Ukrainian clears 2.10m to beat the 1987 mark of Stefka Kostadinova whereas Kenyan middle-distance star improves her personal 1500m finest with 3:49.04
Lower than three weeks earlier than the Olympics kick off in Paris, the French capital staged a superb Diamond League assembly with two world data.
When Yaroslava Mahuchikh was born in 2001, Stefka Kostadinova’s world excessive leap document of two.09m was already 14 years outdated. Kostadinova’s mark got here on the World Championships in Rome in 1987 however it lastly fell on Sunday (July 7) when Mahuchikh soared over 2.10m on the Diamond League in Paris.
The Bulgarian’s document lasted 36 years and 10 months in whole and was one of many longest standing data 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 leap 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 might be trying 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 Matter equalling the Serbian document of 1.98m in third as Britain’s Morgan Lake jumped 1.92m in ninth.
Religion Kipyegon improved her personal world 1500m document of three:49.11, which was set in Florence final yr, to three:49.04 in an outstanding ladies’s occasion that noticed virtually each athlete set PBs.
After following the pacemakers by 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 last 200m to complete strongly as Hull held on to clock an Oceania document of three:50.83.
Laura Muir completed brilliantly in third with a British document 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 document, whereas Eire’s Sarah Healy clocked a 3:57.46 PB in seventh.
Katie Snowden misplaced her English document 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 completely happy to interrupt the world document 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 document for Mondo Duplantis, although, because the Swedish pole vaulter cleared 6.00m (then failing thrice 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 had been rewritten.
Djamel Sedjati of Algeria received in 1:41.56 as Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya was second in 1:41.58 and Gabriel Tual third in a French document 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 record.
Wanyonyi, the winner of the Kenyan Olympic trials in 1:41.70 final month, led across the last bend however Sedjati kicked previous into the house straight and held off Tual on his exterior and Wanyonyi on his inside to take a slim 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 document of 1:42.43. Seventh positioned Andreas Kramer ran a Swedish document of 1:43.66. Azeddine Habz of France ran a 1:43.79 PB however was solely eighth.
Sedjati, who received world silver final yr behind Marco Arop of Canada, stated: “I’m glad 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 appearing 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 ladies’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 boys’s 3000m from Stewart McSweyn’s 7:29.46.
Within the ladies’s 3000m steeplechase Winfred Yavi of Bahrain received in 9:03.68 from Alice Finot’s French document of 9:05.01 as Britain’s Lizzie Hen 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 house soil.
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