World 1,500m and Mile record holder, Faith Kipyegon, Susan Ejore and Nelly Chepchirchir all punched tickets to the 1,500m semi-finals slated for Thursday.

Kipyegon placed fourth in her heat in a time of 4:00.74, trailing Diribe Welteji of Ethiopia (3:59.73), Briton Georgia Bell (4:00.29) and Nikki Hiltz of USA (4:00.42). Susan Ejore placed third in Heat 1, clocking 3:59.01 behind Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay (3:58.84) and Britain’s Laura Muir (3:58.91).

Meanwhile, Kenya’s 2015 world champion and 2016 Olympic silver medallist Julius Yego bettered that mark with his third effort of 85.97m, and a personal best of 85.27m saw Finland’s Toni Keranen through.

A single effort of 87.76m saw Germany’s European silver medallist Julian Weber through, and the same went for Czechia’s European champion Jakub Vadlejch, whose 85.63m bettered the qualification mark by 63cm.

Pakistan’s world silver medallist Arshad Nadeem produced the fourth best effort of the morning, 86.59m, and Brazil’s Luiz Da Silva advanced with a South American record of 85.91m.

While Chopra sailed through, another defending Olympic champion, Germany’s Malaika Mihambo, was in severe jeopardy after fouling with the first two of her three qualifying efforts in the women’s long jump, with her foot being 20cm over the board on her second effort.

But her third jump of 6.86m saw her through to Thursday’s final in convincing fashion. However, there was no progress for Serbia’s world champion Ivana Spanovic, whose best of 6.51m was only enough for 16th place.