Hunt runs season's best to take third in Diamond League 200m

Great Britain's Amy Hunt ran a season's best in the women's 200m at the final Diamond League event of the year as she took third place in Brussels.

Hunt's time of 22.16 was outstripped by race winner - and reigning Olympic 100m champion - Julien Alfred of St Lucia (21.79) and America's Kayla White (22.00).

Another Brit, Success Eduan, came seventh of the eight runners after clocking 23.06 in Belgium.

Hunt was the poster girl of the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham this summer with her four gold medals and bubbly personality winning her legions of fans.

The 24-year-old topped the podium individually in the 100m and 200m in the Midlands, while she won gold as part of the women's and mixed 4x100m relays.

Elsewhere in Brussels on Friday night, European 400m men's gold medalist Matthew Hudson-Smith, of Great Britain, finished fifth in his event.

Sweden's pole vault world record-holder Armand Duplantis was forced to pull out of the Diamond League final, withdrawing with back tightness a week before the inaugural World ‌Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest.

Duplantis' agent Daniel Wessfeldt told Swedish media: "He ‌has felt something in his back that has spread down into his legs. He felt ⁠that he did not ​want to continue."