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Thompson-Herah clocks 10.71, Bol wins 400m hurdles in 52.81 and Simbine breaks African 100m record with 9.84

The 2021 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series continues on Monday and Tuesday (5-6) with the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar, Hungary.

Many events at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – on Monday and Tuesday (5-6) will offer a sneak preview of what may happen at the Olympic Games in a few weeks’ time.

Poland’s throws legends impress on home soil, while 18-year-old Christine Mboma runs world-leading 48.54.

German star Johannes Vetter grabbed the headlines by throwing 92.14m in the men’s javelin on a cool and rainy evening at the Spitzen Leichtathletik meeting.

Hammer phenomenon Anita Wlodarczyk has ruled out an 80-metre throw this year, but still believes a third Olympic gold is within her grasp.

With exactly one month to go until the first athletics events of the Tokyo 2020 Games, Olympic countdown will be well and truly on for the third edition of the Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz on Wednesday 30 June.

Germany’s Johannes Vetter made his comeback by throwing 93.59m to win the javelin at the Kuortane Games – a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting – in Finland on Saturday.

Mondo Duplantis, it seems, can’t catch a break.

Global champions Dalilah Muhammad, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Jacob Kilpimo are among the latest stars who have confirmed their participation at the Gyulai Memorial – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in Szekesfehervar on 6 July.

World indoor record-holder Gudaf Tsegay and European indoor champion Patryk Dobek claimed middle-distance victories at the Orlen Janusz Kusocinski Memorial – a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting – in Chorzow on Sunday (20).

The triple jump provided the main highlights of the Meeting Madrid, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, in the Spanish capital on Saturday (19).