Four days after the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, 12 individual gold medallists took part in the main Zurich Diamond League meeting, with eight managing to produce winning performances.

Danielle Williams, Miltiadis Tentoglou, Yulimar Rojas, Sha’Carri Richardson, Mondo Duplantis, Noah Lyles

focus was to just stay healthy," Chopra said.On a decidedly cool night the world 100 and 200m champion Noah

Lyles of the United States secured an impressive victory over the longer distance, being forced to work

Everybody wants to beat me and everybody wants the cake and the crown, but I am not giving it to them," Lyles

Individual world champions Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson anchored the United States to a 4x100

For Lyles, it completed a hat-trick of gold medals in Budapest following on from his 100m and 200m success.Christian

of the World Athletics Championships here, where Jamaica's Shericka Jackson and the United States' Noah

Lyles defended their 200 metres titles in dominant fashion.

world champion Sha'Carri Richardson of the US took bronze with a personal best 21.92.In the men's race, Lyles

complete a 100m and 200m double at the World Championships since legendary Jamaican Usain Bolt in 2015.Lyles

19.75.Botswana's 20-year-old Letsile Tebogo added a bronze to his 100m silver with a time of 19.81.Noah

Lyles of the US clinched a men's 100m and 200m double at the World Championships in Budapest ©Getty

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doubles in the women's and men's competitions respectively ©Getty ImagesQuickest in the men's semi-finals Noah

Lyles of the US, right, and Andrew Hudson, left, were both involved in a golf buggy crash before the

Jamaican sprinter Andrew Hudson was granted an additional place in the men's 200 metres final at the World Athletics Championships here, after he came off worst from an extraordinary incident in which two golf buggies crashed en route to his race.

and a volunteer fell out of the buggy in the incident.American back-to-back defending 200m champion Noah

Lyles, who is seeking a double with the 100m in Budapest, was among the other athletes caught up in

American back-to-back 200m world champion Noah Lyles, left, was involved in the crash but clocked the

quickest time in the semi-finals at 19.76 ©Getty ImagesWhen it eventually got underway, Lyles set the

heptathlon title at the World Athletics Championships in spectacular fashion here, while the United States' Noah

Lyles was crowned men's 100 metres world champion.

Doha four years ago.She expressed her elation at returning to the top of the podium.The United States' Noah

Lyles powered his way to men's 100m gold in the last race of the day ©Getty Images"This has been one

World Athletics Championships ©Getty ImagesThe evening concluded with back-to-back 200m world champion Lyles

Revered American country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton is promoting NBCUniversal ‘s coverage of the next year's Olympic Games in Paris with a year to go through a video of her performing Queen songs We Are The Champions and We Will Rock You which includes clips of well-known Olympians.

world champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, double world 200m champion and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Noah

Lyles and seven-times Olympic swimming gold medallist Katy Ledecky.The United States women’s football

Noah Lyles, who will seek a third consecutive world 200 metres title this summer, warmed up in ideal

pic.twitter.com/YvdW6CQJXy— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) July 23, 2023Sitting alongside him, Lyles

Lyles, who will have derived huge confidence from his performance in the last Diamond League meeting

Zharnel Hughes set a "dream" British 100 metres record of 9.83sec at the New York City Grand Prix, beating the mark of 9.87 set by Linford Christie in winning the 1993 world title in Stuttgart.

year, won in a personal best of 49.51, with Thomas second in 50.29.Double world men’s 200m champion Noah

Lyles of the United States offered evidence of his continuing sharp form as he finished well clear of

World Athletics has encouraged people to get active to mark Olympic Day which is being celebrated today.

programme at the Rimi Riga Marathon in Latvia and an event in the American city of Atlanta where sprinters Noah

and Josephus Lyles met with children and spoke to them about the importance of being active for their

Norway’s athletics superstars Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Karsten Warholm broke new boundaries in providing keenly-anticipated and wildly-applauded home wins to round off the Oslo Diamond League meeting in the Bislett Stadium.

19.89, Knighton – whose 19.49 clocking last year was the fourth fastest of all time until compatriot Noah

Lyles won the world title in a national record of 19.31 – earned another Diamond League victory in 19.77

World 200 metres bronze medallist Erriyon Knighton contributed to an evening of meeting records at the Irena Szewinska Memorial meeting in Bydgoszcz with victory in 19.95 seconds.

towards his next challenge for a world medal in Budapest this summer.In the meantime his compatriot Noah

Lyles, who will seek a hat-trick of world titles this year, has run the fastest time of 2023 so far,

American singer Dolly Parton, one of the best-selling female artists of all time, and World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Roman Reigns have helped NBCUniversal  launch their build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

400 metres hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and 2022 men's world 200 metres gold medallist Noah

Lyles are both set to appear.Gymnasts Jordan Chiles and Shilese Jones, women's team gold medallists

metres at the USATF meeting in Bermuda - but only just got to the line before the super-fast finishing Noah

Lyles arrived to clock 9.80.

wind of 4.4 metres per second (mps) - well in excess of the 2.0mps admissible for record purposes – Lyles

The 19th World Athletics Championships is due to take place in Budapest over nine days of competition, from August 19 to 27, in the 35,000-capacity National Athletics Centre that has been newly built on the banks of the River Danube. 

But his compatriot Noah Lyles is at the peak of his powers, setting a US record of 19.31 to retain his