That record could stand for another 28 years and that is one of the things in terms of your resume that you want at the top – world record holder. Britain’s Emily Diamond, Seren Bundy-Davies and Anyika Onuora finished seventh, eighth and ninth.
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Canada’s Brianne Theisen-Eaton, the world leader in the heptathlon this year, will know that the Briton, who last month recorded her best heptathlon score since London 2012 with 6,733 points, is likely to now be the woman to beat in Rio.
Tracking the pacemaker from the off, Muir continued to push hard over the final 300m to move clear of runner-up Sifan Hassan.
McBride was coming off a victory at the Canadian Olympic trials in Edmonton, where he clocked 1:45.25.
“She was nearly a hurdle ahead of a world-class field”.
Jessica Ennis-Hill put the finishing touches to her Rio preparations by clocking the second fastest 100m hurdles of her life (12.76secs).
Bolt’s race in Friday’s 200m will be his last outing before his final Olympics.
“I would’ve liked to have gone quicker in the final, but just smacked a hurdle really bad and lost all momentum and that was it”.
That was the second British record of the night following the 41.81sec clocked by the victorious home quartet of Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Darryl Neita, the fastest time of the year so far.
Julian Forte, 10.11 ran fifth in the 100m, which was won by Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut in 10.02 ahead of Isaiah Young, 10.07 and Churandy Martina, 10.10.
Brazil were second in 42.59secs France were third in 42.84sec.
“After not making the Olympic team I wanted to come out here and show what I could have done”, an emotional Harrison said. But Kendra Harrison lowered that mark by 0.01sec to earn himself a Diamond League bonus of £38,000.
Eilidh Doyle was fourth in the women’s 400m but was kicking herself afterwards for losing crucial concentration along the home straight which perhaps cost her the victory that went to American Dalilah Muhammad. America’s Dalilah Muhammad was first in 53.90, while Sara Petersen of Denmark came from a long way back to take second with a season’s best of 54.33.
On a warm night, Canada’s Brandon McBride burned around the track at the old Olympic Stadium. Sam Kendricks took second with a best of 5.83m before retiring after two failures at 5.90m, with Lavillenie’s fellow countryman Menaldo third.
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There was a more muted celebration for Bolt, who nevertheless delighted the crowd by winning then spending his usual remarkable amount of time signing autographs, posing for photos and giving endless media interviews. No one in history has won three in a row. To run the British record is sensational’. Teenager Morgan Lake, who will compete in the high jump in Rio, achieved a season’s best 1.92m.
