Noah Lyles secures thrilling victory over Justlin Gatlin to clinch 100m Diamond Trophy in Zurich

Noah Lyles gained the 2019 IAAF Diamond League 100m title in Zurich, coming from behind to beat world champion Justin Gatlin in a time of 9.98 seconds.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Karsten Warholm and Sydney McLaughlin additionally took dwelling a Diamond Trophy on an exhilarating evening of athletics.

With Christian Coleman absent within the males’s 100m line-up as he contests his cost for whereabouts violations, Lyles and 37-year-old Gatlin had been the heavy pre-race favourites on Thursday.

Roared on by 25,000 followers inside a packed Letzigrund, Lyles was a stride behind Gatlin after 60m and seemed off the tempo.

However Lyles is legendary for his sturdy end and, true to type, finally powered previous a tense-looking Gatlin within the last third to seal the title.

Second place went to China’s Xie Zhenue in 10.04 seconds, whereas Jamaican Yohan Blake pipped Gatlin to 3rd in 10.07 seconds.

Lyles will skip the 100m at subsequent month’s World Athletics Championships in Doha with a purpose to think about his favoured 200m.

He said afterwards, “I’m taking one problem at a time, race first after which carry out. The 200m in Doha, that’s positively a certain factor.

“In the present day was like a World Championships last for me as I can’t do the 100m in Doha.”

“I’ll compete in Brussels subsequent week. You will note me within the 200m there. Two years in the past I used to be watching the others win Diamonds, oh my God. And this 12 months I’m attempting to come back away with two Diamond race wins. It will be one thing.”

Private greatest seals it for Miller-Uibo

Shaunae Miller-Uibo continued her two-year unbeaten streak over any distance to win the Ladies’s 200m Diamond Trophy in a blistering private better of 21.74 seconds.

In arguably probably the most stacked race of the evening, the Bahamian comfortably beat Nice Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith (22.08 seconds) with Olympic champion Elaine Thompson (22.44 seconds) in third.

Dutch world champion Dafne Schippers completed in fourth.

Olympic 400m champion Miller-Uibo confirmed afterwards that she wouldn’t run the 200m in Doha as she bids to assert her first world title.

She mentioned, “That is my final run earlier than the World Championships. My coach did a terrific job. I’m in nice form. It’s only a blessing. I’m very excited.

“That is my second PB in Zurich. I assume it’s a good observe for me. On the World Championships I’ll run the 400m, not the 200m.” – Shaunae Miller-Uibo

Warholm goes second on all-time listing

World champion Karsten Warholm ran the second quickest 400m hurdles in historical past as he bought the higher of American Rai Benjamin.

The Norwegian broke his personal European file with 46.92 seconds, simply 0.14 exterior Kevin Young’s world file set on the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, with Benjamin simply six-hundredths behind.

Benjamin’s time put his joint-third on the all-time listing with final 12 months’s world chief Abderrahman Samba and Ed Moses.

Warholm established a transparent lead over his rivals within the early a part of the race. Nevertheless, a stutter on the penultimate hurdle nearly gifted victory to Benjamin earlier than Warholm pulled away as soon as once more to seal the trophy.

And the world file is certainly on the playing cards in Doha.

“It was loopy. I knew that I’d do a superb time however this race and with this new PB, it is simply wonderful and nonetheless the perfect will come.” – Karsten Warholm after his 400m hurdles win

He added, “Now focusing for Doha and doing the identical as regular, arduous coaching. ln a approach, I would wish to say goodbye and see you subsequent season however it’s the World Championships, the largest factor this 12 months.

“This race was so shut it might have gone each methods. I push him and he pushes me, it is wonderful.”

Sydney McLaughlin stuns world once more!

United States’ Sydney McLaughlin grew to become the youngest ladies’s 400m hurdles Diamond League champion in historical past.

World file holder and 2019 world chief Dalilah Muhammad was the slender pre-race favorite, however might solely handle third as McLaughlin pulled clear to win in 52.85 seconds, simply one-tenth exterior her private greatest.

One other American in Shamier Little took second.

The victory implies that McLaughlin has not misplaced a Diamond League race over the hurdles all season.

One leap sufficient for Echevarria

Juan Miguel Echevarria sailed out to eight.65m within the first spherical of the lengthy leap, the perfect leap on the planet this 12 months.

The younger Cuban didn’t have one other authorized leap within the competitors, however his new Diamond League file proved greater than sufficient.

South Africa’s Ruswahl Samaai was second with 8.20m forward of Jamaica’s Tajay Gayle on countback with reigning world champion Luvo Manyonga fourth only a centimetre additional again.

However Echevarria appears to be like the person to beat on the World Championships, and the latest Pan American Video games champ thinks he can threaten Mike Powell’s 1991 world file of 8.95m.

He mentioned, “I really feel so good, very completely happy and glad. It’s a nice efficiency. It confirmed nice energy. I felt superb earlier than the competitors, I used to be ready very effectively.

“We had superb situations at the moment. I preferred the environment right here very a lot. In Doha, after all, I need to win the gold medal, just like the others. Every part is feasible, even a file.”

Elsewhere, Shanieka Ricketts prompted a shock within the ladies’s triple leap.

Along with her last leap, the Jamaican recorded a private better of 14.92m to overhaul Olympic silver medallist Yulimar Rojas (14.74) and seal the Diamond Trophy. Within the males’s pole vault, United States’ world champion Sam Kendricks leaped 5.93m to take first place forward of Sweden’s Armand Duplantis.