succeed as PE coach: Pete Foster, brother of Brendan Foster.
&ldquo;I arrived in July 1976, the same week the Montreal Olympics opened,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;We listened on Pete&rsquo;s beaten-up old radio to the BBC commentary of Brendan running in the 10,000m and winning a bronze medal.&rdquo;
<h2>"OK, the genes are right"</h2>
Rudisha became Brother Colm&rsquo;s sixth Olympic champion. His first was Peter Rono, who succeeded Coe as 1500m champion with his surprise victory in Seoul in 1988.
He first saw Rudisha run in in 2004, in a 200m race at the Rift Valley Provincial District Primary School Championships. &ldquo;Soon after, I saw this tall young Maasai boy running in another race and I invited him to a training camp,&rdquo; Brother Colm recalled.
&ldquo;I asked him what his name was and he said, 'David Rudisha'. I said, 'There&rsquo;s only one other Rudisha I&rsquo;ve ever heard of: Daniel Rudisha. Are you related to him?'
&ldquo;He said, &lsquo;Yeah, he&rsquo;s my father.&rsquo; I thought, &lsquo;OK, the genes are right&rsquo;.&rdquo; 
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Steve Cram, David Rudisha, Sebastian Coe and Alberto Juantorena at the Centenary Historic Exhibition (&copy; Giancarlo Colombo)
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Rudisha&rsquo;s father anchored the Kenyan 4x400m relay team to silver medals behind USA at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968.
&ldquo;David was big and strong for his age and he actually started as a decathlete,&rdquo; Brother Colm recalled. &ldquo;When I started coaching him, he&rsquo;d moved on to being a 200m/400m runner.
&nbsp;&ldquo;That first year he ran sprints and then, almost by chance at the end of a month&rsquo;s training with me in 2005, I said to him, &lsquo;I&rsquo;d just like to see you run 800m, just to see what you can do.&rsquo;
&ldquo;He ran 1:49 on the track at St Pat&rsquo;s.&rdquo;
Just a year later, in August 2006, Rudisha won the 800m title at the World U20 Championships in Beijing in 1:47.40. In 2008 he ran 1:44.20 to win the African senior title in Addis Ababa.
Two years after that, on 22 August 2010, came his first world record. His 1:41.09 in Berlin eclipsed the 1997 mark of 1:41.11 held by another of Brother Colm&rsquo;s St Pat&rsquo;s proteges, the Kenyan-turned-Dane Wilson Kipketer.
Seven days later Rudisha improved his world record to 1.41.01 in Rieti, and twelve months later he won the world 800m title in Daegu.
<h2>Successful title defence in Rio</h2>
If 2012 was to be his annus mirabilis, there were three years of heartache and toil to endure before the 800m Olympic champion and world record-holder overcame a serious knee problem and regained his world title in Beijing in 2015.
The year after that, in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, he became the first man since the great flying Kiwi Peter Snell to retain the Olympic 800m title. Then, since a final flurry on the European circuit in 2017, has he not run since run due to injury, though he has yet to announce his official retirement. He is still the fastest 800m man in history, and perhaps the finest of all the golden boys to have emerged from Brother Colm O&rsquo;Connell&rsquo;s truly grounded school of champions. 
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David Rudisha at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (&copy; Getty Images)
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The long-time head coach of St Pat&rsquo;s chuckles at the mention of the Swedish scientist who brought him the gift of a heart rate monitor. &ldquo;Yeah, it&rsquo;s still in my drawer,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I come from a background of not being very technical, of having very basic facilities. Like other traditional coaches, I like to keep it simple.
&ldquo;I think most of the Kenyan athletes will tell you that their approach is not very scientific - in terms of heart rate monitors and measuring blood and lactic acid, all these factors you have in the west. Coming from a poor background, science and facilities were never going to be big factors in their training or lifestyle.&rdquo;
There was, however, one piece of modern technology that Rudisha utilised to help him become the fastest two-lap runner in history. The one-time decathlete might have been cast in a similar mould to Juantorena but it was the featherweight Coe that he always strove to emulate.
&ldquo;If you see the way Sebastian Coe used to run, he was small, yes, but he was a really strong athlete,&rdquo; Rudisha said. &ldquo;I watched many videos of his races on YouTube and in his world records he was really strong, pushing in the last 200m all the way.
&ldquo;He became a good friend of mine. I went to London in February of 2012 and he took me around the Olympic Stadium.
&ldquo;I wanted to come back for the Games and make him proud.&rdquo;
When it came to the 800m final in London 10 years ago, the great Maasai warrior certainly did that.
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics Heritage

Ten years on, the men’s 800m final at the London Olympics remains suspended in time as 1:40.91 of sheer athletic perfection and grace

Remembering Rudisha's 'gun to tape' world record run in London

World champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin closed her season with effortless brilliance as she clocked the fastest ever 400m hurdles time on European soil at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar on Monday (8).
The World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting saw five more world champions underscore their world-leading status with impressive victories at the Bregyo Atletikai Kozpont Center. And she wasn&rsquo;t the only world champion to deliver in the speed stakes, as Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran the second fastest 100m of the year.
On an evening where eight meeting records were broken, the capacity Hungarian crowd was given an appetiser of what&rsquo;s to come at next year&rsquo;s World Championships in Budapest.&nbsp;
There was huge anticipation around McLaughlin&rsquo;s first appearance since her astonishing performance at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 and she didn&rsquo;t disappoint. Running strong from the gun, she held perfect form throughout to clock 51.68, a meeting record by more than a second and the sixth fastest time ever.
&ldquo;I just wanted to go out there and execute and have a clean race,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I had a little bit of a break coming off the worlds. But it felt like a good race and I am really happy with the time. We are excited to be here (in Hungary) and scouting out everything ahead of the worlds next year.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Jamaican duo Janieve Russell and Rushell Clayton were second and third in 54.14 and 54.45. 
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 Three days after running a world-leading 10.66 at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, 10-time world gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce laid down the second fastest time of the year with a searing 10.67. She left a world-class field in her slipstream, headed by teenager Tamari Davis of USA and Switzerland&rsquo;s Mujinga Kambundji in 10.92 and 10.99 respectively.
&ldquo;It was one of those days where I wasn&rsquo;t feeling too well, but I just wanted to execute and have a good run,&rdquo; said Fraser-Pryce after her record fifth sub-10.7 performance of the year. &ldquo;I definitely have more to give. I just need to watch the races and work at it a little more. But it definitely feels good to hit 10.6 consistently throughout the year.&rdquo;
Expectations are always enormous on Mondo Duplantis and the world record-holder wasn&rsquo;t quite able to replicate his top form on this occasion. But he still had enough in hand to win the men&rsquo;s pole vault with a meeting record of 5.80m before three failures at 6.01m. Former world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie was second with 5.70m and French teammate Thibaut Collet third in 5.60m.
The throws threw up some fascinating clashes. In the men&rsquo;s discus, it brought the first match up between newly-crowned world champion Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia and Olympic champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden.&nbsp;
Ceh laid out his stall right from the first round, crashing a throw of 71.23m, his second farthest throw ever. He followed up with another 70-metre plus throw of 70.35m in the second round to underscore his dominance. Stahl&rsquo;s best was 67.01m for third with Lithuania&rsquo;s 2017 world champion Andrius Gudzius second with 67.39m.
The men&rsquo;s hammer cranked into life in the fourth round when five-time world champion Pawel Fajdek unleashed a throw of 79.15m. The response was immediate. Local hero and 2019 world bronze medallist Bence Halasz thrilled the home crowd with 79.44m.&nbsp;
But then Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki of Poland had the final word, landing a competition-winning 79.96m. And that&rsquo;s how the top three remained to the end of the competition.
In the women&rsquo;s event Brooke Andersen was another world champion stamping her authority. With victory already secured, she released her best throw of 74.84m in the final round. US teammat and world bronze medallist Janee&rsquo; Kassanavoid was second with 72.58m and Katrine Koch Jacobsen of Denmark third with 70.13m.
In the men&rsquo;s shot, world silver medallist Joe Kovacs channelled his Hungarian heritage to equal his season&rsquo;s best of 22.89m, smashing the meeting record. Competing in the nation of his grandfather&rsquo;s birth, he was a popular competitor for the home crowd and landed a 22.87m final-round flourish to underline his win.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I actually had 12 family members who came here to watch me today, we are going to go out to dinner tonight,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s probably been 15 years since I have seen them. It was really cool to see them in person again.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was a really good day; I am ready to throw 23. We still have three Diamond League meets left, so hopefully at one of them, I&rsquo;ll get over that 23 mark. Today I was on.&rdquo;&nbsp;
With an eye on some upcoming competitions with world champion Ryan Crouser, Kovacs said: &ldquo;Right now I think it would be a really good match-up between us. At worlds he was only a few centimetres away. So, I think he and I are going to duke it out for the rest of the season.&rdquo; 
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 In the 200m races, 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton gave another exhibition in raw talent in the men&rsquo;s race, winning in a meeting record of 19.88 from Canada&rsquo;s Aaron Brown and Alexander Ogando of Dominican Republic in 20.24 and 20.38.&nbsp;
World champion Shericka Jackson put in another superb run in the women&rsquo;s 200m, winning in 22.02 from Switzerland&rsquo;s Mujinga Kambundji and USA&rsquo;s Kayla White, who logged 22.45 and 22.46.&nbsp;
Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn showed her class in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles, powering through to win in a wind-assisted 12.27. Early leader Kendra Harrison was second in 12.49 and her US teammate Nia Ali third in 12.60.&nbsp; 
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 Jamaica&rsquo;s Rasheed Broadbell followed up his Commonwealth Games gold medal winning performance by beating world champion Grant Holloway in the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles.&nbsp;
Holloway had led from the gun, but he faltered at the penultimate hurdle. Broadbell held his composure to win in a photo finish in 13.12. Holloway clocked the same time, with Daniel Roberts a further 0.01 back.
World silver medallist Marvin Bracy-Williams got the better of world bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell in the men&rsquo;s 100m, reversing the result from the Diamond League meeting in Silesia three days prior. Bracey won in 9.97 to Bromell&rsquo;s 10.01. Elijah Hall made it a US 1-2-3, also clocking 10.01.&nbsp;&nbsp;
In the 400m, Vernon Norwood of USA held off world 400m hurdles champion Alison Dos Santos winning in 44.96 to the Brazilian&rsquo;s 45.11. USA&rsquo;s Michael Cherry was third in 45.42.
In the women&rsquo;s 800m, Ethiopian Diribe Welteji followed up her victory over 1500m at the Diamond League in Silesia with another win. With the pack going through the bell at 58.25, she took over with 300m to go and was never threatened. She strode to a meeting record of 1:59.33 ahead of Benin&rsquo;s Noelie Yarigo and USA&rsquo;s Brooke Feldmeier, who clocked 2:01.00 and 2:01.44 respectively.
In the men&rsquo;s two-lap race, Nicholas Kiplangat Kebenei of Kenya kicked past Ireland&rsquo;s John Fitzsimmons and Isaiah Jewett of USA off the final turn to win in 1:45.49. Fitzsimmons and Jewett shared a finish time of 1:45.70 with the Irishman just getting the verdict on the photo finish.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Elsewhere, Italy&rsquo;s Olympic god medallist Gianmarco Tamberi was a crowd-pleasing winner of the men&rsquo;s high jump with 2.24m. Milica Gardasevic of Serbia set a lifetime best of 6.83m to win the women&rsquo;s long jump, while a first-round throw of 61.99m was enough for Yulenmis Aguilar to win the javelin.
Chris Broadbent for World Athletics

World champion was one of eight athletes to set a meeting record at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial

McLaughlin sets European all-comers’ record of 51.68 in Szekesfehervar

Over the past decade, the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco has established a reputation as the best place in the world in which to attempt a middle distance world record.
In that time, four of those records have fallen at Herculis EBS meeting. Ethiopia&rsquo;s Genzebe Dibaba established a world 1500m record of 3:50.07 in 2015 and Kenya&rsquo;s Beatrice Chepkoech sparked a series of world record-breaking performances in the Stade Louis II stadium when she demolished the 3000m steeplechase world record there in 2018.
Olympic gold medallist Sifan Hassan then cracked the mile record in 2019 and fellow Olympic champion Joshua Cheptegei improved the 5000m record in 2020.
Last year, world and Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon came closest to extending that streak when she set her personal best time, a Kenyan record of 3:51.07, the fourth fastest time in history, and just one second outside Dibaba&rsquo;s mark.
Kipyegon returns this year, having dominated the World Championships final in Oregon to win her second world title. And with two 3:52 clockings already to her name this year, if she maintains such supreme form, the 1500m record will surely be in danger again this week.
She will have a strong field to help her to a fast time, with another five sub-four-minute runners in attendance, including the Ethiopian pair of Hirut Meshesha (the winner in Rabat and Rome) and Axumawit Embaye.
Kipyegon is one of 12 newly-minted world champions on the starting lists for Monaco, and elsewhere the focus will be more on racing rather than records.
In the women&rsquo;s 100m and the men&rsquo;s 200m and 1000m, world champions will collide.
The Jamaican pair of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson will extend their rivalry in Monaco, fresh from respective victories in the 100m and 200m in Silesia at the weekend, where world champion Fraser-Pryce set a world-leading time of 10.66 to win the short sprint. 
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Murielle Ahoure beats Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in Monaco (&copy; Philippe Fitte)
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 Jackson is racing in Monaco for the first time and knows that facing Fraser-Pryce in the shorter event will always spur her on.
"I love competing with Shelly. She brings out the best of me, when we are competing in the 100m," the Olympic 100m bronze medallist said at the pre-event press conference. "She always brings her 'A' game. I&rsquo;m looking for super exciting times tomorrow."
World 400m champion Michael Norman will step down in distance to take on two-time world champion Noah Lyles in a stacked 200m field, which includes the top five men from the World Championships final last month and seven sub-20 second sprinters, among them the world silver medallist Kenny Bednarek and the US wunderkind Erriyon Knighton. It&rsquo;s the sort of line-up that might bring out an even faster time than Lyles&rsquo; 19.31 to win the world title &ndash; the fourth-fastest performance in history.
"I talked a little about my plans after World Championships in the press conference in Oregon," said Lyles. "I was telling people how I didn&rsquo;t think that my peak was going to show at Worlds. I&rsquo;ve been saying, give me a month and the world record will be in my sights'.
"Every time I step on the track now is to get closer and closer to the world record."
The last time Lyles and Norman met in the 200m was at the Rome Diamond League in 2019, Norman winning in 19.70 to Lyles' 19.72.
"This rivalry - this is the guy that I don&rsquo;t get to see often, that everybody wants to see me go up against," explained Lyles.&nbsp;
Norman added: "On this pro level, we&rsquo;re relighting this fire, this rivalry. I think it&rsquo;s really exciting and great for the sport.
"I know I&rsquo;m in the best shape of my life in terms of pure strength but I haven&rsquo;t sprinted (the 200m) since April. I&rsquo;m excited to come out here and finally sprint and let loose, because I feel like I have been holding back all year."
World 800m champion Emmanuel Korir and world 1500m champion Jake Wightman will meet in the middle over 1000m to decide some bragging rights, along with new Commonwealth 800m champion Wycliffe Kinyamal and world bronze medallist Marco Arop.
The men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles will feature a clash between the dual world champion Grant Holloway, silver medallist Trey Cunningham, Olympic champion Hansle Parchment, US champion Daniel Roberts, and world U20 record-holder Sasha Zhoya, who is still finding his way in the senior event.
Sitting alongside&nbsp;Parchment in the pre-event press conference, Holloway said: "I grew up watching him, one of my idols. It comes down to: what can I take out of his game, and throw it into my game?
"He has paved the way and it&rsquo;s up to me to repave it and make it even better for the next person that&rsquo;s coming up." 
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110m hurdles winner Grant Holloway at the adidas Boost Boston Games (&copy; Getty Images)
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 Other world champions on the track in Monaco include two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, in an intriguing match-up with USA&rsquo;s Olympic 200m bronze medallist Gabby Thomas and the new Commonwealth Games champion Sada Williams over one lap.
Olympic bronze medallist Raevyn Rogers heads the women&rsquo;s 800m field, while Olympic champion Peruth Chematai will face a tough test in the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase, with world bronze medallist Mekides Abebe and new Commonwealth Games champion Jackline Chepkoech on the starting line.
In the men&rsquo;s 3000m, world 5000m silver medallist Jacob Krop looks a likely favourite in a big field with a range of contenders including world leader Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu of South Sudan and last year&rsquo;s Diamond League final winner Berihu Aregawi.
The field events will feature world triple jump champion and record-holder Yulimar Rojas, world high jump champion Mutaz Barshim, and world javelin champion Kelsey-Lee Barber. 
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Mutaz Essa Barshim at the 2016 Diamond League meeting in Lausanne (&copy; Gladys von der Laage)
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 Despite the presence of the full medal podium from Oregon in the women&rsquo;s triple jump, Rojas will start as the raging favourite to extend her years-long winning streak, given her dominance of this event.
The men&rsquo;s high jump has yet to catch fire this year but the field assembled in Monaco &ndash; which includes the top six from Oregon &ndash; could finally ignite the event, as Barshim renews his rivalry with fellow Olympic gold medallist Gianmarco Tamberi and fellow world medallists Woo Sanghyeok and Andriy Protsenko.
Tamberi has recently had covid, but will be using the event as part of his preparations for the European Championships in Munich.&nbsp;
"It&rsquo;s very important for me tomorrow to jump and prove to myself that I am ready for Europeans," he said. "To go out there and compete is the only thing I can do, to push myself and get some confidence."
Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou heads the field for the men&rsquo;s long jump in what could be a preview of next week&rsquo;s European Championships, with Sweden&rsquo;s Thobias Montler also in the field, as well as Cuba&rsquo;s Maykel Masso, USA&rsquo;s Steffin McCarter and Marquis Dendy and India&rsquo;s Commonwealth Games silver medallist Murali Sreeshankar. World U20 champion Erwan Konate will take on the big boys after winning his second consecutive global junior title in Cali last week.
In the only throwing event on the programme, Australia&rsquo;s Barber will be primed to put on a show after injury ruled her out of the Monaco meeting last year. She arrives with both the world title and the Commonwealth Games title in the bag, for a rematch with her fellow medallists from Oregon, Kara Winger and Haruka Kitaguchi, a last-round winner in Silesia at the weekend. Barber&rsquo;s compatriot Mackenzie Little is also a threat after throwing a personal best of 64.27m for the silver medal in Birmingham on Sunday.
Nicole Jeffery for World Athletics

Twelve world champions will be in action at the Herculis EBS meeting

Kipyegon, Rojas and Lyles among dozen world champions in Monaco

World champion Tobi Amusan and world indoor champion Jereem Richards had a successful Sunday (7) on the final day of athletics action at the Commonwealth Games, as they joined Elaine Thompson-Herah and Jacob Kiplimo as double gold medallists in Birmingham.
The Nigerian sprint hurdler started the day by winning her specialist discipline, the 100m hurdles, in a Games record of 12.30 (-0.2m/s) &ndash; the second-fastest wind-legal clocking of her career behind the world record of 12.12 she clocked at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
She won by a clear margin from Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas (12.58) and England&rsquo;s Cindy Sember (12.59), all of whom finished inside the previous Games record.
&ldquo;I think my first five hurdles were rusty but then I got it together,&rdquo; said Amusan. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just thankful for the win.&rdquo;
Later in the morning session, Amusan ran the lead-off leg for Nigeria in the 4x100m. She gave her team a strong start and handed over to 200m silver medallist Favour Ofili, who kept Nigeria level with England&rsquo;s Imani Lansiquot. Rosemary Chukwuma than ran a storming third leg to give Nigeria a clear lead, then Grace Nwokocha anchored them to victory in 42.10, taking 0.12 off the African record they had set when finishing fourth at the recent World Championships.
England finished second in 42.41 and Jamaica, anchored by double sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, took bronze in 43.08.
Much to the delight of the home crowd, England took victory in the men&rsquo;s 4x100m just moments before the women&rsquo;s race. They won in 38.35 from Trinidad &amp; Tobago (38.70) and Nigeria (38.81).
Later in the day, Commonwealth 200m champion Jereem Richards added another gold medal to his collection, anchoring Trinidad &amp; Tobago to victory in the men&rsquo;s 4x400m. The world indoor 400m champion teamed up with Dwight St Hillaire, Asa Guevara and Machel Cedenio to win in 3:01.29 with Botswana finishing second in 3:01.85. Kenya placed third in 3:02.41.
The women&rsquo;s race was much closer with hosts England crossing the line in first place 0.01 ahead of Canada. But England was later disqualified for a lane infringement, giving Canada gold in 3:25.84 ahead of Jamaica (3:26.93). Scotland took the bronze medal.
<h2>Brume, Nadeem and Williams break Games records</h2>
Eight years after winning Commonwealth gold as an 18-year-old &ndash; her first senior international medal &ndash; Nigeria&rsquo;s Ese Brume regained her title in style, breaking the Games record in the process.
Ghana&rsquo;s Deborah Acquah took an early lead with 6.94m, breaking her own national record, but Brume responded in the second round to take the lead with 6.99m, breaking the Games record. The world silver medallist remained in the lead, but Australia&rsquo;s Brooke Buschkuehl came close with 6.92m in round three and 6.95m in round five.
Brume, as consistent in her series as she is at major championships, matched her leading jump of 6.99m in round four, followed it with 6.96m in round five and then &ndash; her victory by now guaranteed &ndash; wrapped up her competition with a Games record of 7.00m in round six.
The men&rsquo;s javelin was similarly competitive and thrilling, as it too resulted in the Games record being broken.
Pakistan&rsquo;s Arshad Nadeem set the tone with his opening effort of 86.81m. Two-time world champion Anderson Peters started with 82.30m while 2015 world champion Julius Yego threw 85.70m &ndash; a mark that would remain his best of the day. 
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Arshad Nadeem in the javelin at the Commonwealth Games (&copy; Getty Images)
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 Nadeem, however, was just getting started and he sent his spear out to 88.00m in round three, breaking his own national record. Peters responded in the fifth round with 88.64m to take the lead, but he stayed in that position for just a matter of minutes as Nadeem hit back with a Games record of 90.18m in round five. Peters was unable to throw farther with his final throw, meaning Nadeem earned Pakistan&rsquo;s first Commonwealth Games title in athletics for 60 years.
Peters&rsquo; fellow two-time world javelin champion Kelsey-Lee Barber fared slightly better earlier in the day as she struck gold in her final, joining Amusan as the only two world champions to win individual gold in Birmingham.
But, like in Oregon, the Australian was made to work for victory. Teammate Mackenzie Little led from the first round, setting a PB of 64.03m. Barber opened with a solid 63.52m but continued to trail her compatriot. Little increased her lead with a 64.27m PB in round five, but Barber kept her composure and unleashed a best of 64.43m with her final throw of the competition, just as she had done when winning world gold in 2019 and Olympic silver in 2021.
Sada Williams of Barbados also broke a Games record on Sunday. The world bronze medallist kicked hard with 200 metres to go and could not be caught, winning in 49.90 &ndash; just 0.15 shy of the national record she set in Oregon. England&rsquo;s Victoria Ohuruogu, younger sister of 2008 Olympic champion Christine, took silver in a PB of 50.72 while Olympic finalist Jodie Williams clocked 51.26 for bronze.
Zambian teenager Muzala Samukonga produced an equally stunning second half to take a surprise gold medal in the men&rsquo;s 400m, beating world bronze medallist Matt Hudson-Smith. Samukonga was in fifth place with 150 metres to go, but closed rapidly on Hudson-Smith, Kenya&rsquo;s Boniface Mweresa and Jonathan Jones of Barbados and overtook them in the closing stages to win in 44.66.
His winning time broke the Zambian record that had stood to Samuel Matete since 1991. Matete was also the last Zambian athlete to win a Commonwealth title, winning the 400m hurdles in 1994.
Olympic 50km race walk bronze medallist Evan Dunfee stepped down in distance to win the men&rsquo;s 10,000m race walk. A lead pack of five formed after the first few kilometres and India&rsquo;s Sandeep Kumar led the group through half way in 19:23.53. Soon after, Australia&rsquo;s Declan Tingay made a break and opened up a gap of five seconds on Dunfee with the rest of the lead pack trailing further back. But Dunfee clawed back the deficit and kicked hard on the final lap to win in 38:36.37, breaking his own Canadian record. Tingay held on for silver in 38:42.33 and Kumar earned bronze in 38:49.21.
African champion Beatrice Chebet also timed her kick well to win the women&rsquo;s 5000m. The world silver medallist from Kenya let 10,000m champion Eilish McColgan do most of the leading as the Scot passed through 3000m in 8:53.24. Chebet&rsquo;s teammate Selah Busienei also formed part of the lead trio for much of the race, but once Chebet started to kick with 200 metres remaining, the 22-year-old was away and gone, winning in a season&rsquo;s best of 14:38.21. McColgan held on to take silver in 14:42.14 and Busienei took bronze in 14:48.24.
Like Scottish teammate McColgan, Laura Muir picked up her second medal of the Games in winning the 1500m. The world and Olympic medallist, who had finished third over 800m just 24 hours prior, dictated the pace in the second half of the race and kicked away to win in 4:02.75. Ciara Mageean, representing Northern Ireland, took silver in a season&rsquo;s best of 4:04.14 with Australian champion Abbey Caldwell earning bronze in 4:04.79.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Amusan's 12.30 one of several Games record on the final day of athletics action in Birmingham

Amusan and Richards join list of double champions at Commonwealth Games

The 2022 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series resumes on Monday (8) with the&nbsp;Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar.
With just over one year to go until the World Athletics Championships take place in Hungary for the first time, <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/news/szekesfehervar-gyulai-memorial-mclaughlin-duplantis-fraser-pryce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a galaxy of global stars are set to light up the one-day meeting</a> in Szekesfehervar.
Here&rsquo;s how you can follow all the action.
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<h2>Follow and watch the Istvan Gyulai Memorial</h2>
<a href="https://gyulaimemorial.hu/en/timetable/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timetable</a>&nbsp;
A two-hour live stream of the meeting, on Monday 8 August, will be available in a number of territories via the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/worldathletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics YouTube channel</a>, beginning at 17:15 CEST (15:15 GMT). 
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 The YouTube stream will be geoblocked in the following territories:
Angola, Anguilla, Antigua &amp; Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cura&ccedil;ao, Czechia, C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, St Barth&eacute;lemy, St Kitts &amp; Nevis, St Lucia, St Martin, St Vincent &amp; the Grenadines, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, S&atilde;o Tom&eacute; &amp; Pr&iacute;ncipe, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad &amp; Tobago, Turkey, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lithuania 
Coverage of the meeting will be available in the territories listed below. Be sure to check local listings - some broadcasts may be live while others will consist of highlights.
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<h2>Social&nbsp;media</h2>
- World Athletics:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/worldathletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> - Continental Tour Gold:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ContiTourGold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ContiTourGold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/contitourgold/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> - Istvan Gyulai Memorial: <a href="https://gyulaimemorial.hu/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/gyulaimemorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gyulaimemorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/gyulaimemorial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>
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The 2022 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series resumes on Monday (8) with the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar

How to follow and watch the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Szekesfehervar

With just over one year to go until the World Athletics Championships take place in Hungary for the first time, a galaxy of global stars are set to light up the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar on Monday (8).
The latest World Continental Tour Gold meeting will offer a tantalising glimpse for athletes and spectators alike on what next year&rsquo;s showpiece event in nearby Budapest will bring.
In a line-up already teeming with the sport&rsquo;s biggest names, USA&rsquo;s 400m hurdles record-breaker Sydney McLaughlin was a late addition this week, bringing the number of gold medallists from the recent World Athletics Championships Oregon22 appearing at the meeting to 13.
There will be huge interest on McLaughlin &ndash; who turns 23 on Sunday, the day before the competition &ndash; in her first outing since her astonishing world record of 50.68 to win in Eugene. Fresh from winning Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham, Jamaica&rsquo;s Janieve Russell is among her opposition.
Another trailblazing athlete set to compete is pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis. The world and Olympic champion continues his competitive campaign off the back of breaking the world record in Eugene as he builds towards the European Championships in Munich. World silver and bronze medallists Christopher Nilsen of the USA and Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines will also take to the runway in Szekesfehervar.
After setting a world-leading time of 10.66 at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Selesia on Saturday, 10-times world gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce shows no signs of applying the brakes to her season. The jet-heeled Jamaican has world indoor champion Mujinga Kambundji and US duo Twanisha Terry and Tamari Davis &ndash; the second-fastest U20 athlete in history &ndash; among her opposition.
Fraser-Pryce&rsquo;s teammate and fellow speed queen Shericka Jackson will be looking to harden her grip as the dominant 200m runner of the moment.&nbsp; Olympic bronze medallist Gabrielle Thomas is also in the line-up along with USA&rsquo;s World Championships representatives Tamara Clark and Jenna Prandini.
There is an intriguing line up for the men&rsquo;s 400m. World 400m hurdles champion Alison Dos Santos is a man in supreme form and confidence, and fresh off another victory at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, the Brazilian will test his speed on the flat against some formidable opposition, including Olympic fourth-place finisher Michael Cherry and World Championships fourth-place finisher Champion Allison, both of the USA.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
In the field, the men&rsquo;s discus provides an exciting match-up with newly crowned world champion Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia going up against Olympic champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden. Olympic silver medallist Simon Pettersson, who set a PB of 70.42m at the Swedish Championships on Saturday, is also in the field, meaning three members of the exclusive 70-metre club will be in attendance.
The men&rsquo;s hammer offers up another clash of the champions with five-time world champion Pawel Fajdek going up against fellow Pole and Olympic gold medallist Wojciech Nowicki. Olympic silver medallist and world bronze medallist Eivind Henriksen of Norway will once again try to get the better of the Polish duo.
In the women&rsquo;s hammer, world champion Brooke Andersen of the USA has to face the challenge of world bronze medallist Janee&rsquo; Kassanavoid and Olympic bronze medallist Malwina Kopron of Poland.
In the sprint hurdles, two-time world champion Grant Holloway of the USA and Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico head the line-ups in the men&rsquo;s 110m and women&rsquo;s 100m events respectively. Holloway will take on newly crowned Commonwealth champion Rasheed Broadbell, while Camacho-Quinn faces former world record-holder Kendra Harrison and 2019 world champion Nia Ali.
In the men&rsquo;s short sprints, USA&rsquo;s world silver and bronze medallists Trayvon Bromell and Marvin Bracy-Williams have past world champions Christian Coleman and Yohan Blake and three-time meeting winner Akani Simbine among their opposition in the 100m. In the 200m, meanwhile, Olympic and world silver medallist Kenny Bednarek and world bronze medallist Erryion Knighton will start as favourites.
Another top-quality line up is the men&rsquo;s shot put, featuring recent world silver and bronze medallists Joe Kovacs and Josh Awotunde, plus 2017 world champion Tom Walsh of New Zealand. Croatia&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic champion Sara Kolak heads the line up in the women&rsquo;s javelin. She&rsquo;ll face Cuban champion Yulenmis Aguilar and European U20 champion Elina Tzengko.
In the jumps, Olympic champion Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy is a star attraction in the men&rsquo;s high jump, while 2017 European U20 champion Milica Gardasevic of Serbia and Agate de Sousa of Sao Tome and Principe are the leading contenders in the women&rsquo;s long jump.
In the women&rsquo;s 800m, Ethiopia&rsquo;s Diribe Welteji returns to her usual distance after an impressive victory over 1500m at the Diamond League meeting in Silesia. And in the men&rsquo;s two-lap event, the home crowd will be hoping for a breakthrough for Hungary&rsquo;s former hurdles specialist Daniel Huller.
The action gets underway at 12:45 local time at the meeting named in honour of Hungary&rsquo;s much respected former sprinter, commentator and athletics official.
Chris Broadbent for World Athletics

Numerous newly-crowned world champions will be in action at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial

McLaughlin and Duplantis among multitude of world champions heading to Szekesfehervar

The&nbsp;World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22&nbsp;has been celebrated as one of the most successful editions in the history of the event as magnificent medal moments and record-breaking results showcased the future stars of the sport.
Over six days of competition between 1-6 August, two world U20 records, two world U20 best performances, 14 championship records, nine area U20 records, 10 senior national records, 97 national U20 records and 518 personal bests were achieved in the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium, securing the latest edition of the global showpiece its place in the history books.
USA topped the medal table with seven gold, four silver and four bronze medals, ahead of Jamaica (6, 7, 3), Ethiopia (6, 5, 1), Kenya (3, 3, 4) and South Africa (2, 1, 2).
The event in Cali was also a championships of &lsquo;firsts&rsquo;, with Uruguay winning its first ever medal, and Dominica, Malaysia and Saint Vincent achieving their first ever top eight positions.
Demonstrating the truly global reach of the sport, 1387 athletes took part from 126 different countries. Their participation pushed the World Athletics U20 Championships past the 20,000 milestone in terms of the number of athletes who have competed since the first edition in 1986.
&ldquo;I hope you all agree that the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22 has been a spectacular success,&rdquo; World Athletics&rsquo; Chief Executive Jon Ridgeon said at the closing press conference. &ldquo;I think we can say that Cali has once again emerged as the &lsquo;cradle of champions&rsquo;, much like the World U18 Championships that we enjoyed in this very stadium back in 2015.&rdquo;
Ramiro Varela, President of the local organising committee, said: &ldquo;The success of the championships is a three-way affair: World Athletics, Colombia and Valle Del Cauca. The success was because of the presence of the athletes, their teams and their incredible results. And the success is the result of long-term planning and the hard work of a team of professionals who have worked tirelessly to offer these championships to the world.&rdquo;
Two of the stars to emerge were Botswana&rsquo;s Letsile Tebogo, who retained his 100m title in a world U20 record and claimed 200m silver in a brilliant battle with Israel&rsquo;s Blessing Akawasi Afrifah, and Colombia&rsquo;s Valentina Barrios, who secured silver for the host nation in the javelin.
&ldquo;I would like to thank you for hosting us. I am really satisfied with everything I have done in these championships,&rdquo; said Tebogo, who ran a world U20 record of 9.91 in the 100m. &ldquo;Of the memories I have from Cali, the 100m final is the one to take back home with me, and also the 200m final.&rdquo;
Barrios said the U20 championships was a huge stepping stone in her career.
&ldquo;I was extremely nervous during the qualification round,&rsquo;&rsquo; she said. &ldquo;I felt a little better during the final, but it was still difficult for me to deal with the pressure. But then I told myself: &lsquo;I am here in Colombia, competing in front of my people. I cannot let this opportunity go.&rsquo; I was able to refocus and perform well, and this is something that will help me when I turn senior.&rdquo;
In just two years&rsquo; time, the World Athletics U20 Championships will return to South America, when Lima, Peru, hosts the event between 20-25 August 2024. 
<h2>The World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22 in numbers</h2>
 RECORDS SET
2 world U20 records: Letsile Tebogo (BOT) in the men&rsquo;s 100m final - 9.91; Jamaica in the women&rsquo;s 4x100m final - 42.59
2 world U20 best performances: United States in the mixed 4x400m heats - 3:18.65; United States in the mixed 4x400m final - 3:17.69
14 championship records: Tina Clayton (JAM) in the women&rsquo;s 100m final - 10.95, Letsile Tebogo (BOT) in the men&rsquo;s 100m heats - 10.00; Letsile Tebogo (BOT) in the men&rsquo;s 100m final - 9.91; Letsile Tebogo (BOT) in the men&rsquo;s 200m heats - 19.99; Blessing Akwasi Afrifah (ISR) and Letsile Tebogo (BOT) in the men&rsquo;s 200m final - 19.96; Roisin Willis (USA) in the women&rsquo;s 800m final - 1:59.13; Birke Haylom (ETH) in the women&rsquo;s 1500m final - 4:04.27; Kerrica Hill (JAM) in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles final - 12.77; Jaydon Hibbert (JAM) in the men&rsquo;s triple jump final - 17.27m; Adriana Vilagos (SRB) in the women&rsquo;s javelin final - 63.52m; Jamaica in the women&rsquo;s 4x100m final - 42.59; United States in the mixed 4x400m heats - 3:18.65; United States in the mixed 4x400m final - 3:17.69
9 area U20 records: Letsile Tebogo (Africa) in the men&rsquo;s 100m heats - 9.91; Letsile Tebogo (Africa) in the men&rsquo;s 200m heats - 19.99; Blessing Akwasi Afrifah (Europe) and Letsile Tebogo (Africa) in the men&rsquo;s 200m final - 19.96; Adriana Vilagos (Europe) in the women&rsquo;s javelin final - 63.52m; India (Asia) in the mixed 4x400m heats - 3:19.62; United States (NACAC) in the mixed 4x400m heats - 3:18.65; India (Asia) in the mixed 4x400m final - 3:17.76; United States (NACAC) in the mixed 4x400m final - 3:17.69
10 national senior records
97 national U20 records
14 world U20-leading performances
518 personal bests 
MEDALS AND PLACINGS
41 countries won medals
24 countries won gold medals
23 countries won silver medals
29 countries won bronze medals
70 countries finished in the top eight (point scoring position)
Uruguay won its first ever medal (bronze)
Dominica, Malaysia and Saint Vincent achieved their first ever top eight positions 
PARTICIPATION
1387 athletes from 126 different countries
735 male and 652 female athletes
18 years, 6 months and 18 days is the average age of participants 
SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT
15 million video views
1.5 million engagements
130,000 growth in followers across social channels
1 million followers reached on YouTube
2 million followers reached on Instagram
9.4 million overall fanbase
43 students and journalists from across the Americas were involved in World Athletics&rsquo; media development programme - six days of information sessions covering topics including media operations, story-telling, social media, competition rules and the use of statistics in our sport.
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World Athletics U20 Championships

The World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22 has been celebrated as one of the most successful editions in the history of the event

World U20 Championships celebrated as Cali confirms status as a 'cradle of champions'

<h2>Are you concerned about climate change but not sure how to best express your concern?</h2>
<h2>Do you want to help make a difference and inspire change but not sure where to start?</h2>
If so, World Athletics would like to invite you to participate in &lsquo;Rock Your Cause&rsquo;, workshops on climate change communication that we're organising around the following meets:
&bull; Birmingham Diamond League (May 20, the day before, time tbc) &bull; Turku Continental Tour (June 13, the day before, time tbc) &bull; Monaco Diamond League (Aug 9, the day before, 7pm) &bull; Zurich Diamond League (Sep 7, the first day, time tbc)
The aim of the workshops is to help athletes identify the most effective ways to speak confidently about the issues they care about most.&nbsp;
<h3>Monaco details:</h3>
&bull; Date: Tuesday August 9th &bull; Place: Hotel Riviera Marriott (Meet Hotel), Saint Tropez Meeting Room&nbsp; &bull; Time: 7pm
The workshops will be conducted by Dr Madeleine Orr and Dr Daniel Sailofsky, noted academics and communicators in the sport and sustainability space and experts on climate change communication.&nbsp;
The workshops will last one hour and will be scheduled to not interfere with your pre-meet routine.&nbsp; Space is limited &ndash; if interested please RSVP to <a href="mailto:sustainability@worldathletics.org">sustainability@worldathletics.org</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
If the start time conflicts with a training session or your travel schedule, let us know. We'll try to organise small group sessions either prior to or after the main workshop. Let us know what time works best for you.
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Workshops around climate change communications aimed to help athletes identify the most effective ways to speak confidently about the issues they care about most.

World Athletics Climate Change Communications Workshops

And there we have it: six superb days, almost 1500 of the world&rsquo;s best teenage athletes, 136 medals handed out &ndash; and one bright future for the sport.&nbsp;
The final day of action at the&nbsp;World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22&nbsp;on Sunday (6) saw a plethora of precocious youngsters again light up the track at the&nbsp;Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium, and in a programme littered with middle- and long-distance races, one nation shone brightest of all.&nbsp;
Ethiopia won four gold medals in the space of 65 minutes, taking victory in the women&rsquo;s 1500m, men&rsquo;s 800m, women&rsquo;s 5000m and men&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase, while the standout individual performer of the day was undoubtedly Jamaica&rsquo;s Kerrica Hill, who powered to gold in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles in a championship record of 12.77 (0.2m/s). 
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 After Tina Clayton&rsquo;s 100m victory, Brianna Lyston&rsquo;s 200m win and Friday night&rsquo;s world U20 4x100m record for Jamaica, it was proof that the sprint superpower is replete with a rising generation of star female sprinters capable of carrying the baton once Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah have stepped aside.&nbsp;
Hill, a student at Hydel High School, produced a near-flawless performance to smash her personal best with 12.77, moving fifth on the world U20 all-time list. She was followed home by teammate Alexis James, who set a PB of 12.87 to put previous injuries to her &ldquo;toe, hamstring, shin, knee, shoulder and back&rdquo; firmly in the rear-view mirror. Hungary&rsquo;s Anna Toth claimed bronze in a national U20 record of 13.00, which left her &ldquo;so happy and shocked.&rdquo;
The feeling was much the same for Hill, who had run the third leg on Jamaica&rsquo;s world-record-setting 4x100m team on Friday night. &ldquo;I did not expect a championship record, I expected some record but I was just focused on winning,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;My success last night was inspiring because it helped me come out here and do my very best."
The women&rsquo;s 1500m final marked the start of an astonishing spell of track dominance by Ethiopian athletes, with Birke Haylom announcing herself as a potential senior star by taking gold in a championship record of 4:04.27, with Kenyans Brenda Chebet and Purity Chepkirui &ndash; the defending champion &ndash; following her home in respective PBs of 4:04.64 and 4:07.64.&nbsp;
The pace was a swift one from the start, with Chebet taking them through 800m in 2:09.76, then leading Chepkirui through 1200m in 3:19.34. But at that point Haylom started changing gears, moving from fourth to first up the back straight. She struck for home around the last bend and built an advantage of several metres, but Chebet came again in the home straight, forcing Haylom to dig deep to hold her at bay. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the first time winning a medal for my country,&rdquo; said Haylom. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a huge honour for me.&rdquo; 
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 In the men&rsquo;s 800m, Ermias Girma closed out a great week by avenging his defeat in the 1500m, powering to victory in 1:47.36 ahead of the fast-finishing Algerian Heithem Chenitef who clocked a PB of 1:47.61 in second. Britain&rsquo;s Ethan Hussey took bronze with 1:47.65, just ahead of Poland&rsquo;s Kacper Lewalski (1:47.84).&nbsp;
The early pace was a steady one, with Girma&rsquo;s compatriot&nbsp;Mersimoi&nbsp;Kasahun taking the field through the first lap in 54.96. Kenya&rsquo;s Noah Kibet launched his big attack with 250 metres to run, briefly hitting the front as they hit 600m in 1:21.53, but it was a move Girma was well able to respond to, the 17-year-old kicking it into gear around the final turn and pulling clear to win his first global title. Kibet paid for his effort and faded to seventh in 1:48.50.
Ethiopia was even more dominant in the women&rsquo;s 5000m, where the only doubt down the home straight was which of their athletes &ndash; Medina Eisa or Melknat Wudu &ndash; would strike gold. In the end Eisa proved the stronger, clocking 15:29.71 to edge Wudu (15:30.06), with Uganda&rsquo;s Prisca Chesang taking bronze in 15:31.17. Latvia&rsquo;s Agate Caune was fourth in a PB of 15:43.56.
Eisa said the victory was &ldquo;a really big deal&rdquo; for her while Wudu said it was a &ldquo;dream come true.&rdquo;
The men&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase also saw Ethiopia go 1-2, with Samuel Duguna sprinting clear of teammate Samuel Firewu to win in 8:37.92 to Firewu&rsquo;s 8:39.11. Morocco&rsquo;s Salaheddine Ben Yazide took bronze in 8:40.62.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I am beyond elated,&rdquo; said Duguna. &ldquo;The weather conditions made the race a bit difficult. It was a bit hot, so when the race picked up it was challenging&nbsp;but this is for my country, all the Ethiopian people.&rdquo; 
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 The race proved cagey early on, with the chief contenders allowing Japan&rsquo;s Asahi Kuroda to build a sizable lead. It was only in the last four laps that the African contingent began to get serious and hunt him down, closing the gap to 20 metres as Kuroda passed 2000m in 5:49.16. Heading out on the final lap, Duguna and Firewu had control up front and the pair never relinquished it, with Duguna dropping the hammer on his teammate as he approached the final water jump and surging clear thereafter.&nbsp;
In the men&rsquo;s discus, Germany&rsquo;s Marius Karges caused an upset by winning gold with 65.55m ahead of teammate Mika Sosna (63.88m), who had set the world U20 record in June. But that 71.37m effort, as great as it was, is ultimately what cost him here in Cali.
&ldquo;On my world record throw, I injured my adductor and it still isn&rsquo;t ready yet,&rdquo; said Sosna, who only took one throw in the final due to the injury. &ldquo;I arrived as the U20 world record-holder and to bring the silver medal back is a little disappointing. (The adductor) was grabbing during the competition, it was really rough.&rdquo;
But Sosna&rsquo;s misfortune was ultimately an opportunity for Karges, who overtook Sosna in the fourth round with 63.91m and then threw 65.55m to crown his win in the final round. Ukraine&rsquo;s&nbsp;Mykhailo&nbsp;Brudin took bronze with a PB of 63.30m, while Greece&rsquo;s Dimitrios&nbsp;Pavlidis took fourth in a national U20 record of 61.77m.
The women&rsquo;s high jump saw Estonia&rsquo;s Karmen Bruus live up to her favourite&rsquo;s billing by soaring over 1.95m to take gold, with Britt Weerman taking silver in a Dutch U20 record of 1.93m and Serbia&rsquo;s Angelina Topic third, also clearing 1.93m.&nbsp; 
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High jump winner Karmen Bruus of Estonia at the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22 (&copy; Marta Gorczynska)
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Bruus endured some nervous moments after first-time failures at 1.85m and 1.93m left her trailing Topic and Weerman when the bar went up to 1.95m, and after two failures there it looked like she might have to settle for silver or bronze. But with her last attempt she nailed it.&nbsp;
&ldquo;That third attempt was a lot of pressure, but I didn&rsquo;t change anything on it, I just gave all I had,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;And that was enough.&rdquo;
The women&rsquo;s triple jump title went to Uzbekistan&rsquo;s Sharifa Davronova, the 15-year-old&rsquo;s second-round effort of 14.04m a PB and world U20 lead. France&rsquo;s Sohane Aucagos took silver with 13.38m while bronze went to Tiana Boras of Australia with a PB of 13.30m.&nbsp;
In traditional fashion, the championships ended with the 4x400m finals and, also in traditional fashion, USA dominated. Their women&rsquo;s team of Mekenze Kelley, Shawnti Jackson, Akala Garrett and Roisin Willis proved a class apart from their rivals, clocking 3:28.06 to come home well clear of Jamaica (3:31.59) and Britain (3:31.86). 
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 With both Jamaica, Ethiopia and USA all having six gold medals at that point, it meant there was more at stake than usual in the men&rsquo;s 4x400m final that wrapped up the championships.&nbsp;
That went much the same way as the women&rsquo;s race, even if the US quartet of Steven McElroy, Ashton Schwartzman, Charlie Bartholomew and Will Summer wasn&rsquo;t quite as dominant, Summer bringing them home well clear in 3:04.47, with Jamaica second in 3:05.72 and Canada taking bronze in 3:06.50.&nbsp;
It meant USA topped the medal table with seven golds and 15 medals overall, while Jamaica was second and Ethiopia third.&nbsp;
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

And there we have it: six superb days, almost 1500 of the world’s best teenage athletes, 136 medals handed out – and one bright future for the sport

Super Cali goes ballistic, athletes are precocious

Elaine Thompson-Herah is no stranger to sprint doubles. Having achieved the feat at the past two Olympic Games, the Jamaican superstar replicated the feat at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Saturday (6).
Three days after winning the 100m crown in a relatively close race, Thompson-Herah won the 200m in dominant fashion, setting a Games record of 22.02 (0.6m/s) and finishing almost half a second ahead of her nearest opponent. Nigeria&rsquo;s Favour Ofili took silver in 22.51 and Olympic silver medallist Christine Mboma earned bronze in 22.80.
Thompson-Herah had a comfortable lead before she reached the home straight, then her winning margin continued to increase as she neared the finish line.
She becomes just the fifth woman to achieve the 100m/200m double at the Commonwealth Games. She could add a third gold medal to her tally at these Games if she contests the 4x100m on Sunday.
Just half an hour before Thompson-Herah&rsquo;s triumph, Jereem Richards won his second international title of the year by taking the men&rsquo;s 200m in a Games record of 19.80.
The versatile sprinter from Trinidad &amp; Tobago, who started his 2022 campaign by winning the world indoor 400m title, stepped back down to his specialist distance to win convincingly from England&rsquo;s Zharnel Hughes (20.12). Ghana&rsquo;s Joseph Amoah was third in 20.49.
Four days after winning the 10,000m &ndash; his first major title on the track &ndash; Uganda&rsquo;s Jacob Kiplimo bagged another gold medal, this time in the 5000m. And once again, it came down to another thrilling finish.
Kiplimo bided his time for the opening kilometres as world silver medallist Jacob Krop led the field through 3000m in 8:01.68. Krop&rsquo;s Kenyan compatriot Nicholas Kimeli, the world leader, passed through 4000m in the lead in 10:41.08 as a gap started to appear between the leading three and the rest of the field.
Kimeli continued to lead for another couple of laps but couldn&rsquo;t shake the challenge of Krop and Kiplimo. Coming off the final bend, all three men kicked hard but Kiplimo proved to be the strongest, powering his way to the finish in a season&rsquo;s best of 13:08.08. Kimeli took silver in 13:08.19 and Krop finished third in 13:08.48.
Australia&rsquo;s Oliver Hoare bounced back from a disappointing semifinals exit at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 to win the men&rsquo;s 1500m, beating world champion Jake Wightman and 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruiyot. Hoare won in style, too, smashing the oldest Games record in a track event.
Cheruiyot and Kenyan teammate Abel Kipsang took turns at the front for most of the race, going through 800m in a swift 1:52.1 and 100m in 2:20.3. Wightman, representing Scotland here, moved into the lead with 200 metres to go and held pole position into the home straight. But, showing signs of fatigue, he was caught in the closing stages first by Cheruiyot and then by a fast-finishing Hoare, who charged past the two global gold medallists to cross the line in a PB of 3:30.12.
The winning time took more than two seconds off Flibert Bayi&rsquo;s Games record of 3:32.16, set at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch &ndash; a performance which was a world record at the time.
Cheruiyot was second in 3:30.21 while Wightman held on for bronze in 3:30.53. In a race of notable depth, the first six men finished inside 3:31.50 and the top 10 were all inside 3:34.0.
&ldquo;It was a very fast race but I have been training for a fast race,&rdquo; said Hoare. &ldquo;It was just about kicking at the right time. I went through on the inside with a lap to go and I saw Jake next to me, and I started to panic because he is the world champion. But I tried to hold my composure.&rdquo;
There was another middle-distance upset later in the day as world bronze medallist Mary Moraa overtook world and Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson to win the women&rsquo;s 800m.
Adopting unorthodox but ultimately effective tactics, Moraa charged through the first 200m in 25.9 but then slowed significantly once she reached the home straight, allowing Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule to lead the field through the half-way point in 56.5. With 300 metres to go, Moraa was right at the back of the eight-woman field, while Hodgkinson was on Goule&rsquo;s shoulder and soon moved into the lead.
Hodgkinson entered the straight in pole position with Goule close behind while Moraa had moved onto Laura Muir&rsquo;s shoulder and had found her second wind. Moraa regained the lead with about 35 metres remaining and went on to win in 1:57.07. Hodgkinson followed in 1:57.40 and Muir took bronze in 1:57.87, just 0.01 ahead of Goule.
It was the second gold medal of the day for Kenya, following Abraham Kibiwot&rsquo;s victory in the steeplechase during the morning session. The world and Olympic finalist triumphed in 8:11.15, holding off a strong challenge from India&rsquo;s Avinash Sable, who broke his own national record with 8:11.20.
World silver medallist Camryn Rogers dominated the hammer, though the Canadian had a nervous start to the final after opening with two fouls. She registered a valid throw in round three, though, sending her hammer out to 74.08m. That remained the best throw of the final, though she threw farther in qualifying with a Games record of 74.68m. 2018 champion Julia Ratcliffe was second with 69.63m.
In the men&rsquo;s event, Nick Miller successfully defended his title but he was made to work for it. He overcame fouls with his opening two throws, landed a safe 69.04m effort in round three and then sent his hammer out to 76.43m in round four. Ethan Katzberg of Canada came within seven centimetres of that mark in the next round, but Miller remained in top spot until the end.
Like Miller, Jamaica&rsquo;s Janieve Russell became another back-to-back winner. She retained her 400m hurdles title in 54.14 from compatriot Shiann Salmon (54.47) and at one point it seemed as though Jamaica would achieve a medal sweep, but South Africa&rsquo;s Zeney van der Walt came charging through at the end to overtake Rushell Clayton and take bronze in 54.47, just two thousandths of a second behind Salmon.
Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands also successfully defended his title in the men&rsquo;s event. The 25-year-old won comfortably in 48.93 from Jamaica&rsquo;s Jaheel Hyde (49.78).
On a good day for defending champions, Jemima Montag triumphed in the women&rsquo;s 10,000m race walk. The Australian won by more than a minute in 42:34.30 while India&rsquo;s Priyanka Goswani claimed silver in 43:38.83. Kenya&rsquo;s Emily Ngii took the bronze medal in 43:50.86.
Newly crowned world champion Eleanor Patterson was surprisingly defeated in the women&rsquo;s high jump. The Australian managed a best of 1.92m, 10 centimetres below her winning height in Oregon, while Jamaica&rsquo;s Lamara Distin took gold with 1.95m.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Jamaican sprinter breaks Games record with 22.02

Thompson-Herah and Kiplimo complete doubles at Commonwealth Games

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrated Jamaican Independence Day by scorching to a world-leading 10.66 (+0.5m/s) in a magnificent display of controlled speed to win the women&rsquo;s 100m at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial &ndash; a last-minute addition to the 2022 Wanda Diamond League calendar &ndash; in Silesia on Saturday (6).
In the stadium known locally as &lsquo;The Witches Cauldron&rsquo;, persistent rain couldn&rsquo;t prevent some of the world&rsquo;s premier athletes from conjuring their special brand of magic, as Mondo Duplantis also produced another spellbinding performance.
It was the first ever Diamond League meeting to take place in Poland and it did not disappoint with nine meeting records, a Diamond League record and six Polish all-comers&rsquo; records.
Jamaican legend Fraser-Pryce, who has won five world titles and two Olympic gold medals over 100m, showed she has lost none of her edge since the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, running clear of a world-class field for her second Diamond League meeting victory of the year, following Paris in June.
&ldquo;I always come into races expecting to run fast,&rdquo; said the ebullient sprinter. &ldquo;Last year I set a meeting record here, now it is a Diamond League and it is a lot more competitive with many top athletes. I came here prepared for it to be cold or raining, but it was not so bad, it actually got warmer later in the day.
&ldquo;Last year I felt a lot of pressure on me and this year I decided to just have fun,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;It is amazing to be this consistent. I am always excited to compete and see what I can do.&rdquo;
USA&rsquo;s Aleia Hobbs was second in 10.94 and Ivory Coast&rsquo;s Marie-Jos&eacute;e Ta Lou was third in 11.00.
Another athlete well used to firsts is world and Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis. Fresh from his world record-breaking exploits in Eugene, the Swede looked like an athlete at the very peak of his powers, as the opposition slipped away in the rain.
In his second vault of the competition, he cleared 5.83m and was already the last man standing. To the delight of the crowd, he made a first-time clearance at 6.00m. He then targeted an outdoor all-comers&rsquo; record of 6.10m and although the bar wobbled, he succeeded at the third attempt to thrill an appreciative audience.
He bowed out there, having done more than enough in less-than-ideal conditions. &ldquo;It is a little unfortunate with the weather, because the last two days the weather was like 32 degrees, sunny and warm. But it is what it is.
&ldquo;It would be nice to have that today. But I like the way I was able to jump today. I do not think I could have jumped very much higher today. I did not have enough speed to get even higher. The last one I had, it was a really good technical jump. I cannot complain at all. I am only a human and I am doing what I was able to do today.
&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t on a stiff enough pole (to go higher),&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a pole I am surprised I could make 6.10m on. It&rsquo;s the highest I have ever made on that pole. I got everything out of that pole and what the day gave me.&rdquo;
Norway&rsquo;s Sondre Gottormsen and world bronze medallist Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines were second and third, both clearing 5.73m.
The hammer competitions were poignant events, as the meeting is named in honour of Poland&rsquo;s 2000 Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowksa who died suddenly and prematurely in 2009. And the moment was not lost on men&rsquo;s winner Pavel Fajdek, the five-time world champion who has hit a rich vein of form after retaining his title in Eugene.
He uncorked a second-round throw of 81.27m, a Diamond League record and his second-best throw of the season to claim victory from Olympic champion and Polish teammate Wojciech Nowicki, whose best was a fourth-round throw of 79.19m. Frances Quentin Bigot was third with 78.83m
&ldquo;I have been competing in a lot of Diamond League competitions, but this one is special,&rdquo; said Fajdek. &ldquo;It is most important especially for Kamila Skolimowska who is in our hearts, so we always try to give our best here.
He was said the conditions were not an issue for him. &ldquo;As a kid I trained in all weather, whether it was raining or snowing or when it was really hot, so I am prepared for any conditions. The rain can never make me worse. I even throw better when it is raining!&rdquo;
The two hammer competitions took place simultaneously in the same circle, alternating between men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s throwers.
With home favourite and triple Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk missing the bulk of this season with a thigh injury, USA&rsquo;s Brooke Andersen has filled the void as world champion and world leader in the women&rsquo;s discipline.&nbsp;
She initially struggled to adapt to the weather and format, but managed to find her form in the final round. She landed the hammer at 75.76m to see off compatriot and world bronze medallist Janee Kassanavoid whose best was a second-round throw of 74.89m. Poland&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Malwina Kopron was third with 70.37m.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was a very exciting competition,&rdquo; said Andersen. &ldquo;In the last round I finally managed to be more patient and focused. I was kind of rushing during the whole competition. It was kind of frustrating. Once I finally realised it, everything was okay.
&ldquo;This is actually first time I have competed in a mixed competition like this,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;When you see these guys throwing 80 metres, of course, you also want to throw the same or just get close to it. It makes you try harder, it was very exciting.&rdquo; 
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 Newly-crowned world champion Alison Dos Santos oozed confidence as he took the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles in a meeting record. World Championships fifth-place finisher Khallifah Rosser of the USA made a race of it to the home straight, but Dos Santos charged away from the penultimate hurdle to win in a Polish all-comers&rsquo; record of 47.80, licking his lips as he crossed the line.&nbsp;
Rosser was a 0.5 adrift in second with France&rsquo;s Wilfried Happio, fourth in Eugene, third here in 48.74.&nbsp;
The flat 400m races also produced meeting records.
In the men&rsquo;s race, world gold and silver medallists Michael Norman and Kirani James renewed their rivalry. Norman ran a confident race, leading at 200m and not letting up until he crossed the line in a Polish all-comers&rsquo; record of 44.11, 0.44 clear of James. USA&rsquo;s Bryce Deadmon was third in 44.68. 
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 Netherland&rsquo;s Femke Bol produced a storming run to win the women&rsquo;s race, bagging her first ever sub-50-second run on the flat.&nbsp;
The world silver medallist over 400m hurdles showed superb speed to win in 49.75 for a national and meeting record. It helped propel Natalia Kaczmarek to her first run under 50 seconds too, as she finished second in 49.86. Third place went to Candice McLeod in 50.22.&nbsp;
In the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles, Olympic champion and world bronze medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico got back to winning ways. Despite trailing at halfway, she delivered her customary strong finish and outdipped world record-holder Kendra Harrison to win in a Polish all-comers&rsquo; record of 12.34 (+0.8m/s).
Harrison was just 0.03 behind with fellow US hurdler Tia Jones running a lifetime best of 12.49 in third.
In the men&rsquo;s long jump, Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece was another Olympic gold medallist looking to go one better than his second place in Eugene. And it was mission accomplished as he set a meeting record of 8.13m in the fifth round.
In the men&rsquo;s triple jump, Andy Diaz got the better of several global medallists, winning with a second-round best of 17.53m. World and Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo managed a best of 17.29m for second place and Olympic silver medallist Zhu Yaming of China leapt 17.25m to place third.
There was a slight surprise in the women&rsquo;s 1500m as world 5000m champion Gudaf Tsegay was beaten by Ethiopian teammate Diribe Welteji, the fourth-place finisher over 800m at the recent World Championships. 
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 The Ethiopians were well clear with two laps to go, but Tsegay was unable to shake Welteji, the 2018 world U20 800m champion. As they entered the home straight, Welteji made the decisive move and strode away to win in 3:56.91, a meeting record and personal best by more than two seconds. Tsegay was second in 3:58.81 and their fellow Ethiopian Hirut Meshesha was third in 4:00.93.&nbsp;
World champion Shericka Jackson logged yet another impressive victory as the Jamaican won the women&rsquo;s 200m with plenty in hand in 21.84, yet another Polish all-comers&rsquo; record. The speed endurance of world 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo came to the fore and she finished strongly to take second in 22.35 ahead of USA&rsquo;s Jenna Prandini in 22.39.
&ldquo;The race went according to plan,&rdquo; said Jackson. &ldquo;I just wanted to execute, focus on my lane and not look at what my rivals were doing. I approach all my races like that. I am not thinking about the world record. I just try to do my best; if it comes, it comes.&rdquo;
There was yet another meeting record in the women&rsquo;s shot with world champion Chase Ealey of USA landing a mighty 20.38m third-round throw. World bronze medallist Jessica Schilder scored a Dutch record with 19.84m in second, with Canada&rsquo;s new Commonwealth Games winner Sarah Mitton third with 19.44m.
&ldquo;After the World Championships I felt it would be hard to be in top shape so soon, but I&acute;m happy I was able to turn around so fast and come right back to my best,&rdquo; commented Ealey. &ldquo;I remain motivated and I want to break the American record at the Diamond League final. The ring was still wet after the rain today, but the conditions were not a big problem.
&ldquo;I have always enjoyed coming here. The atmosphere is very vibrant and the audience know the throws.&rdquo;
World silver medallist Joe Kovacs left it late to win the men&rsquo;s shot. His final-round throw of 21.79m just got the better of Tom Walsh &ndash; who travelled through the night to get to Silesia after winning the Commonwealth title in Birmingham yesterday &ndash; by nine centimetres. World bronze medallist Josh Awotunde was third again with a best of 21.35m.&nbsp;&nbsp;
In the men&rsquo;s 100m, world bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell got the better of US teammate and world silver medallist Mavin Bracy-Williams, clocking 9.95 to 10.00. In a photo finish, Ackeem Blake of Jamaica was third, sharing 10.00 dead.
In the men&rsquo;s 800m, world and Olympic champion Emmanuel Korir of Kenya was severely tested. Running wide and fifth into the home straight, he left himself a lot to do. But straining every sinew, he edged past compatriot Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich in the closing strides to win by 0.04 in 1:45.72. 
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 Double Olympic champion Sifan Hassan bounced back from her World Championships disappointments to win the women&rsquo;s 3000m. Running within the pack, she made her move with 250 metres to go, taking over from long-time leader Ejgayehu Taye of Ethiopia. Looking strong and focused, she added a second kick with 100 metres to go and eased clear to win in 8:39.27.&nbsp;
World indoor bronze medallist Taye held off world 10,000m bronze medallist Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi for second place in 8:40.14.
The women&rsquo;s javelin was won by world bronze medallist Haruka Kitaguchi of Japan with a dramatic final-round throw of 65.10m to snatch victory from evergreen double Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova, the Czech&rsquo;s best being an opening round 62.29m.
In the men&rsquo;s event, Olympic silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic won with a fourth-round throw of 86.68m. Germany&rsquo;s Julian Weber and USA&rsquo;s Curtis Thompson took second and third with 84.94m and 82.39m respectively.
The women&rsquo;s high jump was won by Uzbekistan&rsquo;s Safina Sadullayeva, taking a surprise win on countback over world silver medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh, both clearing 1.92m.
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Six days of competition featuring some 1500 athletes from around 140 teams and there&rsquo;s now just one final session to be held at the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22.
Ten sets of medals are up for grabs on Saturday (6), the men&rsquo;s discus final kicking things off at 3:30pm local time and the men&rsquo;s 4x400m final bringing things to a close at 5:43pm.
Here are just three of those events to watch out for.
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<h2>Hill and James go head-to-head</h2>
Kerrica Hill finished seventh in the 100m final at last year&rsquo;s World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi but this time the 17-year-old is going for gold in the 100m hurdles. She was just 0.02 off the championship record in the semifinals, clocking a world U20-leading PB of 12.87, and entered the championships as quickest thanks to her 12.98 to win the Jamaican U20 title.
But victory won&rsquo;t be a walk in the park. In the next semifinal in Cali, her compatriot Alexis James improved her PB to 12.94, dipping under 13 seconds for the first time, to set up an exciting Jamaican head-to-head.
Hungary&rsquo;s Anna Toth set a national U20 record of 13.23 last month and improved it to 13.16 to finish second behind Hill in their semifinal, while US U20 champion Jalaysiya Smith will also look to challenge for a medal, having won her semifinal in 13.20.
<h2>High hopes for Bruus and Topic&nbsp;</h2>
Estonia&rsquo;s Karmen Bruus and Serbia&rsquo;s Angelina Topic have both equalled the world U18 best of 1.96m this year and will be hoping to take that form through to the high jump final in Cali, to contend for the crown.
Bruus achieved her mark at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, as one of 15 athletes doing the Oregon and Cali double this season. The clearance also matched the senior Estonian record and she had earlier jumped a PB of 1.93m just to make it to the final. 
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Karmen Bruus competes in the high jump final at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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For Topic, her 1.96m came at the Serbian Championships in June and she also jumped 1.95m in Athens at the start of that month, plus 1.93m in Kraljevo in May.
Topic also won the European U18 title in Jerusalem in July, clearing 1.92m, as Bruus finished seventh with 1.75m. Now the 17-year-olds will look to push each other to new heights.
Britt Weerman of the Netherlands is just 1cm behind them when it comes to PBs, the 19-year-old breaking the senior national record with 1.95m in Belgium last month. She won the European U20 title last year, a competition in which Elisabeth Pihela claimed bronze, and the 18-year-old Estonian also joins them in the final.
<h2>4x400m finals bring competition to a close</h2>
The last events on the track are the 4x400m finals, and both look set to be highly competitive.
The US team topped the heats in the women&rsquo;s competition, Mekenze Kelley, Madison Whyte, Zaya Akins and Kennedy Wade combining to clock a 3:32.94 season&rsquo;s best and win their race ahead of Canada with 3:33.98. The Jamaican team clocked 3:34.92 to win their heat, and that quartet didn&rsquo;t include Dejanea Oakley, who finished fifth in the individual final. There was a national U20 record of 3:34.10 for Finland, seeing them win the third semifinal ahead of India, whose team included 400m bronze medallist Rupal who helped them to a 3:34.18 national U20 record.
Britain&rsquo;s squad for the final may include the 400m champion in Cali, Yemi Mary John. Joining them are Australia and Germany.
USA, Jamaica and Japan were the heat winners in the men&rsquo;s event and the final could come down to a clash between those three nations. USA has individual 400m silver medallist Steven McElroy to call on, while Jamaica has sixth-place finisher Shaemar Uter. It was Japan that went quickest overall in the first round, clocking a season&rsquo;s best of 3:07.25, while Jamaica ran 3:07.32 and USA 3:07.82. They&rsquo;ll be joined in the final by France, Czech Republic, Spain, Canada and South Africa, with 400m winner Lythe Pillay helping his team to qualify.
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