London Diamond League: Wins for Georgia Hunter Bell, Charlie Dobson and Morgan Lake

Britons Georgia Hunter Bell, Charlie Dobson and Morgan Lake claimed victories successful beforehand of a sell-out location assemblage of 60,000 astatine the London Diamond League.

Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell stormed wide connected the location consecutive to instrumentality triumph successful the women's 800m successful a season's champion 1 infinitesimal 56.74 seconds.

Dobson could hardly judge his triumph successful the men's 400m arsenic helium burst past the leaders - including compatriot Matthew Hudson-Smith - successful the closing stages to timepiece a idiosyncratic champion 44.14 seconds.

Lake won the women's precocious leap arsenic the lone jock to wide 1.96m successful a tract that included satellite grounds holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Olympic medallist Eleanor Patterson.

But satellite 1500m champion Josh Kerr, who had targeted his ain British record, was made to settee for 2nd arsenic helium was upstaged by Kenyan 19-year-old Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech.

Koech passed Kerr connected the wrong with 200m to spell and held connected for triumph successful 3 minutes 28.82 seconds, arsenic Kerr clocked his champion clip of the play with 3:29.37.

Former satellite champion Jake Wightman was 4th successful 3:31.58, Elliot Giles finished successful sixth (3:32.51) and Neil Gourley 10th (3:33.69) - but George Mills fell aft being tripped connected the last lap.

There was besides a second-place decorativeness for Dina Asher-Smith, who pipped chap Briton Amy Hunt down wide victor Julien Alfred successful the women's 200m.

The stellar programme astatine the location of truthful galore iconic moments astatine the 2012 Olympics came connected the aforesaid time the UK authorities confirmed it volition enactment the city's bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships.

In the lack of Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, who continues to marque her mode backmost from a hamstring injury, grooming spouse Hunter Bell starred arsenic she erstwhile again displayed her fantabulous finishing velocity implicit the two-lap event.

The 31-year-old is continuing her breathtaking advancement successful her archetypal play arsenic a full-time athlete, having near her occupation successful cybersecurity aft completing a spectacular emergence from obscurity to the Olympic podium past year.

She drew large cheers from an energetic assemblage arsenic she timed her effort to perfection, replicating the stylish 800m triumph she achieved astatine past month's Stockholm Diamond League.

Jemma Reekie placed sixth successful 1:58.76 and Laura Muir, rebuilding aft an injury-disrupted commencement to the year, was 10th successful 2:00.95.

There was possibly nary amended absorption than that of Dobson, who appeared stunned aft coming from seemingly obscurity with 100m remaining to bushed world-class competition.

Olympic and satellite metallic medallist Hudson-Smith crossed the enactment 2nd successful 44.27, up of South Africa's Zakithi Nene, who has tally the fastest clip successful the satellite this twelvemonth with 43.76.

"I don't cognize what happened," Dobson told BBC Sport.

"I got to the past 100m and I felt great. I was catching everyone. I thought to myself, if I conscionable excavation truly heavy past I tin get them - and I did!"

Having already clinched triumph successful the women's precocious leap with her second-time clearance astatine 1.96m, Lake thrived nether the regard of the full assemblage and went adjacent to breaking her British grounds with 3 coagulated attempts astatine 2m.

While Kerr could not present the record-breaking finale helium hoped to, helium volition instrumentality lessons from his nonaccomplishment to Koech and has clip connected his broadside with 2 months until his satellite rubric defence successful Tokyo.

"I should beryllium winning those, truthful I americium frustrated," said Kerr.

"I truly wanted to amusement up and triumph for this assemblage but each I tin committedness to them present is successful a fewer months' clip I volition beryllium battling for a golden medal for this country.

"I'll bring it location and past everyone tin spot what we were moving towards today."

Former 200m satellite champion Asher-Smith overhauled Hunt arsenic she crossed the enactment successful 22.25 seconds, with the ever-improving Hunt clocking 22.31 to acceptable a caller idiosyncratic best, beating her satellite under-18 grounds of 22.42 six years ago.

But Olympic 100m champion Alfred proved a people above, signaling the joint-ninth fastest 200m of each clip arsenic she stormed to triumph successful 21.71.

Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke was 4th successful 22.52, with Daryll Neita sixth successful 22.69.

Jamaica's Oblique Seville claimed a stunning triumph successful the men's 100m, obliterating a line-up featuring Olympic champion Noah Lyles by finishing successful 9.86 secs.

Lyles, whose play has been disrupted by injury, finished 2nd successful 10.00, up of Britain's satellite bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes (10.02).

World indoor 60m champion Jeremiah Azu was sixth successful 10.11, up of Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo (10.12) and rising prima Louie Hinchliffe (10.21).

Elsewhere, Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi overhauled satellite champion Marco Arop successful a thrilling decorativeness to the men's 800m.

Kenyan Wanyonyi clocked a gathering grounds 1:42.00 to borderline his Canadian rival, up of Britain's Max Burgin who ran a idiosyncratic champion 1:42.36 to decorativeness 3rd and regenerate Steve Cram arsenic the 3rd fastest British antheral successful history.

He stands down Sebastian Coe and 2023 satellite bronze medallist Ben Pattison, who crossed the enactment successful 10th (1:46.08) down compatriot Ethan Hussey, who ran a idiosyncratic champion 1:44.30.

Talented British 19-year-old Innes Fitzgerald smashed Zola Budd's European under-20 5,000m grounds by moving 14:39.56.

That saw her decorativeness 11th down Hannah Nuttall, who besides recorded a idiosyncratic champion with 14:39.48 - arsenic did Megan Keith (14:43.80).

Revee Walcott-Nolan was the archetypal Briton location successful the women's mile successful 4:19.16, up of Erin Wallace (4:20.44) and Katie Snowden (4:24.71), arsenic Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay triumphed successful 4:11.88

Dutch prima Femke Bol cruised to triumph successful the women's 400m hurdles successful 52.10secs, with Britain's Lina Nielsen sixth successful 55.04.

Molly Caudery placed 5th successful the women's rod vault aft failing to spell wide with 3 attempts astatine 4.73m, arsenic New Zealand's Olivia McTaggart won connected countback arsenic 1 of 4 athletes to wide that height.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson was eighth successful the women's agelong leap with a champion leap of 6.48m arsenic she continues to physique towards defending her satellite heptathlon rubric aboriginal this year.

Continuing her betterment from an Achilles rupture past year, European indoor champion Jazmin Sawyers recorded a champion leap measuring 6.63m.

Lawrence Okoye was 3rd successful the men's discus with a champion propulsion of 67.24m, portion Samuel Khogali leapt 7.19m for seventh successful the men's agelong jump.

In summation to the Diamond League events, the London Athletics Meet besides featured Para and nationalist events.

Paris 2024 golden medallist Ben Sandilands won the men's Para 1500m successful 3:48.95, portion Sophie Hahn and Zak Skinner claimed wins implicit 100m.

Hahn took triumph successful the women's contention successful 12.89 secs, portion Skinner edged Thomas Young successful 11.01.