When Yaroslava Mahuchikh was born in 2001, Stefka Kostadinova’s world excessive leap report of two.09m was already 14 years previous.
Kostadinova’s mark got here on the World Championships in Rome in 1987 but it surely 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 whole and was one of many longest standing information in athletics. However the Ukrainian Mahuchikh is a uncommon expertise and after profitable 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 will probably 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 Subject equalling the Serbian report of 1.98m in third as Britain’s Morgan Lake jumped 1.92m in ninth.
Till Mahuchikh’s world record-breaking efforts, the boys’s 800m appeared set to steal the present at this Diamond League assembly as the highest three ran within the mid-1:41s to rewrite the all-time rankings.
There was no world report 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.
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 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 all the way down to No.6 on the all-time listing.
Wanyonyi, the winner of the Kenyan Olympic trials in 1:41.70 final month, led across the ultimate 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 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 received world silver final 12 months behind Marco Arop of Canada, stated: “I’m happy with my race and am now getting 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 – 49.20 to 49.82 – as Salwa Eid Naser, the 2019 world champion, confirmed a return to type 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 girls’s 3000m steeplechase Winfred Yavi of Bahrain received in 9:03.68 from Alice Finot’s French report of 9:05.01 as Britain’s Lizzie Hen ran a 9:09.07 season’s finest in third.
Kevin Mayer (Getty)
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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