The exuberant Burkina Faso athlete, who extended his own African triple jump record with 17.66m to win world bronze last year and who set an African indoor record of 17.77m earlier this year, took an early lead in the 10th Gyulai Memorial meeting at Szekesfehervar with a second-round effort of 17.40m before extending it with his fourth attempt.

Taylor, who has proven through the years that he is one of the most competitive of athletes, managed 17.34m with his fourth attempt and final attempt, but had to settle for a season’s best in what was effectively his first international meeting of the season following his recent run at the National Championships in Austria, where he currently lives and studies.

That also left Taylor clear of his old rival and fellow 18m-plus jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo of Portugal, who finished third with 17.28m.

Noah Lyles ran Zango close as the outstanding performer of the night as he won the 100m in 10.05sec and then completed the double over the distance at which he won the world title in Doha last year, the 200m, in 20.13.

In the shorter sprint the 23-year-old from Gainesville, Florida pulled clear of a quality field over the final 30 metres, with Britain’s Adam Gemili taking second place in 10.28 ahead of Lyles’ compatriot Elijah Hall-Thompson, who clocked 10.31.

Gemili also doubled up over 200m and finished third in a season’s best of 20.56 as Eseosa Desalu of Italy took second place in 20.35, also a season’s best.

In the women’s 200m there was unexpected defeat for the Dutch world champion of 2015 and 2017, Dafne Schippers, whose time of 22.94 was enough to beat Switzerland’s world bronze medallist Mujinga Kambundji, who ran a season’s best of 23.25, but still left her behind Lynna Irby of the United States, who ran 22.55.

Nadine Visser maintained her dominant form in the 100m hurdles as she won her fifth consecutive race, equalling the 2020 world-best time of 12.68 she set in winning at the opening Gold meeting of the Continental Tour in Turku earlier this month.

The Dutch athlete finished clear of home hurdler Luca Kozák, but the latter had the consolation of setting a new national record of 12.71.

Elvira Herman of Belarus, the 23-year-old European champion, was third in 12.96, with Sharika Nelvis of the US, who has a best of 12.34, sixth in 13.09.

Visser’s fellow countrywoman Femke Bol, the 20-year-old who has run the fastest 400m hurdles of the year, 53.79, was also in fluent form as she finished well clear of the field to win in 54.67.

In the men’s 110m hurdles, US world champion Grant Holloway - fourth in last Friday’s opening Diamond League meeting of the season in Monaco - indicated that his form is heading in the right direction as, after a brilliant start, he led virtually all the way before being beaten on the line by the renowned dip of Spain’s Orlando Ortega, 13.21 to 13.22.

Ortega’s winning time of 13.11 in Monaco tops this year’s list.

There was relative disappointment for Britain’s world indoor champion Andy Pozzi, who equalled his personal best of 13.14 in coming second in Monaco, as he finished sixth in 13.60.

Hungary’s 2017 world bronze medallist, Balázs Baji, back after an injury lay-off, was eighth and last in 13.86.

The women’s long jump turned out to be a hugely competitive event, with Belarus' Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova, who will forever be known as the athlete who turned gold into bronze at the 2011 World Championships when her pony-tail made a mark in the sand behind what would otherwise have been a winning effort, finished top with a best of 6.77m.

Ukraine’s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk came within one centimetre of that distance with her penultimate effort.

Sweden’s world discus champion Daniel Ståhl secured his 11th consecutive win, once again beating 2017 world champion Andrius Gudžius with a best of 67.31m, with the Lithuanian second on 67.08.

The effort by world 800m champion Donavan Brazier in the concluding event to beat the 1986 world 600m best of 1min 12.81sec set by fellow American Johnny Gray fell short as he finished in 1:15.07.

A scream of relief made it clear how important victory in the men’s 400m was to American Kahmari Montgomery, as he finished in a season’s best of 45.50 to beat Lyles’ younger brother Josephus, who had been hoping for a sub-45 clocking but ran 46.08 on the night.

The women’s 400m was won in 52.09 by the US athlete who finished one place off the podium at last year’s World Championships in Doha, Wadeline Jonathas, with Lieke Klaver of The Netherlands second, 0.02 behind.

David Kendziera of the US clocked 50.00 in the 400m hurdles to beat Estonia’s Rasmus Mägi, who clocked 50.18.

Poland’s European champion and triple world bronze medallist in the hammer, Wojciech Nowicki, reached 78.07m to finish 7cm clear of home favourite Bence Halász.

Poland’s four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek could only manage fourth place with 76.08.

The women’s hammer event was won by Alexandra Tavernier of France, whose 73.09m was almost overtaken by home thrower Malwina Kopron, who managed 72.68 with her final effort.