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Trayvon Bromell upset fancied US teammate Noah Lyles to win the 100m at the Diamond League in Paris on Sunday as Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis dominated the pole vault in a high-quality meet.Lyles, the reigning Olympic champion, suffered a disastrous start and could not make up the difference as Bromell, a two-time world bronze medallist, stormed to the win in 9.91 seconds from lane eight."I'm good. The feeling at the start was not what I expected," said Lyles, who finished second, a hundredth of a second off Bromell.Switzerland's Audrey Werro continued her dominant form over 800m as she scorched to another victory, in a Diamond League record of 1min 53.80sec.Femke Broeders-Bol, the convert from 400m hurdles, was second in a personal best of 1:55.60 as she continued her transformation into a true two-lap competitor.Werro's time was the third fastest ever run, bettering her previous best set in Stockholm earlier this month by 0.18sec.The 22-year-old Swiss runner's performance saw her edge closer to the oldest world record in athletics - the 1:53.28 for the outdoor 800m set by Jarmila Kratochvilova of the then-Czechoslovakia in 1983."I was not expecting to run this fast this season," said Werro, who credited her improving time to becoming a professional athlete no longer also juggling university studies."These recent performances have really given me hope and built my confidence to what is coming next."In the pole-vault, Duplantis, like Emmanouil Karalis, entered the competition at 5.63m, both skipping 5.73m.The Greek cleared 5.83m without a problem, Duplantis opting to sit that height out as the competition moved to the business end.The US-born Swede cleared 5.93m, along with France's Baptiste Thiery.Karalis failed once at that height before passing as the bar was set for 6.03m. Duplantis went over that to set a new meet record, bettering by 2cm the previous best he set back in 2021.That proved too high for Thiery and Karalis, Duplantis going on to easily clear 6.13m. The Swede then had three unsuccessful world record attempts at 6.32m.Arop thrives on fast trackBotswana's world champion Busang Collen Kebinatshipi timed his finish to perfection to claim the win in the 400m in a stunning meet and Diamond League record of 43.54sec.There was also an impressive performance in the men's 110m hurdles, American Jamal Britt clocking a personal best of 12.89sec.It was the joint eighth fastest time ever run over the high hurdles.A third Diamond League meet record was set in the women's 400m, won by Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic in 48.79sec.Canada's 2023 world champion Marco Arop, the Olympic silver medallist, burst from the field to win the men's 800m in an impressive 1:41.84, the fastest time over the distance this season."I know I am in really good shape now, but if I can finetune for the rest for the season I might be able to break the world record this year," Arop said of David Rudisha's 1:40.91 set when the Kenyan won Olympic gold in 2012.And on a fast track in perfect conditions, Australia's Cameron Myers ran the 12th fastest time ever to win the 1,500m in an Oceania record of 3:28.00. 

Olympic champion Armand Duplantis fell short of his bid for a world record at the Stockholm Diamond League on Sunday, suffering a surprise defeat as ‌Australia’s Kurtis Marschall clinched victory with a clearance of ​5.90 metres on his ‌third attempt.The defeat ended a run of 40 straight ‌victories for ⁠the 26-year-old, who ‌admitted he had one eye ‌on his upcoming wedding."It was time to lose, it was a ⁠very long time (since the last time). I can't fathom that I won 40 in a row, it's pretty sick, but it's also sick that I lose in Stockholm, which is the most important competition of the year for me," Duplantis told Swedish broadcaster SVT."This is not the last time I will lose, ​but I hope it's the last time I lose in Stockholm, I'm going to make sure of that, that it doesn't happen again."Jumping in front ‌of his home crowd, the ⁠hugely popular ​Duplantis was aiming to beat his previous best mark of ​6.31 to break the record for the 16th time, but the day got off to a bad start when he hit the bar on his first attempt at 5.60.The 26-year-old soared over that mark at the second attempt and looked to be back on track when he cruised over 5.80, but he failed in both attempts to clear six metres, and his last-ditch effort to clear 6.05 also came up short, ‌which handed Marschall the victory. ‌Duplantis finished in second ⁠place."You're either lucky in love or lucky in life, the wedding ⁠is soon, so maybe ⁠it's a huge silver lining to the whole thing," the Swede said. "It's a shame, because I really didn't want to have a bad performance here in Stockholm, where so many support me and give me love."On the track, world champion Melissa Jefferson Wooden blazed to victory ​in the women’s 100 metres in a time of 10.84, while in the men's 200 metres American double Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek cruised home first in a time of 19.87, the only athlete in the field to break the 20-second barrier.In the men's 800m, 17-year-old American Cooper Lutkenhaus had one of the stand-out performances of the day when he notched a season-best time of 1:42.70 ‌to win ahead ​of Marco Arop of Canada, with Algeria's Slimane Moula coming in third.

Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis is looking to pack more power into his jump ‌with a new 22-step approach, ​a longer run-up ‌than he previously used to ‌break the ⁠world ‌record multiple times ‌since 2020.Sweden's Duplantis, who set the world ⁠record for the 15th time when he cleared 6.31 metres in March, used to have a 20-step approach."Tried 22 steps for the first time in the indoor season, which was really ​nice," the 26-year-old told reporters on Friday, a day before the season's first Diamond League ‌meeting in Shaoxing."I ⁠feel like ​I hadn't really made a ​change in basically any part of the jump... since five or six years."Duplantis said he was looking forward to developing his new technique, with the World Championships set for next year, followed by the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles."We'll probably try ‌22 steps again tomorrow, ‌see how ⁠it feels, because I'm still very new ⁠to it," ⁠he added.Kenya's Faith Kipyegon, who has three Olympic golds and the world record in the 1,500m, is also looking to ease into the season, competing at the ​5,000m event on Saturday.Kipyegon took the silver medal in the 5,000m at the Paris Games and was the 2023 world champion at that distance."It's really to see how the body is, and going towards the final of the Diamond ‌League," the ​32-year-old said. 

Pole vault world record holder Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis will aim to win a fifth successive Diamond League title Wednesday in Zurich, the Swiss city hosting the circuit's finals just two weeks before the world championships in Tokyo."I have to be focused, I can't slack," said the US-born Swede, who has been in electric form, setting a 13th world record, of 6.29m, in Budapest earlier this month."High expectations are better than no expectations. It's a good problem, honestly," he said of the public's perception of the current state of the pole vault competition."It's bringing people to watch us, jumping high."Asked whether the 6.30m barrier could soon be breached, Duplantis played a straight bat."I try to maximise my days as much as I can. And if I feel like that on the day, it's a day that I have the possibliity to break the world record, I'll go after it."It would be amazing to do it here, it'd probably even more amazing to do it in Tokyo."It really is just a beautiful circus act that we do and I think we can entertain anyone anywhere in the world."Duplantis will compete in one of six field disciplines held at a street event on Zurich's Sechselautenplatz, directly in front of the city's iconic opera house.Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh will resume her rivalry with Australia's Nicola Olyslagers in the women's high jump while there is also the men's long jump, the women's pole vault, and the shot put for both male and female throwers."I'm ready to jump!" said Mahuchikh, the Ukrainian who set a world record of 2.10m last year."I started my season very well. The main thing now is to get in shape for Tokyo," she added in reference to the September 13-21 worlds in the Japanese capital."It's exciting, it's the main competition of the season. I'm going to Tokyo to protect my title."Lyles v TebogoThe remaining 26 Diamond League champions will be crowned in the course of a bumper programme at the Letzigrund Stadium tomorrow.The array of global stars on show includes the likes of Olympic 100m and 200m champions Noah Lyles and Letsile Tebogo.They face off in the men's 200m, with Botswana's Tebogo hunting a first ever Diamond League title and US sprinter Lyles looking to win the trophy for a record-breaking sixth time."With Weltklasse Zurich being the last race before the world championships, I am looking to run something special," said Lyles, who had to be happy with 200m bronze at the Paris Olympics in a race won by Tebogo.Olympic and Diamond League champion Julien Alfred also lines up in the women's 100m, while 800m star Emmanuel Wanyonyi and 400m hurdles ace Femke Bol will also be looking to defend their series titles.The majority of athletes have qualified for the Diamond League finals thanks to points accrued in the 14 meets to date, while a handful will compete in Zurich on global or national wildcards.There is, however, no place for Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men's 1,500m.The Norwegian, who has struggled with an achilles injury since winning double world indoor golds in Nanjing in March, was refused a wildcard because rules stipulate that he must have competed in at least one Diamond League meet during the outdoor season.He instead heads to a training camp in the Japanese city of Kyoto ahead of Tokyo to fine-tune preparation for a tilt at a 1,500-5,000m double.