Lower than three weeks earlier than the Olympics kick off in Paris, the French capital staged a superb Diamond League assembly with two world information.
When Yaroslava Mahuchikh was born in 2001, Stefka Kostadinova’s world excessive bounce report of two.09m was already 14 years outdated. Kostadinova’s mark got here on the World Championships in Rome in 1987 nevertheless it lastly fell on Sunday (July 7) when Mahuchikh soared over 2.10m on the Diamond League in Paris.
The Bulgarian’s report lasted 36 years and 10 months in complete and was one of many longest standing information in athletics. However the Ukrainian Mahuchikh is a uncommon expertise and after successful the competitors with 2.03m, she cleared a private finest of two.07m on her second try after which 2.10m first time.
“Coming into this competitors, I had emotions that I might bounce 2.07m and possibly 2.10m,” stated Mahuchikh. “Lastly I signed Ukraine to the historical past of world athletics.”
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Getty)
The 22-year-old is the reigning world and two-time European champion however will probably be seeking to declare her first Olympic title within the French capital in August after having taken bronze in 2021 in Tokyo.
Mahuchikh got here into this season with a finest of two.06m set indoors in 2021. Her finest this season previous to the Paris Diamond League was 2.04m however she discovered one other 6cm on Sunday to create historical past.
Nicola Olyslagers of Australia was third in 2.01m with Angelia Subject equalling the Serbian report of 1.98m in third as Britain’s Morgan Lake jumped 1.92m in ninth.
Religion Kipyegon improved her personal world 1500m report of three:49.11, which was set in Florence final 12 months, to three:49.04 in an outstanding girls’s occasion that noticed virtually each athlete set PBs.
After following the pacemakers via 400m in 61.42 and 800m in 2:03.82, Kipyegon took the lead with Jess Hull of Australia for firm.
Hull was nonetheless with Kipyegon on the again straight on the ultimate lap, however the Kenyan drew away within the remaining 200m to complete strongly as Hull held on to clock an Oceania report of three:50.83.
Laura Muir completed brilliantly in third with a British report of three:53.79 as she took 71 hundredths of a second off her 2021 finest.
Religion Kipyegon (Getty)
Georgia Bell, the British champion, ran a PB of three:56.54 in fifth to go No.2 on the UK all-time rankings in an English report, whereas Eire’s Sarah Healy clocked a 3:57.46 PB in seventh.
Katie Snowden misplaced her English report to Bell however clocked 3:58.13 in ninth as European champion Ciara Mageean was additionally inside 4 minutes with 3:58.69 however solely tenth.
“Wow that is simply wonderful! I’m so glad to interrupt the world report over my favorite distance once more,” stated Kipyegon. “I can’t wait to come back again to Paris to defend my Olympic title!”
There was no world report for Mondo Duplantis, although, because the Swedish pole vaulter cleared 6.00m (then failing 3 times at 6.25m) to win from US champion Sam Kendricks, who cleared a season’s better of 5.95m.
The boys’s 800m noticed the highest three males run within the mid-1:41s because the world all-time rankings have been rewritten.
Djamel Sedjati of Algeria gained in 1:41.56 as Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya was second in 1:41.58 and Gabriel Tual third in a French report of 1:41.61.
Djamel Sedjati holds off Emmanuel Wanyonyi (proper) and Gabriel Tual (proper) Getty)
Solely David Rudisha with 1:40.91 and Wilson Kipketer with 1:41.11 have run quicker. Seb Coe’s 1:41.73, in the meantime, is now right down to No.6 on the all-time checklist.
Wanyonyi, the winner of the Kenyan Olympic trials in 1:41.70 final month, led across the remaining bend however Sedjati kicked previous into the house straight and held off Tual on his exterior and Wanyonyi on his inside to take a slender win.
In fourth and fifth, Aaron Cheminingwa and Wyclife Kinyamal, each of Kenya, ran 1:42.08 to go equal ninth on the world all-time rankings.
In sixth, Eliott Crestan ran a Belgian report of 1:42.43. Seventh positioned Andreas Kramer ran a Swedish report of 1:43.66. Azeddine Habz of France ran a 1:43.79 PB however was solely eighth.
Sedjati, who gained world silver final 12 months behind Marco Arop of Canada, stated: “I’m happy with my race and am now making ready Monaco subsequent week. I’m assured and can put together serenely for the Olympic Video games in Paris within the coming weeks. I do know that I can do even higher there.”
With the occasion performing as a prelude to the Olympic Video games in the identical metropolis in a number of weeks’ time, Marileidy Paulino beat European champion Natalia Kaczmarek within the girls’s 400m – 49.20 to 49.82 – as Salwa Eid Naser, the 2019 world champion, confirmed a return to kind with 49.82 in third and Britain’s Laviai Nielsen clocked a 50.67 PB.
Jacob Krop of Kenya ran 7:28.83 to win the lads’s 3000m from Stewart McSweyn’s 7:29.46.
Within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase Winfred Yavi of Bahrain gained in 9:03.68 from Alice Finot’s French report of 9:05.01 as Britain’s Lizzie Chook ran a 9:09.07 season’s finest in third.
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There have been worries for Kevin Mayer, too, because the decathlon world record-holder pulled up injured within the 110m hurdles within the ‘triathlon’ simply weeks earlier than going for Olympic gold on residence soil.
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