Victory in the final event of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, the women’s 4x400 metres relay, strengthened the home domination of a medals table involving more countries than ever before at an event described by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe as "the greatest show on earth".

 "I feel the ball’s been dropped a little bit, not going to lie," Noah Lyles, who broke the 200m

Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay secured a breakthrough global victory in the women’s 5000 metres at the World Athletics Championships on a day when three Olympic champions also topped the podium and Canada’s men’s 4x100m relay team beat the hosts to gold.

Double world 200m champion Noah Lyles played his part in the home effort with a second leg split of 8.94

The men’s and women’s 200 metres delivered richly in Eugene as Noah Lyles defended his world title in

I was very self-concerned about whether that number was going to turn from a '2' to a '1,'" Lyles later

I didn't want to see '32,' I didn´t want to share a record," Lyles said of his reaction immediately after

Lyles was followed by the compatriot who beat him to Olympic silver last summer, Kenny Bednarek, in 19.77

Everybody dreams of this day," said Lyles. "But today was my day."

Noah Lyles told me I will be one of the greatest in the sport."It feels good coming from him."

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carrying the Scottish and British flags when celebrating his men's 1500m win ©Getty ImagesAmerican Noah

Lyles celebrating qualifying in the men's 200m ©Getty ImagesNorway's Karsten Warholm, the world record

Britain's Jake Wightman beat Norway's 1500 metres gold medallist Jacob Ingebrigtsen to the world title in Eugene on a sensational evening of athletics at Hayward Field that saw a new generation of champions emerge.

of fearsomely competitive men's and women's 200m semi-finals.In the men's racing, defending champion Noah

Lyles topped qualifying in 19.62sec from his 18-year-old US rival Erriyon Knighton, who clocked 19.77

Five reigning Olympic champions from four different continents underlined the global nature of athletics as they won gold on day four of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

14.89m and bronze went to home athlete Tori Franklin on 14.72m.Defending men's 200 metres champion Noah

Lyles topped qualifying for the next day's semi-finals in 19.98sec ahead of 18-year-old fellow American

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.

Erriyon Knighton, fourth fastest ever over 200m, will take on his fellow American and defending champion Noah

Lyles when Oregon22 starts on Friday ©Getty ImagesThe men's event will feature two home sprinters of

dizzying talent in Noah Lyles, the defending champion, and 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton, who on April

19.19, Yohan Blake on 19.26 and compatriot Michael Johnson on the former world record mark of 19.32.Lyles

over the final 20 metres and crossing the line with his finger pointing across at him.The gesture, Lyles

the USA Track and Field (USATF) Outdoor Championships and world trials at Hayward Field in Eugene as Noah

Lyles and Abby Steiner won gold in super-fast times but Sha’Carri Richardson and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist

Lyles, who won Olympic bronze last summer, will return to the same track to defend his world title next

19.83.Knighton heads this year’s world lists with 19.49, putting him fourth on the all-time list, with Lyles

second on 19.61.As he crossed the line, Lyles pointed at his younger rival, a gesture he explained afterwards

despite his season’s best of 19.87.Having run 19.95 in his first round and 19.81 in his semi-final, Lyles

Sydney McLaughlin lowered her own women’s 400 metres hurdles world record to 51.41sec on the third day of the USA Track and Field (USATF) Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene - the trials for next month’s World Athletics Championships at the same venue.

women’s javelin with a final throw of 64.26m.Meanwhile world champion and Olympic bronze medallist Noah

Lyles clocked an easy-looking 19.95sec in his men’s 200m first-round race, with world 100m champion

Devon Allen moved up to third place on the all-time 110 metres hurdles list as he clocked 12.84 seconds at the USA Track and Field New York Grand Prix to inflict a shock defeat on world champion and fellow American Grant Holloway.

there was a timely flourish from home world champions over 100 and 200 metres, Christian Coleman and Noah

Lyles respectively, both of whom have wildcards to defend their titles in Eugene.Things are coming together

, however, by Jamaica’s 20-year-old rising talent Ackeem Blake, who clocked a personal best of 9.95.Lyles

Olympic 400m hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin, who opened her season in Nashville last week with a time of 51.61sec - the third fastest in history - will be one of the main draws of tomorrow’s USA Track and Field (USATF) New York Grand Prix.

She will be joined in the limelight by home athletes Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles and Grant Holloway

the Prefontaine Classic, will be seeking to break ten seconds for the first time this season, while Lyles

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.

Kerley, who clocked 9.98, world champion Christian Coleman, third in 10.04, and world 200m champion Noah

Lyles, who recorded 10.05.Lightning in a a bottle.blows across the line. 9.93.

It is a measure of Eugene’s Prefontaine Classic meeting - which tomorrow forms the third stop on the Wanda Diamond League tour - that it can lose four Olympic gold medallists at late notice and still remain packed with compelling competition and world record attempts.

exit in Birmingham because of a false start, world champion Christian Coleman, world 200m champion Noah

Lyles and Canada’s Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse.And 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton, who last

Rome’s Olympic Stadium on July 14 1998. Hicham El Guerrouj, targeting the world 1500 metres record, has just finished, 50 metres clear of a world-class field. Has he done it?

But so does Noah Lyles, the world 200m champion and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, who adds his views to

An ill-wind that blew the men’s pole vault event out of the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha did the men’s javelin throwers, and Anderson Peters in particular, good tonight as Grenada’s world champion won with a last throw of 93.07 metres to go fifth on the all-time list.

pic.twitter.com/hfCnmLXcBk— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) May 13, 2022Another Doha 2019 world champion, Noah

Lyles, who had to settle for Olympic 200 metres bronze last summer, produced a big statement of intent

per second - 0.1 metres per second over the allowable limit.Apart from besting the Olympic champion, Lyles

Noah to take men's 200m at Doha Wanda Diamond League 2022.???

Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) May 13, 20Kenya’s 17-year-old world indoor 800m silver medallist Noah