Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen won the triple jump with a personal best of 15.18m, World Athlete of the Year Renaud Lavillenie reached 6.05m in the pole vault and Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim won the high jump with 2.41m.

Ibarguen, the world indoor and outdoor champion, produced a jig of joy after extending her three-year unbeaten run with her final effort of the afternoon, which surpassed the 15.04 which appeared likely to give Yekaterina Koneva of Russia the victory.

Frenchman Lavillenie missed the opening Diamond League pole vault event in Doha after injuring a shoulder two weeks ago while running a sprint relay in a club competition.

But he showed he was in good shape as he dominated proceedings at Hayward Field, winning before having three decent cracks at his world record of 6.16,

Barshim, who became the second best high jumper in history last year with a clearance of 2.43m, is after Javier Sotomayor’s 22-year-old world record mark of 2.45 again this season.

And his performance here in a top class competition from which he eventually withdrew complaining of cramp indicated the likelihood of him achieving that ambition.

China’s Guowei Zhang had a breakthrough to finish second in a personal best of 2.38, with third place going to US jumper Erik Kynard.

The Olympic silver medallist of 2012 cleared 2.35.

The women’ 100m was won by Jamaica’s world and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who announced her return to form and fitness this season with a time of 10.81 - her first sub-11sec time since 2013.

That was matched by second-placed Murielle Ahoure, in what was an Ivory Coast record, with Tori Bowie of the United States third in 10.82.

Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria was fourth in 10.88.

Fraser-Pryce had a disappointing opening Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, where she could only manage fifth place in 11.25.

“It was one of those races where I absolutely could not explain what went wrong,” she said.

But in Eugene her deeds spoke louder than words.

Her victory was preceded by a Women’s 100m B race won in 10.84sec by English Gardener - of Oregon - with Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson second with same time.

Six women under 10.90sec - some sprinting spectacle…

There was another sprinting spectacle as 33-year-old US runner Justin Gatlin, who has served two doping bans, matched his personal best of 19.68 to win the 200m, with South Africa’s Anaso Jobodwana setting a national record of 20.04 in second place.

Allyson Felix, the Olympic 200m champion, stole a march in the 400m as she defeated world champion and fellow American Sanya Richards-Ross, 50.05 to 50.29.

Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba produced the fourth fastest outdoor time ever run, and the fastest ever in the United States, as she won the 5,000m in 14:19.76, not so far away from the world record of 14:11.15 set by elder sister Tirunesh in 2008 at Oslo.

Like Ibarguen, Kenya’s Olympic and world 3,000m steeplechase champion Ezekiel Kemboi was also dancing after winning in a 2015 world-leading and meeting record time of 8min 01.71 by a fraction from the newish kid on the block, fellow Kenyan Jairus Birech, who clocked 8:01.83.

The women’s 800m was a similarly tight finish, with Kenya’s world champion Eunice Sum winning in 1:57.82, the fastest time run so far this year and just 0.05 swifter than home runner Ajee Wilson.

Scream of delight from France’s exuberant Pascal Martinot-Lagarde marked his victory in the 110m hurdles in a 2015 best time of 13.06, finishing clear of US Olympic champion Aries Merritt, who clocked 13.12, and the US world champion David Oliver, who could only manage 13.14 despite the fact that his favourite team, Arsenal, had just beaten Aston Villa 4-0 in the FA Cup final.

The Bowerman mile was won by Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman in 3:51.10, the fastest run this year, and just 0.10sec faster than US runner Matt Centrowitz, who held off Kenya’s world champion Asbel Kiprop.

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