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, she won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the new 4x100m mixed relay in Birmingham, making her the first athlete to ever complete the quadruple in a single edition of the championships.
Later on Friday new European champion and home favourite Audrey Werro continued a sensational unbeaten outdoor season as she won a thrilling edition of the women’s 800m, breaking rival Keely Hodgkinson’s meeting record in Lausanne with victory in 1:55.33.
Pacemaker Myrte van der Schoot led the athletes around the first lap in a blistering 54.64s, leaving Werro unable to hold on to world record pace despite the roar of her home crowd on the second lap.
400m hurdles star Femke Broeders-Bol finished second in a new national record of 1:55.41, having run Werro close in a nail-biting final straight, with the Dutchwoman continuing to improve having stepped up from her usual distance this season. Ethiopia’s rising star, 18-year-old Saida Tsehaye, was third in a personal best time of 1:56.92.
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.
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo looked to be in cruise control in the final few metres of the 200m as he won in 19.87, with Sinesipho Dambile second in 19.98 and Makanakaishe Charamba third in 20.14. Britain’s Zharnel Hughes was fifth in 20.33.
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 Hodgkinson will face off against newly crowned Commonwealth Games champion and compatriot Georgia Hunter Bell, as well as Werro, world champion Lilian Odira – who was seventh in Lausanne – and Broeders-Bol.
The Diamond League Finals will take place in Brussels on 4 and 5 September.
