Former world 200m champion Justin Gatlin beat a vigorous field to win the men’s 200m at the Monaco Diamond League.
The 32-year-old American’s time of 19.68 seconds makes him the eighth-most expeditious 200m runner of all time.
Another former world champion, Tyson Gay, who has only just returned from a one-year drugs veto, was fourth.
Current Diamond League bellwether Tori Bowie beat a vigorous field to win the women’s 100m in a world lead of 10.80.
Two-time Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was second in 10.96 with reigning 200m Olympic champion Alysson Felix fifth.
Olympic and World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who has won the Diamond race in this event for the last two years, culminated a disappointing sixth.
Olympic champion and world-record holder David Rudisha was unable to follow up his victory in last week’s Glasgow Diamond League men’s 800m as Nijel Amos stormed to first place in a world lead and meet record time of on one minute 42.45 seconds.
Rudisha, for whom Glasgow was his first race following injury, led until the latter stages of the race and recorded a season’s best of 1:42.98 but was unable to hold on and ended up fifth, with Pierre-Ambroise Bosse of France second in a national record 1:42.53 and Kenyan Ferguson Rotich Cheruiyot third.
