Sweden's pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and 400m hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States, world champions and record-breakers this season, were tonight named as respective men's and women's World Athlete of the Year.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Tobi Amusan and Yulimar Rojas are three of five finalists for this year's World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year honour.

Nine years after being voted Women's World Athlete of the Year, 35-year-old Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is in line for a possible repeat of the honour, while world champion pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis of Sweden and Kenyan marathon star Eliud Kipchoge have made the cut among men.

Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan has had her women's 100 metres world record of 12.12sec ratified by World Athletics following doubts over the accuracy of the timing system used in the race.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, maintaining warp speed after winning a fifth world 100 metres title, clocked 10.67 seconds today at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar, just 0.01 seconds off the 2022 world-leading mark she set in Chorzow on Saturday (August 6).

Sydney McLaughlin is a late addition to tomorrow’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Szekesfehervar - her first appearance on the circuit since pulverising her own world 400 metres hurdles record at last month’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

Like the final burst of a fireworks display, the last day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene produced a spectacular showing that included world records for Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis and Nigeria’s 100 metres hurdler Tobi Amusan of, respectively, 6.21 metres and 12.12sec.

Home athlete Sydney McLaughlin broke the 400 metres hurdles world record for the fourth time as she won her first world title amid frenzy at Hayward Field, becoming the first woman to break 51 seconds with an unearthly clocking of 50.68sec.

Sydney McLaughlin lowered her own women’s 400 metres hurdles world record to 51.41sec on the third day of the USA Track and Field (USATF) Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene - the trials for next month’s World Athletics Championships at the same venue.

Olympic 400m hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin, who opened her season in Nashville last week with a time of 51.61sec - the third fastest in history - will be one of the main draws of tomorrow’s USA Track and Field (USATF) New York Grand Prix.

Treble Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has made the final five for this year's World Athletics' Female World Athlete of the Year award, as well as last year's winner Yulimar Rojas.

A 10-person shortlist for World Athletics' Female World Athlete of the Year honour has been released, with Jamaica's triple Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah and the European Female Athlete of the Year Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands headlining the nominees.

America's Sydney McLaughlin took a huge chunk out of her own world record at Tokyo 2020 here as she clocked 51.46sec to win an Olympic women’s 400 metres hurdles final that delivered a competitive spectacle to rival the previous day’s men’s version it so strangely resembled.

Achieving a world record at the Olympic Games is the ultimate track and field achievement, but as the athletics programme gets underway tomorrow morning at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, a little short of five years since the last one in Rio de Janeiro, it is prospective personal rivalries that command attention.

Sydney McLaughlin was the star on the closing day of the United States Olympic Team Trials in Eugene in Oregon, after breaking the world record in the women's 400 metreshurdles as she booked her place at Tokyo 2020.