Sweden’s Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault world record at Diamond League Xiamen

Elsewhere, Australian teenager Torrie Lewis shocked world 100m champion Sha’Carri Richardson in the women’s 200m.

American Richardson, who took 200m bronze at the World Championships in Budapest last year, thought she had done enough to edge it in a blanket finish.

But 19-year-old Lewis ghosted through in lane nine to clinch victory by three hundredths of second, winning in 22.96 seconds. America’s Tamara Clark was third in 23.01.

Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, the reigning Olympic women’s 10,000m champion, produced the third-fastest time ever in the 1500m, clocking 3:50.30 to win, with compatriots Birke Haylom and Worknesh Mesele finishing well back in second and third.

Women’s world 400m champion Marileidy Paulino got the season under way with victory in the first event on the track. The 27-year-old, from the Dominican Republic, slowed in the closing stages but eased over the line in 50.08 seconds, ahead of Poland’s Natalia Kaczmarek, with the United States’ Britton Wilson in third.

Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn overcame a poor start to edge a thrilling women’s 100m hurdles, timing her charge to the line to perfection to win in 12.45 seconds, ahead of Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton by four hundredths of a second.

Canada’s Marco Arop won the men’s 800m in 1:43.61, pipping Kenya’s Wycliffe Kinyamal by just five hundredths, while Great Britain’s Ethan Hussey was 10th.

Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma, Olympic silver medallist in the 3,000m steeplechase, won the men’s 5,000m, dipping under 13 minutes to finish in 12:58.96 in his first completed elite race at the distance.

The night ended with victory for world 60m indoor champion Christian Coleman in the men’s 100m, as he pulled away in the middle part of the race to win in 10.13secs, ahead of American team-mate Fred Kerley and Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake.