As it happened: Gyulai Istvan Memorial athletics in Hungary - Fraser-Pryce and McLaughlin shine, Jackson and Duplantis win again

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sydney McLaughlin, Shericka Jackson and Mondo Duplantis take victories in star-studded Continental Tour Gold event in Szekesfehervar.

7 minBy Rory Jiwani
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrates victory
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Sydney McLaughlin were the star turns at the penultimate Continental Tour Gold meet of the season, the Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on Monday (8 August).

After her season's best at Saturday's Silesia Diamond League, Jamaica's Mommy Rocket was just one-hundredth slower today with a winning time of 10.67.

And McLaughlin was the picture of serenity as she eased to victory in the 100m hurdles, smashing the old meeting record by over a second in the process.

Fellow world champions from Eugene last month, Shericka Jackson and Mondo Duplantis, continued their winning form along with Slovenia's discus champ Kristjan Ceh.

Joe Kovacs put together a fine series to take the shot put, while 400m hurdles world champion Alison dos Santos was second on a rare excursion in the flat 400m behind Vernon Norwood.

Marvin Bracy turned the tables on Trayvon Bromell as Americans swept the podium spots in the 100m, with world 200m bronze medallist Erriyon Knighton completing the evening's entertainment in style with the last in a number of meeting records.

Read on to find out what happened (latest news top).

19:20 Erriyon Knighton rounds off meeting in style

And appropriately, there’s a meeting record to end proceedings.

Erriyon Knighton fairly shot out of the blocks and was up on fellow American Kenny Bednarek leaving the bend before the world silver medallist stopped with what looked like a hamstring strain.

Neither Knighton nor Bednarek had raced since making the podium in Eugene, but Knighton crossed the line in 19.88, three-hundredths inside Christian Coleman’s previous meeting record from 2019.

Canada's Aaron Brown (20.24) was second with Alexander Ogando of Dominican Republic third in 20.38.

19:10 Shericka Jackson eases to 200m victory

The women's and men's 200m round off proceedings in Szekesfehervar and world champion Shericka Jackson was a class apart in the former.

She wasn't as spectacular as in Eugene or Chorzow in Saturday's Silesia Diamond League, but the Jamaican came home in glorious isolation in 22.02, just six-hundredths outside the meeting record.

Mujinga Kambundji completed a solid meeting with second in 22.45 to go with her 100m third, just ahead of USA's Kayla White (22.46).

19:00 More meeting records, for Sydney McLaughlin and Kristjan Ceh

All too easy for arguably the athlete of 2022, Sydney McLaughlin.

The American world and Olympic champion and world record holder looked completely relaxed as she ran away with the 400m hurdles with Jamaica's two-time reigning Commonwealth Games champion Janieve Russell a distant second.

The time was 51.68, inside the old meeting record by over a second and exactly one second outside her world record from last month's Eugene World Championships.

Russell clocked 54.14 in second with another Jamaican, Rushell Clayton, third in 54.45.

The discus world champion from Eugene, Kristjan Ceh, wasted little time in settling matters in Hungary.

In round one, the Slovenian produced a throw of 71.23m for yet another meeting record on a fine day of athletics.

Andrius Gudzius of Lithuania was nearly four metres back in second with 67.39m with Sweden's Olympic champion Daniel Stahl (67.01m) third.

18:45 Alison dos Santos beaten in rare flat outing

World 400m hurdles champion Alison dos Santos just came up short in his switch to the 400m flat.

The Brazilian was right in contention but USA’s Vernon Norwood produced a late surge to win in a time of 44.96.

Dos Santos took second in 45.11 with another American, Michael Cherry, clocking 45.42 in third.

Serbia’s Milica Gardasevic set a new personal best of 6.83m to take the women’s long jump.

Agate de Sousa of Sao Tome and Principe was second with 6.78m ahead of Britain’s Jahisha Thomas (6.63m).

And joint Olympic high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi took victory in what was something of a lacklustre competition with conditions affecting the participants.

He won on countback from Germany’s Tobias Potye with both men clearing 2.24m. Ukraine’s Andriy Protsenko (2.18m) was third.

18:30 World champion Holloway suffers shock defeat

Grant Holloway looked certain to win the men’s 110m hurdles but clipped the penultimate hurdle and slowed suddenly.

Jamaica’s Commonwealth Games champion Rasheed Broadbell caught him on the line to win in 13.12 with Holloway clocking the same time. U.S. champion Daniel Roberts was one-hundredth back in third place.

A couple of earlier track results to bring you: Diribe Welteji of Ethiopia took the women’s 800m in 1:59.33, while Kenya’s Nicholas Kiplagat Kebenei won the men’ in 1:45.49.

18:20 Joe Kovacs storms to shot put victory

What a series from Joe Kovacs. The two-time world champion had four throws in excess of 22m with his best coming in round five, a meeting record of 22.89m.

Tom Walsh of New Zealand (21.93m) took second with Czech Tomas Stanek (21.66m) third.

There was another meeting record in the women's 100m hurdles with Puerto Rico's Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn clocking 12.27 to take victory.

She was one-hundredth inside Keni Harrison's previous mark with the American second in 12.49 ahead of compatriot Nia Ali (12.60).

18:10 Marvin Bracy takes men's 100m

Marvin Bracy made an excellent start to the men's 100m with Christian Coleman close early on, but the former world champion faded with Trayvon Bromell proving Bracy's nearest challenger.

Bracy crossed the line first in 9.97 with Bromell (10.01) and Elijah Hall credited with the same time in third ahead of Yohan Blake (10.03).

Bromell had beaten Bracy in the Silesia Diamond League on Saturday.

18:00 Nowicki turns tables on Fajdek

Olympic hammer champion Wojciech Nowicki could not stop Pawel Fajdek claiming a fifth successive world title in Eugene last month, nor beat his fellow Pole on home soil at the Silesia Diamond League at the weekend.

But he exacted revenge earlier today, winning with a fourth-round throw of 79.96m from home favourite Bence Halasz (79.44m) with Fajdek (79.15m) in third.

The women's hammer went to USA's world champion Brooke Andersen with 74.84m. Her team-mate Janee' Kassanavoid was second (72.58m) with Katrine Koch Jacobsen of Denmark (70.13m) taking third.

Joe Kovacs is leading the men's shot put after a meeting record in round two of 22.36m.

And Mondo Duplantis fails with his third attempt at 6.01m. We can forgive him the odd off-day and, of course, he had already done enough to win the competition.

17:50 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce surges to meeting record

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won't want this season to end!

After clocking a season's best 10.66 in Poland on Saturday, the Jamaican superstar flew out of the blocks in Hungary and burst clear of her rivals to cross the line in a hugely impressive 10.67.

Tamari Davis of the United States (10.92) was second with Swiss sprinter Mujinga Kambundji (10.99) in third ahead of Twanisha Terry.

Mondo Duplantis is human after all. He's had two failures at 6.01m after winning the pole vault with a first-time clearance of 5.80m which was just his second vault of the competition.

17:30 Duplantis takes pole vault ahead of old rival Lavillenie

A better performance from London 2012 Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie after he no-marked on Saturday in the Silesia Diamond League, but not enough to stop Mondo Duplantis.

They were the only two men left at 5.80m which Duplantis cleared at the first attempt.

The Frenchman came closest with his third attempt but knocked off the bar to hand victory to the Swede who may now attempt something beyond six metres.

Gyulai Istvan Memorial schedule (all times local CEST - UTC+2):

16:15 Men’s pole vault

16:45 Official opening

17:00 Men’s shot put

17:05 Men’s high jump

17:15 Women’s long jump

17:20 Women’s 800m

17:30 Men’ 800m

17:40 Women’s 100m

17:50 Men’s 100m

18:00 Men’s discus

18:05 Women’s 100m hurdles

18:20 Men’s 110m hurdles

18:30 Men’s 400m

18:45 Women’s 400m hurdles

19:00 Women’s 200m

19:10 Men’s 200m

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