Newly-crowned world 100m champion Fred Kerley led a fresh strikeforce of US sprinters into the semi-finals of the men’s 200m on Monday. Kerley won his heat in 20.17 seconds to raise the prospect of another US clean sweep, after the sprint all-rounder led Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell home in the blue riband event. 

In the absence of that duo, it was the turn of the Americans who finished second, third and fourth in the 200m at last year’s Tokyo Olympics—Kenneth Bednarek, world champion Noah Lyles and 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton—to take to the track of Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. And they didn’t disappoint, all coasting through their heats for Tuesday’s semi-final.