Shaunae Miller-Uibo will start the defence of her International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League 200 metres title in Shanghai tomorrow against a field that includes the world champion, Dafne Schippers, and silver medallist Marie-Jose Ta Lou.

Christian Coleman underlined his credentials as sprinting’s swiftest man in the post-Bolt world as he won his first major title at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, winning the 60 metres in 6.37sec.

Sir Mo Farah's final track race on home soil ended in a defeat and the end of a remarkable winning run of success as Muktar Edris of Ethiopia pipped him to the world 5,000 metres title at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here tonight. 

Kendra Harrison made a winning return to the London track on which she broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record last year, clocking up a 21st consecutive victory in 12.39sec at the ninth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting of the season.

A year on from breaking the long-standing 100 metre hurdles world record at London’s Olympic Stadium, Kendra Harrison will return tomorrow for the ninth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting of the season.

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.

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.

Kendra Harrison of the United States, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record of 12.21sec in London last month with a time of 12.20 after failing to qualify in the US Olympic Track and Field trials, offered evidence of what Rio missed tonight as she defeated a strong field in 12.42 at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.

Usain Bolt put his recent hamstring problems behind him as he recorded 19.89sec to win over 200 metres in his last race before Rio 2016 at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League meeting in London – but even Bolt had to give best on the night to the performance of US 100m hurdler Kendra Harrison, who lowered one of the longest standing world records, the 1988 mark of 12.21 set by Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova, with a time of 12.20.

The unique depth of American talent in the women’s 100 metre hurdles meant that the US Olympic Track and Field Trials were going to be painful for some world class athletes - and as things turned out, it was the athlete who ran the second fastest ever time of 12.24sec on the same track in Eugene on May 28, Keri Harrison, who failed to make the trip to Rio de Janeiro next month. 

Hayward Field in Eugene in Oregon is an arena awaiting drama right now as the best of United States’ athletes prepare for the sudden-death phenomenon of the Olympic Track and Field Trials, which are due to start tomorrow. 

The Olympic aspirations of David Rudisha, the defending 800 metres champion, received an unexpected jolt on a rain-swept evening in Stockholm’s 1912 Olympic Stadium as he could only finish fourth in the concluding event of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting.

For some athletes, six years represents their top class career but for Susanna Kallur, Sweden’s injury-plagued former European 100 metres hurdles champion, that is the timespan since she last competed.

Two young female athletes went to the brink of world records at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.

World and Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metre champion Mo Farah gets his Olympic season off and running in Eugene tomorrow night as he runs his first outdoor track race since retaining his world titles in Beijing last summer.