On an afternoon when Sir Mo Farah ran and won his final track race on British soil, Qatar’s high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim produced the stand-out performance at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Diamond League in Birmingham.

A week after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London, the season’s focus moves to Birmingham where a host of newly minted gold medallists will compete tomorrow in the 12^th Diamond League meeting of the season.

On the final day of an International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships that have produced a succession of surprise results, the last two field event golds in the men’s high jump and women’s discus went to the disciplines’ undisputed, pre-eminent performers - Mutaz Essa Barshim and Sandra Perković.

Olympic champions Ruth Jebet and Omar McLeod, hoping to build on their recent successes here with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London just over a month away, both finished their events limping heavily.

Bislett Games meeting organiser Steinar Hoen was left dazed with joy here tonight as all his wishes came true .

Organisers of tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo have broken with long tradition by according a men’s under-20 race the status of Dream Mile in order to showcase the prodigious talent of home runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

Germany’s Olympic javelin champion Thomas Rohler gave the opening International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha historical significance as he produced an effort of 93.90m, the furthest thrown for 20 years.

Mutaz Essa Barshim, Qatar's only Olympic medallist at Rio 2016, has received a hero's welcome on his return home.

World record attempts by Olympic champions Conseslus Kipruto - the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase winner - and Almaz Ayana - the women’s 10,000 metre gold medallist - will be among the highlights of the last International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Brussels tomorrow.

If you want a pointer as to how the athletics competition will go at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, tomorrow’s Herculis meeting at the Stade Louis II in Monaco - whose participants include Dafne Schippers, Asbel Kiprop, Mo Farah, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Caster Semenya – will offer telling information.

Mo Farah rounded off the sixth meeting in the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League series at Birmingham with the home victory that was expected over 3,000 metres in a British record of 7min 32.62sec.

The eyes of Italy’s athletics followers will be on the high jump competition at tomorrow night’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here in the Stadio Olimpico. 

South Africa’s former world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya used the opening International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) opening Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha to lower her 2016 world-leading mark and throw down a further marker of her own towards what might be a controversial victory at this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 

Olympic champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Greg Rutherford laid down impressive markers here tonight in the last International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League meeting before next month’s World Championships in Beijing.

On a special night that was supposed to belong to established names such as Mutaz Essa Barshim, Bohdan Bondarenko and Genzebe Dibaba, the 50th Anniversary running of the Bislett Games - watched by illustrious past performers such as John Walker, Ingrid Kristiansen, Roger Moens, Henry Rono, Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram - will be remembered instead for three unlikely victors in Britain’s 1500 metres runner Laura Muir, China’s high jumper Guowei Zhang and Israeli javelin thrower Marharyata Dorozhon.