Chepkoech, Ta Lou, Lyles and Bol shine in London

Kenya’s Jackline Chepkoech produced a brilliant personal best of 8:57.35 as she won the 3,000m steeplechase at the London Diamond League on Sunday.

That display made her the only athlete to go under nine minutes this year and left the World 3,000m steeplechase record holder Beatrice Chepkoech to settle for second place in a season best of 9:04.34.

Kenya’s former world champion Timothy Cheruiyot could only finish eighth in men’s 1500m, a race won by America’s Nuguse Yared.

Marie-Josee Ta Lou showed that she will be a force to be reckoned with at next month's world championships as she claimed another Diamond League 100m win in a scorching 10.75 seconds.

In the final Diamond League meeting before the August championships in Budapest, Ta Lou, Noah Lyles (200 metres), Femke Bol (400m hurdles) and Chepkoech all produced stellar performances.

World champion Lyles also surged through late to win a stacked 200 metres as the American's 19.47-second run improved his own fastest time in the world this year by two tenths.

Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo was second in an African record 19.50 while Zharnel Hughes, who took the 30-year old British 100m record last month, completed a notable double by also erasing John Regis’s long-standing 200m mark with 19.73 in third.

Dutchwoman Bol also showed that she is in the hottest form when she blasted to a European record of 51.45 seconds in the 400m hurdles

Only American world record holder (50.68) Sydney McLaughlin has ever gone faster and Bol, second behind McLaughlin in last year’s world championship and third behind her at the Tokyo Olympics, will be hoping to finally bag global gold in Budapest.

South Africa’s world record-holder and 2016 Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk continued his climb back towards podium potential by winning the 400 metres in 44.36 seconds, just edging American Bryce Deadmon (44.40), on the track where he won the second of his world titles in 2017.