The Americas quartet boasted four of the six fastest women in the world this year including the first two finishers in the individual 400m on Saturday, Francena McCorory and Novlene Williams-Mills.

US record-holder Emma Coburn beat her arch rival, world leader Hiwot Ayalew, to take eight points for Americas in the first track event of day two, avenging her defeat from two months ago when the two met at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Glasgow.

Maria Kuchina was looking to end her 2014 competition schedule in the same manner in which she had started it: on top of the world.

World leader and Diamond Race winner Jairus Birech finished off his stellar steeplechase season with another victory in the stadium where he won at the African Championships last month, clocking 8:13.18 to finish ahead of USA s Evan Jager.

This weekend s most dominant performance on the track came in the penultimate individual race courtesy of Almaz Ayana in the women s 5000m.

Anita Wlodarczyk kept the women s hammer title firmly in Europe s hands after her dominant victory that kicked off the field event action on day two at Le Grand Stade in Marrakech.