De Grasse sprints to 100-metre victory in Oslo

McPherson ran a measured race, pushing in the final 100 metres to take the event from the United States’ Natasha Hastings, 51.38, and compatriot Novlene Williams-Mills, 51.66. “Next should be definitely a sub-10 seconds”. Not a ideal one. “I like both sprints, but I think the 200m is better because my start is not as good in the 100m”.

“In these conditions, to run under 22 seconds is very special for me”, said Schippers after her performance at a cool and wet Bislett Stadium.

“I really wanted the win today and the plan came together, it worked”.

“It was just another race getting ready for the national championships”.

“Every race is different”. “I don’t miss specific things”, she said of the heptathlon.

Dutch World champion Dafne Schippers won the women’s 200m in 21.93 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year.

Only Zola Budd, with her 4:17.57 from 1985, has ever gone quicker and Muir’s mark betters Yvonne Murray’s 4:22.64 from 1994 as she adds the Scottish mile record to the 1500m record she ran in Monaco last summer. It wasn’t as hard as this one.

Thompson had high praise for Schippers.

Turning to the July 6-10 European championships in Amsterdam, Schippers admitted she would not compete in the 200m. They had some pauses in the competition and I got even colder. “I’m very happy to be the face of the European Championships”.

Britain’s Shara Proctor produced a season’s best to finish third in the long jump at the Oslo Diamond League. Olympic 1500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria was third in 3:52.24.

The men’s 100m features up-and-coming Canadian Andre De Grasse, Ameer Webb of the U.S. and the evergreen Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis. At just 15 years of age, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the younger brother of 2012 European 1500m champion Henrik and Filip who contested the Dream Mile, ran a 1500m PB of 3:42.44. The 40-year-old was leading here up to 80m when he pulled up and hopped to the finish line with a suspected groin strain.

Canada’s Andre De Grasse was nearly handed a shock in the 100m by 40-year-old Kim Collins, who blasted out of the blocks and was leading through 60 metres before pulling up in agony with a left hamstring injury.

Athletics: Sally Pearson is yet to find the pace, coming last in a Diamond League event in preparation for the Rio Olympics.