Diamond League: Sha’Carri Richardson beats Julien Alfred in Zurich

American world champion Sha’Carri Richardson gained some revenge for her Olympic defeat by St Lucia’s Julien Alfred with victory within the ladies’s 100m closing on the Diamond League assembly in Zurich.

Alfred grew to become her nation’s first Olympic medallist after profitable gold in Paris as Richardson took silver, with the St Lucian additionally triumphing within the 200m.

However American Richardson took victory in Switzerland in a robust area on Thursday, profitable in 10.84secs.

Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith – who failed to succeed in that Olympic closing – completed third, whereas compatriot Daryll Neita got here seventh.

Within the males’s 200m closing, in the meantime, Botswana’s Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo continued his sensible type to assert victory in 19.55secs as People Kenneth Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton completed second and third respectively.

The highly-anticipated males’s 1500m lived as much as the expectation with a good end as Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse beat the in-form Jakob Ingebrigtsen to assert victory.

American Nuguse completed one place forward of Ingebrigtsen, as he did in Paris, whereas Olympic champion Cole Hocker got here third.

Britain’s world champion Josh Kerr, who gained Olympic silver, needed to accept fifth place.

Within the ladies’s 800m, Britain’s Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Bell was second behind Kenya’s Mary Moraa, with GB’s Jemma Reekie in fourth.

Sweden’s Olympic champion Armand Duplantis continued his spectacular all-round type with victory within the males’s pole vault.

Success for the Swede adopted his victory in a 100m exhibition race towards 400m hurdler Karsten Warholm on Wednesday.

The penultimate Diamond League assembly – earlier than subsequent week’s two-night closing in Brussels – additionally noticed Kenyan double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet set a world main time of 14mins 9.52secs within the ladies’s 5,000m.

Chebet was not the one gold medal winner from Paris to star on the night time. Ukraine’s Olympic champion and world file holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh gained the excessive soar, American Ryan Crouser took the shot put and his compatriot Grant Holloway gained the 110m hurdles in a formidable 12.99secs.