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Tobi Amusan of Nigeria has broken the African record in the 100m women's hurdle with a time of 12.41 seconds.
At the Diamond League meet in Paris, France on Saturday, Amusan broke her own record with her third best run of the season.
Amusan won the Paris Diamond League with a timing of 12.41 seconds, moving her up to third in the world in 2022, just behind World Leader Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.37s) and Alaysha Johnson (12.41s) (12.40s).
Amusan is the first Nigerian to win a Diamond League title.
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In September 2021, she won the Diamond League in Zurich, where she also achieved a new personal best of 12.42 seconds.
The 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medalist just missed out on a podium finish in the Olympics, finishing fourth behind Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico and Kendra Harrison of the United States, and Tapper has since competed in four events.
On August 21, 2021, she won the Citius Meeting in Bern, Switzerland, in 12.80 seconds, and finished fourth in the Paris Diamond League seven days later.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce pounded home her role as a world championship favorite by winning the 100m at the Paris Diamond League meeting on Saturday, equaling her world best time this year.
The experienced Jamaican sprinter won in 10.67 seconds in the city's Charlety stadium, despite the oppressive 30-degree heat.
The 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce, a two-time Olympic winner in the 100m, equaled her best time for 2022, which she recorded in Nairobi in May.
The triumph demonstrated the nine-time world champion's threat to defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah at the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, next month.
Both will compete in the Jamaican trials next week.
“I feel very good, technically it was very good. The goal is always to be on top technically, then the lap times follow,” said Fraser-Pryce.
She added that "Physically I was good too. Running 10.6, only a few sprinters can achieve that."
Daryll Neita of the United Kingdom was second in 10.99 seconds on Saturday, with Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast third in 11.01 seconds.
Fraser-Pryce, the defending champion in the 100m, has already qualified for Eugene.
However, she said she has “not decided yet” on whether she will attempt the sprint double in Oregon.
“We’ll see if I’m ready to do it physically and mentally,” she had said on Friday.
Andre De Grasse returned to his preferred 200m in the French capital after a 10.05 second performance in the 100m in Oslo on Thursday.
However, the Olympic gold medalist from Canada finished fourth in a race won by South African Luxolo Adams in 19.82 seconds on Saturday.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine won the high jump with a season-best 2.01m. She was a silver medalist at the 2019 world championships and a bronze medalist at the 2020 Olympics.
Mahuchikh won on her second attempt, bettering her season-best 2.0m from the Eugene Diamond League tournament.
She tried three times at 2.05m and failed all three occasions, a centimetre higher than her career best.
Iryna Gerashchenko (1.98m) and Yuliya Levchenko (1.98m) finished second and third, respectively, on an all-Ukraine podium (1.95m).
Bahrain's Winfred Mutile Yavi set a new season best in the 3,000m steeplechase.
The 22-year-old won in 8:56.55 seconds, earning her the fourth best performer in the discipline's history.
Ethiopia's Sembo Alemayehu, who is only 17 years old, finished in 9min 09.19sec behind her.
Devon Allen of the United States, who hopes to mix his sporting career between American football and athletics, came close to breaking the world record in the 110m hurdles last week, winning in 13.16 seconds.
His performance was just 48 hours after he ran 13.22 seconds in Oslo.