Dina Asher-Smith sets sights on World Championships after trailing in Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's wake at Anniversary Games

In a season geared towards success at the 2019 World Championships, British sprinter sensation Dina Asher-Smith knows everything right now is about doing the right things. And failing that, it is about saying the right things.

On Sunday, Asher-Smith, winner of triple European gold last year, was provided with another chance to enhance her world medal credentials as she lined up against two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and two-time world champion Dafne Schippers in the 100m at the Anniversary Games.

One of them was dispatched - although not exactly as a direct result of Asher-Smith, rather a day to forget for Schippers who crept into the final as one of the fastest losers before, eager to make amends, false-starting and being sent on her way, tail between her legs.

Fraser-Pryce, as has been the case time and time again, was in a league of her own, however, stretching away from the field in 10.78 seconds and delivering a subtle, yet timely, reminder to Asher-Smith, nine years her junior, that if the Brit wants to start chipping away at her seven world titles in Doha, she will have to dig deeper than ever before.

Asher-Smith produced one of the finest runs of her career to finish second in 10.92, fractionally slower than the 10.91 clocked in the heats to equal her season’s best, and seven tenths off her personal best.

It also continued an impressive level of consistency this season from the 23-year-old who has not finished off the podium in six 100m and 200m Diamond League meets.

And while disappointed not to deliver a victory for her home crowd at the London stadium, Asher-Smith was quick to point out the bigger picture to anyone wanting to pounce on her finishing second best to her Jamaican rival.

“I came here wanting to win my home Diamond League, wanting to run a 10.8 but to run two low sub 10s to have placed really highly in that kind of field, which could have been a world or Olympic final, I’m really proud of myself,” she said.

“I wouldn’t say I was frustrated because when you’ve got such high calibre women it makes you raise your game as well. "It’s going to be a really good World Championships, really entertaining for all the spectators and all the people that love to watch and engage but it’s also going to be a good competition among the top sprint women."

“We’ve planned it so we work backwards from the World Championships. I’ll just keep training and working harder to make sure I'm in the best shape I can be."

Fraser-Pryce, who missed the 2017 World Championships after giving birth to her son, will bid to add to her five individual world titles later this year. But she acknowledged the challenge being provided by the likes of Asher-Smith and others.

“To be honest, female sprinting is at a height I have never seen it before. It’s just remarkable,” she said. “Dina had two solid clockings today in less than one hour. I look forward to having more competition with athletes like Dina who are aggressive and passionate about what they do.

"For me, I am equally delighted in my efforts so far and I’m still amazing myself. For this year I’m not satisfied but I’m so happy and feeling so much gratitude at what has transpired so far. To be pushing female sprinting,  not just for me as a woman but as a mother, it’s remarkable."

The London crowd did have one British individual winner to cheer on day two of the Anniversary Games on Sunday, albeit in a non Diamond League event as Lynsey Sharp following fellow Scottish middle-distance star Laura Muir, winner of Saturday's 1500m, took victory in the 800m.

The 29-year-old finished eighth in the same stadium when the World Championships were staged two years ago and she dug deep in the final 100m to record a season's best time of 1:58.61 ahead of next month's trials in Birmingham next month.

"Everyone has been saying how fast the track is so it was good to make the most of it today with a season's best," said Sharp, after building on her fourth-place finish in the recent Diamond League in Monaco. "I'm happy with my time. Last week was good but it was so nice to back myself up here as well."

There was disappointment in the women's long jump, however, with Brits Lorraine Ugen and Shara Proctor unable to trouble the podium. Ugen was the highest home hope in fifth with a season's best of 6.62m behind Malaika Mihambo of Germany with a meeting record 7.02m. Proctor, the world silver medallist in 2015, failed to record a legal mark while Johnson-Thompson, who was competing in the long jump as she continued her World heptathlon preparations, managed a best mark of 6.47m in seventh.