The 24-year-old United States-based athlete, who had recorded 3min 49.99sec the previous evening, won the 3,000 metre in the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix at the Reggie Lewis Center, fourth stop on the tour.

Cheserek’s winning time was 7:38.74, with Ethiopia's Hagos Gebrhiwet and Dejen Gebremeskel, both previous winners of this event, clocking 7:41.79 and 7:42.78 respectively.

"I kept looking back, I knew I had something left over and I saved it for the last three laps," said Cheserek, whose performance the previous night was inferior only to the world record of 3:48.45 set by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj in 1997.

World 100m silver medallist Christian Coleman, who set a world 60m record of 6.37sec in his first indoor race this year, produced an expected victory in 6.46.

The 21-year-old from Atlanta finished ahead of China’s Xie Zhenye, who clocked 6.54, and the 20-year-old American Noah Lyles, the reigning IAAF Diamond League 200m champion, who recorded a personal best of of 6.57.

"The crowd showed up and they were amazing," said Coleman. 

"When you have a lot of people here, the fans charge you up and they're screaming loads and cheering, that really gets you up and going."

Donovan Brazier won the 800m in 1:45.11, the fastest indoor time run by an American runner since 1992 and not far off Johnny Gray’s US record of 1:45.00.

America's orld indoor champion Boris Berian, still searching for form, slid out of contention to seventh place in 1:50.17.

The quest goes on for world 3,000m steeplechase champion Emma Coburn, who has still been unable to beat her compatriot Jenny Simpson, the world 1500m champion in 2011 and the silver medallist at London last year.

Simpson won the 3,000m in a personal best of 8:40.31 with Coburn fourth in 8:43.57,

Sharika Nelvis won the battle of the top-ranked 60m hurdlers, starting the meeting off by clocking a time of 7.89.

But the margin of victory could not have been slimmer as Nelvis finished just seven thousandths of a second clear of another American, Christina Manning, 7.881 to 7.888.

Ethiopia's Dawit Seyaum appeared almost shocked awake by a late-race effort from Jamaica’s Aisha Praught-Leer in the women’s 1500m, scrambling to a 4:04.38 victory to Praught-Leer’s Caribbean indoor record of 4:04.95.

Chris O’Hare ran a meeting record 3:37.03 in the men’s 1500m, with fellow Briton Jake Wightman on his heels.

The previous record of 3:38.15 was run by Bernard Lagat in 2003.

America's orld 400m champion Phyllis Francis ran 52.38, but was beaten on the night by team-mate Shakima Wimbley in 51.82.

"I just wanted to make a name for myself," said Wimbley.