American three-time Olympic champion Tianna Bartoletta has hit out at her compatriot Christian Coleman for his attitude towards a provisional anti-doping suspension.

In the Stadium where she won Olympic long jump gold five years ago, Brittney Reese of the United States claimed her fourth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships title after a third-round effort of 7.02 metres earned her victory in a hugely competitive final.

Eight days after eclipsing Usain Bolt’s official world best time for the 300 metres in Ostrava, Wayde van Niekerk will take to the track at the Stade olympique de la Pontaise for the annual Athletissima meeting in Lausanne tomorrow.

Two huge long jump talents, Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist Tianna Bartoletta and London 2012 champion and triple world champion Brittney Reese, produced an extraordinary display at the USA Track and Field World Championships trials in Sacramento as both qualified for this summer’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London.

The United States won a third successive Golden Baton as overall winners of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Relays in Nassau, but on an evening that began with rain the sun came out for the hosts with victory in the concluding, new event of the mixed 4x400 metres.

Kendra Harrison, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record last month after failing to qualify at the US Olympic track and field trials, is heading into tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Paris with another world record in mind.

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson bucked the trend on a huge night for United States women athletes as she became the first woman since Florence Griffith-Joyner at Seoul in 1988 to win the sprint double at the Olympics, winning the 200 metres in 21.78sec after holding off the world champion Dafne Schippers of The Netherlands, who clocked 21.88.

Mo Farah maintained his four-year winning streak at 10,000m as he earned victory on the first night of the International Association of Athletics Federation’s Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, clocking a season's best time of 26min 50.97sec on the Hayward Field track that will host the 2021 World Championships.