Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States, riding high after her 100 metres win over Jamaica’s 200m world champion Shericka Jackson in Sunday’s Silesia Diamond League meeting with a time of 10.76sec, had to give best to Saint Lucia's 22-year-old Julien Alfred at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial meeting.

Puerto Rico's Olympic women’s 100 metres hurdles gold medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico beat Nigeria’s world champion and record holder Tobi Amusan at Ostrava’s Golden Spike meeting.

Australia’s Olympic silver medallist Nicola Olyslagers joined Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine at the top of this season’s women’s high jump world rankings as she cleared 2.01 metres to win at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku in Finland.

Nineteen-year-old sprint phenomenon Letsile Tebogo ensured that the Botswana Golden Grand Prix - the first World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting to be held in Southern Africa - ended on a high for home fans in Gaborone with a storming 200 metres win.

World 100 metres champion Fred Kerley came up with the goods over 200m at the newly-named Maurie Plant meeting in Melbourne.

While the latest World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Turku is named after one of Finland's greatest track athletes, Paavo Nurmi, the focus tomorrow will be upon field events - and throwing events in particular.

Devon Allen moved up to third place on the all-time 110 metres hurdles list as he clocked 12.84 seconds at the USA Track and Field New York Grand Prix to inflict a shock defeat on world champion and fellow American Grant Holloway.

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.

Britain’s Eilish McColgan took almost 40 seconds off her 10,000 metres personal best as she won at Hengelo’s Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in 30min 19.02sec in a race where world record holder Letesenbet Gidey ran tactically to be first home in the incorporated Ethiopian World Championships trial.

Poland’s Olympic men’s hammer throw champion Wojciech Nowicki produced the world’s best effort so far this season, 81.58 metres, to win his second World Athletics Continental Tour Gold title on home soil in the space of two days.

Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol of The Netherlands will make her 2022 debut over 400 metres hurdles at the traditional home of Dutch athletics in Hengelo tomorrow, just six days after shattering the 300m hurdles world best in Ostrava.

The Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz produced the expected thunderous hammer-throwing action tonight as three-times Olympic women’s champion Anita Wlodarczyk maintained her unbeaten run and Olympic men’s champion Wojciech Nowicki narrowly beat compatriot and four-times world champion Pawel Fajdek.

Poland’s National Treasure, three-times Olympic women’s hammer champion Anita Włodarczyk, is set to offer home fans another performance to remember at the Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz tomorrow.

Gusting winds at the USATF Bermuda Games caused world 110 metres champion Grant Holloway to pull out of what should have been his outdoor season opener after asking organisers in vain for the track to be "flipped".

Trayvon Bromell of the United States bettered his own previous 2021 world-leading 100 metres mark at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi as he won in 9.76sec, with home runner Ferdinand Omanyala second in an African record of 9.77.