The men’s 200m at the Prefontaine Classic on 30 May, the next leg of the IAAF Diamond League, will feature five men with PBs faster than 20 seconds.

Athletes have been arriving in Doha for several days ahead of the first IAAF Diamond League meeting of 2014 and several of them who will compete on Friday in the Qatari capital faced the media at a series of ‘press points’ on Wednesday (7).

Reigning world and Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will kick off her 2014 IAAF Diamond League campaign at the Doha 2014 meeting on 9 May, organisers announced on Sunday (16).

Usain Bolt completed a fourth global championship sprint double in five years when he won the 200m in the Luzhniki Stadium on Saturday night to add to his doubles in Beijing 2008, Berlin 2009 and London 2012.

Adam Gemili, the reigning World junior champion in the 100m, underlined the soundness of his decision to focus on the 200m at these World Championships when he ran the first sub-20 second time of his life in the semi-finals on Friday night.