Germany’s Gina Luckenkemper sent a home crowd already supercharged with emotion by the dramatic victory of home decathlete Niklas Kaul into further delirium as a desperate lunge for the line earned her the European women’s 100 metres title by five thousandths of a second.

Earlier on a heady evening of athletics here Jakob Ingebrigtsen completed one half of his defence of

athletics action at the European Championships in Munich ©Getty ImagesEarlier in the men's 5,000m, Ingebrigtsen

All 10 European athletes who won world titles in Eugene last month, and all 12 European Olympic champions have converged in Munich for the European Athletics Championships that starts here tomorrow.

Norwegian who will defend both those European titles here, 21-year-old Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Oliver Hoare of Australia won a towering men's 1500 metres final here with a last lunge for the line after a pulsating finish in which Scotland's world champion Jake Wightman attempted to replicate his world-title winning run last month but could not sustain the lead he had taken around the final bend.

Wightman hanging in for bronze in 3:30.53.Hoare had given notice of his potential by finishing just behind Ingebrigtsen

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan is set to defend the title she won on the Gold Coast four years ago, when she takes part in the Commonwealth Games athletics programme that starts tomorrow.

Take out Jakob Ingebrigtsen and the Spaniards and it's almost the World Championships again."

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jump champion Malaika Mihambo of Germany retained her title with a leap of 7.12m ©Getty ImagesJakob Ingebrigtsen

The concluding day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene produced one of the great athletics sessions of all time.

The essence of the sport.At 21, Jakob Ingebrigtsen is already a multiple champion.

Ingebrigtsen was about to demonstrate.Norway's 21-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen, right, beaten in the 1500m

Like the final burst of a fireworks display, the last day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene produced a spectacular showing that included world records for Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis and Nigeria’s 100 metres hurdler Tobi Amusan of, respectively, 6.21 metres and 12.12sec.

run in 2022, to the latter’s 1:56.38.Like his near-contemporary Duplantis, Norway’s 21-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen

The men’s and women’s 200 metres delivered richly in Eugene as Noah Lyles defended his world title in a United States record of 19.31sec - leading a second home sweep in the men’s sprints - and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson earned a first global gold in 21.45, the second fastest time ever.

fastest qualifier for Sunday’s men’s 5,000m final in 13min 13.30sec, with Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Britain's Jake Wightman beat Norway's 1500 metres gold medallist Jacob Ingebrigtsen to the world title

kicks to 3:29.23 and defeats Jakob Ingebrigtsen ?? to claim world 1500m gold!

Wightman, his face hollow with concentration, set the controls for the line - and there was nothing Ingebrigtsen

Fred Kerley led a United States clean sweep of the men’s 100 metres medals on day two of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, clocking 9.86sec to finish ahead of compatriots Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell, who took silver and bronze, respectively, in 9.88.

gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah also progressed.Norway’s 21-year-old Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 that starts tomorrow at the re-built Hayward Field in Eugene will feature a flood tide of talent across track and field events - but the big question is how far that tide will run across a country hosting this competition for the first time.

will seek a first world outdoor title for his CV, and in the men’s 1500m Norway’s Olympic 1500m Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Among the innovations at the Hayward Field venue that has been re-built to host the Oregon22 World Athletics Championships that start on Friday (July 15) is a 10-storey tower which pays tribute to five track and field legends from the neighbouring University of Oregon.

home 800m runner Athing Mu, and the respective men’s and women’s 1500m gold medallists in Tokyo, Jakob Ingebrigtsen

 Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the Olympic 1500 metres champion, added another feather to his cap at the Bislett

Ingebrigtsen, one of six Olympic champions taking part in the latest Wanda Diamond League meeting, won

Steve Cram in 1985 when he ran what was then a world record, and remains a European record, of 3:46.32.Ingebrigtsen

Strange to relate, Norway’s Olympic 1500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has yet to win the senior

injured himself on his season’s debut in Rabat earlier this month, there will be a strong home focus on Ingebrigtsen

set up an under-20 edition of the Dream Mile, largely to accommodate their emerging superstar, and Ingebrigtsen

season, when he won indoors in Doha with 6.02m, and recently set the season’s outdoor best of 6.01m.Like Ingebrigtsen

Trayvon Bromell’s mercurial 100 metres career had an up rather than a down day at the Prefontaine Classic as he earned a victory that may not have been one of his swiftest - in 9.93sec on a blustery afternoon - but might, given the opposition, have been one of his most significant.

runner Ajee Wilson, the world indoor champion, who clocked 1:58.06.Norway’s Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen