LOS ANGELES, Feb 18, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - DeAnna Price delivered a world best of 26.02 meters to win the women's weight throw on Friday at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships while world 200m champion Noah Lyles advanced easily in the 60m.

Price, the 2019 outdoor hammer throw world champion, twice broke the old mark of 25.60 set by fellow American Gwen Berry at the 2017 US meet.

Price, 29, broke Berry's mark with an effort of 25.77m in the third round then shattered her own mark by reaching 26.02 in the fifth round.

Reigning world outdoor hammer throw champion Brooke Andersen was second in 24.97.

Lyles reached Saturday's 60m semi-finals by winning his first-round heat in 6.60 seconds.

Lyles, the two-time reigning 200 world champion who took a bronze medal in the event at Tokyo, won the Boston Indoor Grand Prix in a personal best of 6.51 two weeks ago.

He was disqualified for a false start at last week's Millrose Games.

Lyles had the third-best overall time among qualifiers after Brandon Carnes and J.T. Smith went 1-2 in their heat in 6.59.

Vashti Cunningham, the 2016 world champion, won her seventh consecutive US indoor high jump crown and matched her personal best by clearing 2.00m.

The 25-year-old daughter of former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham has also won five US outdoor titles.

Tara Davis Woodhall, sixth at the Tokyo Olympics, won her first US women's long jump crown with a leap of 6.99m, a world season's best.

Donald Scott captured his fifth US indoor triple jump title by leaping 16.96. He also owns two outdoor US crowns in the event.

Steve Bastien won the heptatlon with 6,012 points, edging Will Daniels by 66 after winning the concluding 1,000 in 2:44.50 with Daniels fourth in 2:53.93.

Daniel Haugh won the men's weight throw at 25.44m.

Valerie Constien won the women's 3,000 in 8:48.29, edging Whittni Morgan by .13 of a second, while Samuel Prakel took the men's 3,000 in 8:12.46.