American Masai Russell missed the 100 metres hurdles world record by two-hundredths of a second and Chinese teenager Yan Ziyi recorded the second best women's javelin throw of all time at the Diamond League meet in Xiamen on Saturday.
Olympic champion Russell clocked a stunning 12.14 seconds in a comprehensive victory by .14 of a second over Nigerian Toby Amusan, whose world record of 12.12 Russell missed by a mere fraction.
Russell is now second on the all-time list in the event, and so is 18-year-old Yan in the javelin after her Asian record throw of 71.72 metres in front of a Chinese home crowd.
She is the fourth woman to throw beyond 71m and only Czech Barbora Spotakova has gone further with her world record of 72.28m.
Elsewhere at the meet, twice world champion Shericka Jackson of Jamaica dominated a star-studded women's 200m in 21.87 seconds from twice 400m Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas who clocked 22.04.
Former 100m world champion Sha'Carri Richardson of the US was fourth in 22.38.
Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala won the men's 100m in 9.94 seconds, with Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana eighth in 10.10.
Brazil's Alison dos Santos beat world record holder Karsten Warholm of Norway by one-tenth in a 400m hurdles duel of former world champions, clocking 46.72 seconds.
