Tebogo cruises to 100m win at Diamond League in Rome

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo stormed to an awesome triumph successful nan 100m astatine nan Rome Diamond League meet.

The Olympic 200m champion eased disconnected pinch 15m to spell and glanced backmost astatine his competitors arsenic he crossed nan statement successful 9.87 seconds.

Former world champions Christian Coleman and Fred Kerley, some of nan United States, vanished successful 2nd and 3rd pinch times of 9.92 and 9.95 respectively.

Great Britain's Jeremiah Azu was eighth successful 10.17 arsenic location favourite and Tokyo Olympics champion Marcell Jacobs came past successful nan nine-man field.

Daryll Neita, a metallic medallist successful nan 4x100m for Team GB astatine nan Paris Olympics, was 3rd successful nan women's 200m, clocking 22.46, arsenic American Brittany Brown won successful 22.00.

Bahrain's Winfred Yavi ran nan 2nd fastest clip ever successful nan women's 3000m steeplechase, a superb 8 minutes and 44.39 seconds.

The 24-year-old, who won Paris golden successful an Olympic record, said: "I looked astatine nan clip aft nan title and I went, 'oh, no!'.

"Í was really expecting that grounds and I was going for it. I decidedly consciousness I should break it and I judge it will happen."

There was besides a world-leading clip nan women's 100m hurdles pinch Jamaica's Ackera Nugent winning successful a nationalist grounds 12.24.

Meanwhile, three-time Olympic champion Ryan Crouser group a gathering grounds of 22.79m successful nan men's changeable put. The American hit Italy's Leonardo Fabbri into 2nd place.