Dina Asher-Smith runs blistering 10.87 seconds for second in Diamond League 100m

A bit too late to catch Elaine Thompson-Herah in Zurich and slightly too late in the story of a season soaked in tears. But if there’s a comfort for Dina Asher-Smith, slender as it might be, it’s that she moved again in direction of her finest kind at appreciable velocity on Thursday evening.

At a meet the place the latest hope of British working, Keely Hodgkinson, added the Diamond League 800m title to her Olympic silver medal, Asher-Smith served a belated reminder of why she went to Tokyo on such a wave of hype.

Her blistering run of 10.87sec – the third quickest 100m time of her life – put her second behind the a number of Olympic champion Thompson-Herah in the 100m remaining, and it was adopted slightly over an hour later with a third-placed end in the 200m.

Dina Asher-Smith (R) was second to Elaine Thompson-Herah (L) in the Diamond League 100m

Tokyo Olympics silver medal winner Keely Hodgkinson received the Diamond League 800m title

None of which is able to come near erasing the devastation she felt after a hamstring harm wrecked her Olympic marketing campaign, however on the very least it allowed her a flourish on the finish of a troubled marketing campaign. With a world championships subsequent summer time, she will transfer ahead with some momentum.

She stated: ‘It’s a very, actually good day. I knew that I’d be again in, not fairly regular, however as near regular as I’m going to get this 12 months. I used to be so proud of my 100m. I used to be seeking to go sub-11 and put collectively a very good race – 10.87 is nice.

‘It wasn’t essentially about occasions, it’s extra about wanting ahead and setting a optimistic mindset and optimistic step for subsequent 12 months. Obviously, the Olympics didn’t go the best way I wished nevertheless it’s carried out now.

‘I want to go into next year without any of that on my shoulders, and just push forwards to make the next three years incredible. After the few months I’ve had, I’m so completely happy, I’m undoubtedly taking that.’

Asher-Smith’s blistering 10.87 seconds wasn’t sufficient to beat Thompson-Herah’s 10.65 run

Despite matching Thompson-Herah over 50m, Asher-Smith was burnt off by the Olympic 100m and 200m champion in the second half because the Jamaican clocked 10.65sec, simply 0.16sec exterior of Florence Griffith Joyner’s controversial world file. 

Daryll Neita was fifth in 10.93sec, that means Britain had two sub-11sec runners in a race for the primary time. Even on a fast monitor, they have been two significantly spectacular performances.

After coming so shut in the previous month to catching Griffith Joyner’s file, Thompson-Herah stated: ‘This year, it was a long season with ups and downs, but next year, the world record is definitely on my mind.’

Asher-Smith came third in the 200m, well behind Namibian winner Christine Mboma (left)

The 200m saw Asher-Smith finish in 22.19sec, well down on the Namibian phenomenon Christine Mboma, the Olympic silver medallist. The 18-year-old, classified by World Athletics as an athlete with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD), clocked a staggering 21.78sec. 

Her prominence at the distance, having been prevented by the governing body’s DSD guidelines from contesting her favoured 400m, is bound to impress a return of the talk that has engulfed Caster Semenya in latest years.

Hodgkinson’s astonishing breakthrough season was wrapped up with one other main win. The 19-year-old broke off the ultimate bend to win the 800m in 1:57.98, with Jemma Reekie fourth. Hodgkinson stated: ‘To finish the season with a win like that against a world-class season, I couldn’t be happier.’

Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw was fourth in the pole vault. 

Russia’s Anzhelika Sidorova took the title with a bounce of 5.01m to grow to be solely the third girl in historical past to clear the five-metre barrier. 

Hodgkinson received the 800m in 1:57.98, with fellow Brit Jemma Reekie (proper) ending fourth