Britain’s Amy Hunt continued her excellent outdoor season as she claimed silver in the 200m at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne - a week on from her historic haul of four European gold medals.
The 24-year-old finished in 22.32, edging Nigeria’s Favour Ofili in a photo finish in a race won by American Kayla White in 22.18.
There were just three-thousandths of a second between Hunt and Ofili, who appeared to be the architect of her own defeat as she turned towards the scoreboard at the line and was pipped to silver by the smallest of margins.
But there was disappointment for former world champion Shericka Jackson, who has raced lightly in 2026 as she recovers from injury. She pulled up on the bend with what appeared to be a hamstring injury, while Olympic bronze medallist Brittany Brown did not start the race.
Hunt took silver in the 100m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow before embarking on an astonishing run at the European Championships in Birmingham.
Last year’s world silver medallist won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the new 4x100m mixed relay, making her the first athlete to ever complete the quadruple in a single edition of the championships.
Elsewhere in Lausanne, world and Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis claimed another easy victory in the pole vault, setting a new meeting record of 6.21m as he took gold ahead of Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis and Australian Kurtis Marschall on Thursday night.
The Diamond League returned in Lausanne to kick off an action-packed finale to the season, with the next meeting in Silesia, Poland on Sunday before a blockbuster meet in Zurich next Thursday, where all five of the world’s biggest names in the women’s 800m are set to compete.
Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson will face off against newly crowned Commonwealth Games champion and compatriot Georgia Hunter Bell, as well as new European gold medallist Audrey Werro, world champion Lilian Odira, and 400m hurdles star Femke Broeders-Bol, who has seemingly effortlessly stepped up to the longer distance this season.
The Diamond League Finals will take place in Brussels on 4 and 5 September.