The 67th edition of the Hanzekovic track and field meeting featured a few world champions, including pole vault champion American Sam Kendricks, Croatia's Perkovic and the shot putter, Tomas Walsh of New Zealand, who won the third Ivan Ivancic Memorial in Zagreb on Monday.
In the 400m discipline, the winner was American Gil Roberts who broke the meeting's record, whereas Isaac Makwala of Botswana was the second in this race.
During the meeting, Men Events were races: 100, 400, 3000, 110H, 400H, and pole vault, long jump as well as shot put, whereas Women Events were 100, 800, 3000 steeplechase, 100H, and high jump, triple jump, discus throw and javelin throw.
In front of the packed stands, the best Croatian female javelin thrower, Sara Kolak finished the competition as the second behind the winner, Canadian Elisabeth Gleadle.
The audience was enthralled by two throws above 70 metres by discus thrower Perkovic who won this discipline.
According to a report on the IAAF World Challenge website, "the performance of the night on the track came courtesy of Norah Jeruto in the 3000m steeplechase."
"From the moment the 21-year-old took over from the pacesetter with four laps to go, she let loose to wage a serious race against the clock. One lap later she was five seconds ahead of her nearest pursuer, a margin she doubled over the penultimate lap. Her tear continued over the final lap before she powered across the line in 9:04.56, only marginally slower than the lifetime best of 9:03.70 she clocked in Berlin just over 48 hours earlier. She won by more than 15 seconds over compatriots Daisy Jepkemei and Joan Chepkemoi, whose 9:19.68 and 9:20.22 runs were lifetime bests."
In the 100m, former world champion Yohan Blake notched a confidence-boosting victory in 10.05, well clear of Michael Rodgers, second in 10.14 and Asafa Powell, third in 10.16. Blessing Okagbare prevailed in the women's race, clocking 11.14 (+1.0 m/s), well clear of Briton Dina Asher-SMith who clocked 11.23.