DOHA — A pair of world-leading marks from Team USATF stars highlighted five wins by American athletes at the first Diamond League meet of the season Friday at the Qatar Sports Club. World 100m champion Fred Kerley had Olympic and World Championships 200m silver medalist Kenny Bednarek to his inside in the men's 200m, coming off the bend a full stride behind after Bednarek's storming curve. Steadily gaining ground in the final 50m, Kerley eased past to win in a season best 19.92 in front of Bednarek's 20.11 season best. Kyree King raced to fourth in 20.29, also a season best, while world 400m champion Michael Norman was eighth in 20.65. With authority, Sha'Carri Richardson breezed through the women's 100m to win with a world-leading 10.76. TeeTee Terry placed fourth in 11.07, while Teahna Daniels was sixth in a season best of 11.18, just ahead of 2022 relay gold medalists Melissa Jefferson and Abby Steiner who rounded out the intensely competitive race just .01 second later. One of the strongest and deepest fields in the meet saw all three World Championships podium athletes from Oregon22 in action, including gold medalist Katie Moon and silver medalist Sandi Morris. Both women were clear through their first two heights before Moon required two tries at 4.63m/15-2.25, a height Morris cleared first time. Moon then went over 4.71m/15-5.5 easily on her first attempt, as did Morris, but Morris knocked the bar down on her opening try at 4.76m/15-7.25 after seeing Moon go over. Morris passed on her remaining two attempts and she and Moon both missed initial tries at an outdoor world-leading 4.81m/15-9.25. Moon sailed over that height on her second effort to win as Morris ended up third behind Tina Sutej of Slovenia. Bridget WIlliams was sixth at 4.55m/14-11. American record holder Rai Benjamin put a stride gap on the rest of the field by the first barrier in the men's 400m hurdles, but CJ Allen kept him in his sights down the back straight. Those two were very close at the eighth hurdle, and as Benjamin had to stretch his stride coming into the final barrier Allen kept his rhythm and the duo fought it out to the line. Benjamin won in 47.78, just off his world-leading 47.74, while Allen clocked a lifetime best of 47.93 for second. It was Allen's first time to dip under 48 seconds. Khallifah Rosser took fourth in 49.25, a season best, and World Championships bronze medalist Trevor Bassitt was fifth in 49.52 Seven heights, seven clearances. That was the report card for JuVaughn Harrison in the men's high jump, where he had no misses on the way to a 2.32m/7-7.25 win over local favorite Mutaz Essa Barshim. Harrison, who set the U.S. lead with a 2.33m/7-7.75 to win the Texas Relays on April 1, picked up his second career Diamond League high jump win, and Shelby McEwen was fifth at 2.18m/7-1.75. A trio of American stars that included 2019 world champion Nia Ali lined up against Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico in the women's 100m hurdles, and all four stayed in contention for the win through the ninth barrier. Camacho-Quinn started to ease away off the final hurdle and won in 12.48, with Alaysha Johnson second in a season best of 12.66 and Ali third in 12.69. Tonea Marshall was fifth in 12.79. In the women's 400m, Shamier Little went out hard, as is her style, and had an early lead over 2022 World Championships silver medalist Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic. Those two came off the final bend almost even before Paulino started to draw away down the stretch to win in 50.51 with Little second in 50.84. 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Clayton Murphy was fourth in the men's 800m in a season best 1:47.96. Midway through the second lap in the women's 3,000m steeplechase, Emma Coburn took a fall after going over a barrier on the backstretch, and Val Constien also went down at a subsequent water jump. Coburn was able to get back into the running but with a vast gap to make up, and she ended up 10th in 9:29.41, the fastest time by an American this season. Cory McGee was 10th in the women's 1,500m in a season best 4:06.03. In other field event action, U.S. leader Sam Mattis had a best of 64.69m/212-3 in round five to take third in the men's discus. On his first attempt, USATF indoor champion Donald Scott rode a +2.5 breeze out to 16.81m/55-2 in the men's triple jump for eighth place. Two-time Olympic gold medalist and four-time world champion Christian Taylor was ninth with a wind-aided best of 16.53m/54-2.75. Curtis Thompson was eighth in the men's javelin with a best of 74.13m/243-2. The Diamond League's next stop is at Rabat, Morocco, on May 28. Photo Credit: Francois Nel/Getty Images