There was a dramatic finish to day one of the World Athletics Championships here, where The Netherlands were twice denied by stumbles approaching the finish line in the women's 10,000 metres and mixed 4x400m finals.

Olympic 1,500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen edged himself a little closer to Hicham El Guerrouj’s 25-year-old world record of 3min 26.00sec at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia as he improved his own European record to 3:27.14.

Puerto Rico's Olympic women’s 100 metres hurdles gold medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico beat Nigeria’s world champion and record holder Tobi Amusan at Ostrava’s Golden Spike meeting.

One small sidestep for a big man - one giant leap for shot putting.

America’s Ryan Crouser added 19 centimetres to his own world shot put record at the Los Angeles Grand Prix with a fourth-round throw of 23.56 metres.

Ryan Crouser of the United States raised his own men’s world shot put record to 23.38 metres at the indoor Simplot Games in Pocatello in Idaho.

Yared Nuguse won the Wanamaker Mile finale at the 115th Millrose Games in New York in a North American record of 3min 47.38sec, the second fastest time in history.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran a World Championship record of 10.67sec to retain her women’s 100 metres world title in Eugene, leading a Jamaican clean sweep of medals the day after the hosts had won gold, silver and bronze in the men’s race.

Fred Kerley laid down a huge marker for next month’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene as he recorded the fastest men’s 100 metres time so far this year, a meeting record of 9.76sec, en route to victory at the United States trials.

Trayvon Bromell’s mercurial 100 metres career had an up rather than a down day at the Prefontaine Classic as he earned a victory that may not have been one of his swiftest - in 9.93sec on a blustery afternoon - but might, given the opposition, have been one of his most significant.

Italy’s Olympic 100 metres champion Marcell Jacobs beat world 100m champion Christian Coleman of the United States to the men’s 60 metres title by just three thousandths of a second at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, clocking a European indoor record of 6.41 seconds.

The Millrose Games brands itself as the world's premier indoor athletics event. It prides itself on its unique history, having first been staged at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1914, a venue it occupied annually until switching to its current Manhattan arena, The Armory, in 2012.

Ryan Crouser appeared to have raised his own indoor shot put world record to a massive 23.38 metres at the Millrose Games in New York City - only to hear that there had been a measurement error and his best effort was inside his past mark of 22.82m.

Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis started 2022 by winning with 6.02 metres in Karlsruhe at the first of this year’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings - with world 100 metres champion Christian Coleman poised to return to action in the second tomorrow after his doping ban.