London Diamond League 2023: Zharnel Hughes breaks British 200m record

Zharnel Hughes broke the 30-year British 200m grounds by clocking 19.73 seconds successful beforehand of a sell-out 50,000 assemblage astatine the London Diamond League.

The grounds clip saw Hughes instrumentality third, with American satellite 200m champion Noah Lyles winning successful 19.47 secs.

It is the 2nd long-standing nationalist people Hughes has breached this season, having smashed the 100m grounds successful June.

Hughes, who ran 9.83 secs successful New York to amended Linford Christie's clip successful 1993, antecedently ran 19.77 with an amerciable upwind velocity to assertion the UK 200m rubric successful Manchester earlier this month.

Compatriot Dina Asher-Smith ran a 100m season's champion of 10.85 secs to spot 2nd down Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast.

That enactment her up of Jamaica's satellite 200m champion Shericka Jackson, with Britain's Daryll Neita taking 4th successful 10.96 secs.

However, Keely Hodgkinson withdrew earlier the women's 800m arsenic a precaution due to the fact that she was feeling unwell.

The 21-year-old Briton had been excited to vie astatine London Stadium for the archetypal clip but volition present absorption her attraction connected adjacent month's World Championships successful Budapest and the accidental to execute the golden she missed retired connected by 0.08 seconds past year.

Sunday's competition, the archetypal large athletics conscionable to beryllium held astatine London Stadium since 2019, represented 1 of the last opportunities for immoderate of the sport's biggest names to fine-tune their preparations for the worlds, which commencement connected 19 August.

Hughes delivers connected superb time of athletics

Zharnel Hughes volition purpose to triumph a archetypal planetary rubric successful Budapest successful August

Hughes, 28, predicted his 100m British record, penning it down successful his notebook connected the greeting of the race.

While helium would not perpetrate to targeting the 200m people connected Sunday - contempt Lyles' insistence during the pre-event quality league that the clip was wrong scope - a captivated location assemblage celebrated with the Briton arsenic his clip appeared connected the large screen.

Hughes, calved successful Anguilla and surviving successful Jamaica, uses a imaginativeness committee astatine location to representation retired his goals.

He precocious told BBC Sport helium has different 100m clip written down, which helium hopes to execute astatine the World Championships, and this show volition permission him afloat of assurance arsenic his afloat attraction turns to Budapest.

Lyles, who volition people an ambitious trio of satellite golds successful the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay adjacent month, showed helium remains the antheral to bushed implicit the longer sprint arsenic helium held disconnected Botswana's Letsile Tebogo.

Asher-Smith continues to amended but Hodgkinson misses out

With little than 4 weeks to spell until the World Championships, Asher-Smith continues to look sharper arsenic the play progresses.

The 27-year-old 2019 satellite 200m champion followed up the 200m season-best she posted successful Monaco connected Friday with her champion 100m show of 2023 successful a precocious prime field.

Jackson has recorded the fastest clip successful the satellite this twelvemonth but was ne'er progressive astatine the caput of the contention arsenic Ta Lou took victory, with Asher-Smith roared connected each the mode to her latest promising time.

Neita tin besides person fewer complaints aft improving to 10.96 this season, finishing 0.02 secs down Jackson.

Hodgkinson's lack was an undoubted loss, with the in-form Olympic and satellite metallic medallist expected to nutrient the expansive finale to proceedings.

However, successful her absence, Jemma Reekie delivered a stunning tally - mounting a gathering grounds of 1 infinitesimal 57.30 secs to clasp disconnected Jamaica's Natoya Goule-Toppin.

Van Niekerk stars arsenic world's champion descend connected London

Wayde van Niekerk continues to effort to rediscover his champion signifier aft sustaining a superior genu wounded successful 2017, conscionable months aft retaining his satellite rubric astatine the World Championships successful London six years ago.

Returning to that venue, South Africa's satellite grounds holder ran 44.36 secs to instrumentality triumph successful a contention successful which Matthew Hudson-Smith finished 4th successful a season-best 44.72 secs earlier being assisted disconnected the way successful a wheelchair.

Elsewhere, the Netherlands' Femke Bol dominated the women's 400m hurdles field, winning by much than 2 seconds arsenic she acceptable an improved world-leading clip of 51.45 seconds.

American Quanesha Burks jumped a idiosyncratic champion 6.98m to triumph the women's agelong jump, successful which European indoor champion Jazmin Sawyers (6.67m) and erstwhile satellite heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson (6.60m) finished 4th and 5th respectively.

American Yared Nuguse took triumph up of Norway's Narve Gilje Nordas successful 3 minutes 30.44 secs successful the men's 1500m, with the brace followed by a trio of British athletes.

Neil Gourley (3:30.60), Elliot Giles (3:30.92) and Matthew Stonier (3:31.30) each ran idiosyncratic bests.

London Marathon victor Sifan Hassan was made to settee for 3rd successful a women's 5,000m won by satellite champion Gudaf Tsegay successful 14:12.29 - contempt the Olympic champion moving a European grounds clip of 14:13.42.

Meanwhile, Britain's Aimee Pratt took 3rd with a season-best clip of 9:16.10 successful the women's 3,000m steeplechase arsenic Jackline Chepkoech stormed to triumph successful the women's 3,000m steeplechase successful a caller satellite pb of 8:57.36.

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