USA’s Trayvon Bromell also achieved a world lead to win the 100m, running his fastest time since 2022. The 2016 world indoor 60m champion and two-time world 100m bronze medallist clocked 9.84 (1.1m/s) for a comfortable victory ahead of Emmanuel Eseme (9.99).

The men’s 400m was much closer – South Africa’s world leader Zakithi Nene and Olympic champion Quincy Hall battling all the way to the line before Hall dipped to deny his rival by 0.01 with a winning time of 44.22.

The gap between the top two was just thousandths in the men’s 110m hurdles. Switzerland’s Jason Joseph flew off the final hurdle to triumph, holding off USA’s world leader Cordell Tinch, who hit the final barrier, and they both crossed the finish line in 13.14.

Jamaica’s world finalist Andrenette Knight claimed a clear win in the 400m hurdles, clocking 53.67 ahead of Italy’s Ayomide Folorunso in 54.21, while USA’s Anavia Battle won the 200m in 22.53 (0.8m/s) ahead of Great Britain’s Amy Hunt (22.67).

The women’s 1500m got off to a blistering start but the pace eased off and it turned into a tactical battle, Ireland’s Sarah Healy coming through for the win in 3:59.17 ahead of Australia’s Sarah Billings and Abbey Caldwell as the top five finished inside four minutes.

Allman throws meeting record, Adcock saves best leap for last

Two-time Olympic champion Valarie Allman maintained her win streak in the discus, throwing a meeting record of 69.21m to triumph by more than two-and-a-half metres. Cuba’s 2019 world champion Yaime Perez was runner-up with 66.63m – those top two marks both coming in the fifth round.

New Zealand’s Tom Walsh clinched his first win since claiming his third world indoor shot put title in Nanjing in March. He threw 21.89m in the first round and that remained the best of the contest – securing him top spot ahead of Italy’s Zane Weir (21.67m) and Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell (21.64m).

There was an exciting end to the men’s long jump. Home favourite Mattia Furlani, the world indoor champion, only secured a spot in the final three at the last opportunity – jumping 8.07m in the fifth round. That matched the best mark achieved at that stage by Australia’s Liam Adcock as they trailed Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou by three centimetres, and while Tentoglou couldn’t improve in the final round, Furlani launched himself ahead with a leap of 8.13m. Adcock wasn’t done, though, and with the last jump of the competition he set a PB of 8.34m for victory.

Sandi Morris won the pole vault with her third-time clearance of 4.75m before also managing 4.80m on her third and final attempt, while her fellow two-time world indoor gold medallist Woo Sanghyeok won the high jump with a first-time clearance of 2.32m.

Jamaica’s Olympic and two-time world silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts topped a triple jump contest featuring multiple global medallists, leaping 14.64m to beat world indoor champion Leyanis Perez (14.46m) and Olympic champion Thea LaFond (14.30m).

Source: World Athletics