Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay secured a breakthrough global victory in the women’s 5000 metres at the World Athletics Championships on a day when three Olympic champions also topped the podium and Canada’s men’s 4x100m relay team beat the hosts to gold.

Ryan Crouser of the United States turned the men’s shot put into a virtual demonstration event today as he set three Olympic records, culminating in a last round effort of 22.30 metres, to retain his Rio 2016 title.

The kaleidoscope that is the current women’s 100 metres event took another turn at Székesfehérvár in Hungary today as Jamaica’s Rio 2016 100 and 200m gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah won in 10.71sec - the second fastest time run this year.

South Africa’s Caster Semenya, whose National Federation have vowed to fight the impending International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) rules on hyperandrogenism that threaten to diminish her effectiveness, did not betray any anxieties on the track tonight.

Man-of-the-moment Wayde Van Niekerk duly won his first major 400 metres since setting a world record of in last year’s Olympic final as he came home in 43.62sec at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) eighth Diamond League meeting of the season at the Stade olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne.

Cuban triple jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo has signed for Benfica after absconding from a training camp in Germany.

Christian Taylor tonight won another significant triple jump battle against his arch-rival, Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo, as he earned the overall Diamond Race victory, along with the winner’s prize of $40,000, in the final International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting of the season in Brussels.

For the second time in four days, Usain Bolt held off the challenge of Justin Gatlin of the United States here to complete his world 100/200 metre double in 19.55sec, the fastest 200m time run this year, and conclude a rare night of athletics that had already been punctuated with a historic triple jump of 18.21m by Christian Taylor, the second best ever achieved.

Twenty years ago this week a “skinny-looking, very ordinary guy” - his own description - hit the take-off board in Gothenburg’s Ullevi stadium at high speed. By the time his effort came to an end he had left a mark in the sand which, while it was soon smoothed away by an official brush, remains to this day in the form of a world triple jump record of 18.29 metres. Jonathan Edwards, ordinary guy, had done something extraordinary.

Canada's Andre De Grasse completed the men's sprint double at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games as the 20-year-old secured the 200 metres title here today to add to the 100m gold he won two days ago at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletics Stadium.

Mo Farah returned to competition here for the first time since doping allegations emerged about his coach Alberto Salazar, dedicating a thrilling 5,000 metres  win in an outstanding International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Diamond League meeting to the man he insists will continue to guide his career.

So anyway, Cuba’s prodigious young triple jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo was making the point that he should really be called by his full name, Pedro Pablo Pichardo Peralta, because, as he explained, most of his compatriots have two first names and two second names, and thus he takes the second name of his father, Pichardo, and also that of his mother, Peralta.

Justin Gatlin beat Usain Bolt’s three-year-old track record in Rome tonight, winning the 100 metres at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League meeting in 9.75sec.

Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo and United States’ Christian Taylor ensured the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League season started in stunning fashion after recording the fourth and fifth best triple jumps of all-time here tonight.