Ben Pattison moved second behind Sebastian Coe on the British males’s 800m all-time record as Monaco hosted the penultimate Diamond League assembly earlier than the Paris Olympics.
World bronze medallist Pattison, 22, ran a private greatest of 1 minute 42.27 seconds for fifth place in a high-quality race.
It moved him above Steve Cram and leaves Coe – who ran a then-world document 1:41.73 in 1981 – as the one British man to run the two-lap occasion quicker.
Dina Asher-Smith completed third within the ladies’s 100m in 10.99 seconds, as coaching accomplice Julien Alfred, of St Lucia, took victory in 10.85secs from American Tamari Davis.
Britain’s world indoor champion Molly Caudery cleared 4.83m for third within the ladies’s pole vault, gained by Australia’s world champion Nina Kennedy with a better of 4.88m.
Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen produced a press release efficiency within the males’s 1500m, clocking a European document 3:26.73 as he builds in the direction of his Olympic title defence and a showdown with world champion Josh Kerr.
Neil Gourley, who will contest that occasion at Paris 2024 alongside fellow Britons Kerr and George Mills, was fifth in a season’s greatest 3:30.65 and Elliot Giles completed thirteenth (3:40.72).
Australian Jessica Hull set a ladies’s world document within the hardly ever run 2,000m, clocking a sensational 5:19.70 simply 5 days after she completed runner-up behind Religion Kipyegon’s record-breaking 1500m run in Paris.
Melissa Courtney-Bryant, who missed out on an Olympic place, was second in a British document 5:26.08, whereas within the ladies’s 5,000m Hannah Nuttall was 14th in 15:37.21.
The ultimate Diamond League assembly earlier than the Paris 2024 Video games takes place in London on Saturday, 20 July.
