Timothy Cheruiyot and Jakob Ingebrigtsen - the respective world and European 1500 metres champions -

night’s high-profile home performers as he resumes a rivalry every bit as keen as that of Cheruiyot and Ingebrigtsen

Uganda’s 23-year-old Joshua Cheptegei, world 10,000 metres champion and world cross country champion last year, added another indelible achievement to his CV in Monaco tonight as he marked the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season with a world 5,000m record of 12min 35.36sec.

champion Timothy Cheruiyot had won an almighty struggle with Norway’s 19-year-old European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

on the night.Kenya's world 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot held of Norway's European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

A last-minute deal signed by the BBC means viewers in Britain will be able to watch Diamond League athletics streamed live on television – and also on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube – starting with tomorrow's opening meeting in Monaco.

medallist, world bronze medallist Marcin Lewandowski of Poland and Norway's teenage European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Karsten Warholm achieved his mission at the Impossible Games in Oslo tonight as, running alone in a largely empty stadium – but watched worldwide via a live TV link – he marked the sport’s first big break-out from coronavirus lockdown with a world best for the 300 metres hurdles of 33.78sec.

Another of Norway’s local heroes, 19-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen, set a European 2000m record of 4min

outing, then had three unsuccessful attempts at the meeting record of 5.91m.Earlier in the evening Filip Ingebrigtsen

Jakob #Ingebrigtsen on beating @tim_cheruiyot's team in the 2000m.#ImpossibleGames?

The largest and most significant athletics meeting of the pandemic-blighted year will take place with Oslo’s Bislett Stadium at its centre tomorrow night – the self-styled Impossible Games – with another similar event, the Inspiration Games, based in Zurich set to take place on July 9.

Home athletes Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen will be among those involved in the Norwegian capital

screen, with victory going to the team with the fastest combined time from its top three finishers.Team Ingebrigtsen

Timothy Cheruiyot will lead a team of five Kenyan runners in a virtual 2000 metres race as part of the Impossible Games, a behind-closed-doors Diamond League event primarily in Oslo.

The 1500m world champion and his team are set to take on Team Ingebrigtsen, which includes Norwegian

international broadcast.Cram holds the European record for the 2000m himself - 4min 51.39sec set in 1985.Ingebrigtsen

The Ingebrigtsen brothers’ ambition of successfully defending the men’s under-20 and senior titles at

clocked 21:09, and Ireland’s Stephanie Cotter, who clocked 21:15.Following his victory, the younger Ingebrigtsen

Filip and Jakob Ingebrigtsen will defend their respective men's senior and under-20 titles tomorrow at

consecutive women's senior title ©Getty ImagesAt 20, Spain's Ouassim Oumaiz - who took silver behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen

before winning individual bronze the following year, will also be one to watch out for.Meanwhile, Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Eliud Kipchoge achieved a historic breakthrough today - although not an official world record – as he became the first man to better two hours for the marathon distance, clocking a time of 1 hour 59min 40.2sec.

States, a longstanding friend of Kipchoge's, who was one of the designated "captains", and Norway's Ingebrigtsen

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, who is seeking to run the first sub-two-hour marathon tomorrow in Vienna, has likened his quest to becoming "the first man on the moon".

Selemon Barega, former world 1500m and 5,000m champion Bernard Lagat of the United States and Norway's Ingebrigtsen

Karsten Warholm of Norway won one of the most keenly anticipated contests of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships here as he held off his two huge rivals, Rai Benjamin of the United States and home athlete Abderrahman Samba, to retain his 400 metres hurdles title.

seen Muktar Edris defy the rising 19-year-olds - fellow Ethiopian Selemon Barega and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen

rival in a final sprint to win in a season’s best of 12min 58.85sec, with Barega clocking 12:59.70.Ingebrigtsen

With all three of the big names in the men’s 400 metres hurdles winning their opening heats, the main focus on the opening day of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here fell upon the opening heat of the men’s 5,000m, which saw Guinea-Bissau’s Braima Suncar Dabo stop running to assist a stricken opponent, 33-year-old Jonathan Busby of Aruba, in finishing.

silver medallist Selemon Barega in 13:24.69.Barega’s contemporary, Norway’s European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Dina Asher-Smith won her first International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League title as she ran a season’s best in the women’s 100 metres final at the second of the finals in Brussels.

victory tonight in 3min 30.22sec, as he headed off Norway’s 18-year-old double European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Will Claye brought the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here to a dramatic conclusion as he produced a triple jump of 18.06 metres to outdo the fellow American who has beaten him to two Olympic titles and one world gold, Christian Taylor.

 Sudan’s Ayanleh Souleiman was second in a season’s best of 3:30.66 ahead of the Ingebrigtsen brothers.On

boys left the Extra supermarket with arms signed by the store’s illustrious sporting regulars - the Ingebrigtsen

youngsters waiting for autographs at the Sandnes Stadium that lies just a few hundred metres from the Ingebrigtsen

Each of the sponsored Mercedes cars carries the logo - "Team Ingebrigtsen - Das Beste oder nichts"And

- the numbers grow for a low-key Ingebrigtsen press event ©ITGNot saying the Ingebrigtsens are as big

But two series of documentaries, entitled, inevitably, Team Ingebrigtsen, aired in Norway but widely

The Brothers Ingebrigtsen - from left, Filip, Henrik and Jakob - prepare to do their thing for Norwegian