The inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship began in Budapest with a glitzy, redesigned format featuring a pink sandpit, a black infield, augmented-reality graphics and a record $10m (£7.4m) prize pot, as World Athletics president Lord Coe seeks to reshape the sport's future. Despite the new spectacle, pole vault star Armand Duplantis remained the dominant figure, having already been crowned the event's inaugural champion and claiming a $150,000 (£110,000) share of the prize money, even though he narrowly failed to break the world record at 6.32m.

Friday's opening session delivered eight finals in three hours, with wins for stars including Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Masai Russell, while Duplantis also had an entertaining battle with Greek rival Emmanouil Karalis. The United States' mixed 4x100m relay team were the first to lift the new trophy, winning in 39.64 seconds and sharing $80,000 (£59,000), with Great Britain finishing third in 40.26. Britain's Jazmin Sawyers took silver in the long jump with 6.78m following her recovery from an Achilles injury, and Keely Hodgkinson qualified fastest for Saturday's 800m final as several British athletes, including Georgia Hunter Bell and Matthew Hudson-Smith, prepare to compete for the sport's newest title.