Double Olympic and Wanda Diamond League 1500 metres champion Faith Kipyegon will be one of the marquee home attractions at tomorrow’s final World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season in Nairobi.

Anzhelika Sidorova, who was in tears after having to settle for Olympic silver in Tokyo, experienced a reversal of fortune at the Diamond League Final in Zurich as she became only the third women’s pole vaulter to better 5.00 metres outdoors, winning with a Diamond League record of 5.01m.

Double Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge plans to build a library in every school in Kenya and to plant a forest in all 47 counties of his native country as part of the first stage of projects within the Eliud Kipchoge Foundation, which launched today.

Olympic women’s high jump champion Mariya Lasitskene finished her season on a fresh high with victory on the opening day of the Diamond League Final in Zurich, as the destination of seven Diamond Trophies was determined on Sechseläutenplatz - one of the city’s most famous squares.

A host of Olympic gold medallists will be in attendance at the two-day Wanda Diamond League final which starts in Zürich tomorrow, with 32 champions due to emerge from those who have qualified in the course of this season’s previous 11 meetings.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, suitably rested after running the women’s 100 metres in 10.60sec, the third fastest time ever, returned to action in phenomenal fashion today at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Chorzow, Poland, winning in a meeting record of 10.81.

Suitably rested, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will return to action at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Chorzow, Poland tomorrow for the first time since running the third fastest women’s 100 metres time ever.

Christine Mboma of Namibia and Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba won big over 200 and 5,000 metres respectively at tonight’s Diamond League meeting in Brussels as Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis set a meeting record of 6.05 metres and got close to the world record.

Mondo Duplantis and Sifan Hassan, of whom world records are nowadays expected almost as a default, will be in the field at Brussels tomorrow night in the last Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season before the Final in Zurich from September 8 to 9 – and either of them could indeed deliver.

The Budapest General Assembly today endorsed the call of the city’s Mayor, Gergely Karácsony, to withdraw its approval for hosting of the 2023 World Athletics Championships if the Government sticks to plans to build a campus for China’s Fudan University on land where a student city was to be sited.

Budapest’s Mayor Gergely Karácsony will propose to the Budapest General Assembly - the capital’s City Council - tomorrow that it withdraws its approval for the city to host the 2023 World Athletics Championships.

Olympic champions Armand Duplantis, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Hansle Parchment, all beaten in Lausanne on Thursday (August 26) night, re-asserted themselves in style here today with emphatic victories at the Paris Diamond League meeting.

Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, whose winning time of 10.54sec in Eugene last Saturday (August 21) was the second-fastest time ever, will seek to maintain her breath-taking form here tomorrow as the Diamond League moves on to the French capital.

A windy night at the Stade de la Pontaise in Lausanne blew several Olympic champions off course in tonight’s Wanda Diamond League meeting as Elaine Thompson-Herah, Hansle Parchment and Mondo Duplantis suffered rare defeats in the women’s 100 metres, men’s 110m hurdles and pole vault.