Diamond League: Gabby Thomas equals Doha record in the women’s 200m, Dina Asher-Smith takes third place

Gabby Thomas equalled a Doha Diamond League document after storming to victory within the ladies’s 200m.

Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson got here second with a season-best time of 22:07, whereas Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith got here third with a private greatest of twenty-two:37.

There was an enormous shock within the ladies’s 400m, as double Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas may solely end third. The Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino emerged victorious in a time of 51.20 – a season greatest. Jamaica’s Stephenie-Ann McPherson got here second, additionally with a season-best time of 51.69s

Noah Lyles received the lads’s 200m with a time of 19.72, breaking the assembly document in a Diamond League meet in Doha.

The American was pushed all the way in which by Fred Kerley, who got here second in 19.75. Reigning Olympic gold medallist Andre De Grasse completed fourth in a time of 20:15.

It was additionally a day to recollect for Alison Dos Santos, who took a gathering document with an outstanding time of 47:24 within the males’s 400m hurdles.

There was disappointment for Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshim, because the Olympic champion was crushed by world indoor champion Sanghyeok Woo within the males’s excessive leap.

It was a mammoth effort from Woo, with the South Korean leaping an enormous 2.33m to edge previous Barshim, whereas the hotly-tipped Olympic gold medallist Gianmarco Tamberi exited the competitors after three failures at 2.24m.

There was additionally an upset within the males’s 1500m, with reigning champion Timothy Cheruiyot solely managing to return second behind Kenya’s Abel Kipsang.

Grenada’s Anderson Peters received the lads’s javelin in excellent vogue with a distance of 93:07 to safe victory within the Closing 3 of the lads’s javelin.