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Compelling personal duels in prospect at Monaco Diamond League meeting

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Top DJ Martin Solveig will be in residence at the Louis II Stadium tomorrow night as the IAAF Diamond League circuit reaches Monaco - and if the sets he plans to mix are anything like as compelling as the mix of top class action on show in the Principality, he will be doing very well.

Noah Lyles, edged into third place over 100 metres by his United States compatriots Christian Coleman


Coleman makes winning 100m return at Rabat Diamond League as Lasitskene's victory run ends

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World 60 metres record holder Christian Coleman, back after a month's injury lay-off, re-staked his claim to be considered the fastest new sprinter on the block as he won the men's 100m in Rabat in a season's best time of 9.98sec that equalled the meeting record.

20-year-old US sprinter who is currently joint top of the season's 100m listings with Baker on 9.88, Noah

Lyles, had to settle for a minor place as he finished third in 9.89.It was a historic night in Morocco


Eight nations ready to contest inaugural Athletics World Cup in London

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London is set to host the inaugural Athletics World Cup this weekend with eight nations ready to battle it out for honours.

200m.Middle-distance star Laura Muir is also not competing.The US team will be lacking major stars such as Noah

Lyles, the fastest man in the world this year, and fellow sprinters Christian Coleman and world champion


Coleman back for test against the best in IAAF Diamond League 100 metres in Rabat

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Christian Coleman, the world's fastest man over 60 metres, returns to action tomorrow at the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting in Rabat - and faces the three fellow Americans heading the season's world 100m lists.

US Championships three weeks ago with a minor muscle problem.But he is now fit to race 20-year-old Noah

Lyles, who currently jointly tops the season's rankings over 100m, with 9.88, and solely tops the 200m

, where he has run 19.69.Also in the race at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium is the man Lyles beat

void at the top of world sprinting following the retirement of Jamaica's Usain Bolt last season.Noah Lyles

Lausanne, will face US rivals Christian Coleman and Ronnie Baker in Rabat tomorrow ©Getty Images  Lyles


Extraordinary Ethiopian bust-up at Lausanne Diamond League

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Birhanu Balew of Bahrain won the men's 5,000 metres here at the eighth International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting of the season in a personal best and 2018 world-leading time of 13min 01.09sec.

Athletics Federation, will be making his views on the incident known.In the final event of the programme, Noah

Lyles offered another fluent demonstration that he could be the next big thing in the men's sprints

equalled his 2018 world-leading time and personal best of 19.69sec to win a 200m stacked with talent.Noah Lyles

200m victory in Paris last Saturday (June 30) in 19.84 - who led into the final straight, but Lyles

hurdles in 47.02, who clocked 20.16.After doing a no doubt carefully choreographed dance of celebration, Lyles


Concerns over strength of teams at revamped Athletics World Cup in London

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A home team lacking many of its major stars has been named today for the Athletics World Cup in London next weekend.

and every track race up to and including the 1,500m.The US team will be lacking major stars such as Noah

Lyles, the fastest man in the world this year, and fellow sprinters Christian Coleman and world champion


Mike Rowbottom: Bolt is gone - but talent is blooming all around the athletic garden

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I got asked the classic athletics question this week.

I said his compatriot Noah Lyles.Who knows, one of us might even turn out to be right in terms of who

Lyles, who tops this year’s world lists for 100m and 200m, with 9.88 and 19.69sec respectively, is 20

.Noah Lyles, celebrating last month's US Championships 100m victory in 9.88sec, is a strong contender


Samba becomes second man to break 47 seconds for 400m hurdles at IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris

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Abderrahman Samba produced yet another extraordinary exhibition of 400 metre hurdling at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here as he became only the second man to run the event in under 47 seconds. 

track entertainment as he equalled the fastest time run so far this season, achieved by his compatriot Noah

Lyles in this month's US Championships as Baker himself finished second in what was his previous best


Warholm seeks home revenge over Samba as IAAF Diamond League reaches Oslo

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Karsten Warholm was the toast of Oslo this time last year as he earned a breakthrough 400 metres hurdles win over Olympic champion Kerron Clement of the United States, lowering his Norwegian record to 48.25 seconds.

2015 world champion Hyvin Kiyeng, will be tough for the American to beat.In the 200m, the 20-year-old Noah

Lyles of the US will defend his title - and unbeaten Diamond League record - against, among others,


Lyles, Miller-Uibo and Ta Lou put on Diamond League fast show on Hayward Field's closing night

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Historic Hayward Field - soon to be ambitiously redeveloped - hosted its last big night of athletics as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting concluded in Eugene, Oregon with a series of sprinting performances that also offered the promise of breath-taking spectacles in the near future.

The penultimate event of the programme saw 20-year-old home athlete Noah Lyles extend his unbeaten Diamond

adding that his  opening 200m would take place at the Bislett Games on June 7.Twenty-year-old Noah

Lyles of the United States maintained his unbeaten Diamond League record over 200m in Eugene, Oregon


Coleman plans IAAF Diamond League sprint double at historic final fling for Hayward Field

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The field for this weekend's 44th edition of the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon - the third stop in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League series - promises suitably memorable action for what will be the last major meeting in the venerable surrounds of Hayward Field.

the Diamond League scoring events.His principal rival looks likely to be 20-year-old fellow American Noah

Lyles, who won the overall Diamond League 200m title in the Brussels final last season, and set a personal

100/200m double at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday ©Getty Images  Lyles


Mike Rowbottom: Tortu striding out in a great Italian tradition of sprinting excitement

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One of the most exciting things about watching Italian track and field athletes is the excitement they generate among their own supporters.

Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Under-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz behind the dominant figure of Noah

Lyles of the US.The young man from Milan was proceeding with caution in Poland under the guidance of

starting lessons a little later, on blocks set up on the walkway above Larvotto Beach.Twenty-year-old Noah

Lyles of the United States, pictured after winning this month's opening 200m at the IAAF Diamond League

But Lyles' legal personal best over 100m is only 10.14.In the short term, for Tortu - and Jacobs - this


Semenya puts controversy aside for a 1500m best in dazzling IAAF Diamond League opener at Doha

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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.

her US compatriot and reigning Olympic champion Brianna McNeal, who clocked 12.58.US sprinter Noah

Lyles won the men’s 200m in a meeting record 19.83.Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou, world silver medallist


Cheserek completes remarkable Boston double at IAAF World Indoor Tour

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Twenty-four hours after setting the second fastest indoor mile in history at the Boston University Track Center, Kenya’s Edward Cheserek maintained his winning form in the same city at the latest International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor tour event.

year-old from Atlanta finished ahead of China’s Xie Zhenye, who clocked 6.54, and the 20-year-old American Noah

Lyles, the reigning IAAF Diamond League 200m champion, who recorded a personal best of of 6.57."


World 60m record holder Coleman to make IAAF Indoor Tour debut in Boston

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World 60 metres indoor record holder Christian Coleman will make his debut on the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Indoor Tour tomorrow as it reaches the Reggie Lewis Center in American city Boston.

South Carolina on January 19, takes on a field that includes another super-talented US sprinter in Noah

Lyles, the IAAF Diamond League 200m champion.Lyles ran 6.57sec last week in New York, as did China's