Long jumper Malaika Mihambo finished the last major test before the World Athletics Championships in fifth place. Things are not going well for obstacle runner Gesa Krause either. Pole vault star Armand Duplantis is still on the move in his own dimensions.
World record holder Armand Duplantis broke the outdoor pole vault record two weeks before the World Championships in Eugene/Oregon. The Swede jumped 6.16 meters on his second attempt at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Thursday evening. At 6.20 meters, Duplantis holds the world record that he set indoors in March.
On the other hand, Gesa Felicitas Krause (Trier) experienced a mixed start to the season over the 3000 m obstacle. The 29-year-old, who recently suffered from severe cold symptoms, ran 9:44.44 minutes and finished eighth. Daisy Jepkemei, running for Kazakhstan, took the win in 9:15.77 minutes. The German champion Lea Meyer was fifth with a personal best of 9:25.61 minutes, Elena Burkard came in seventh with 9:40.67 minutes. “Such a time is of course not what I wish for or what I train for” , Krause said on Sky that there was still a lack of strength.
Long jump Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo (LG Kurpfalz) reached fifth place in the long jump with 6.72 meters. In the javelin throw, German champion Julian Weber (Mainz) took third place with 89.08 meters behind world champion Anderson Peters (90.31 m/Grenada) and Olympic champion Neeraij Chopra (89.94/India). However, given the difficult conditions, he could hardly explain the distance himself. “It was a stroke of luck, I would say,” he said on Sky. Johannes Vetter is currently curing his shoulder problems.
100 m Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs canceled his start at short notice. As the organizers announced, the Italian had felt pain during training the day before. His coach Paolo Camossi explained that Jacobs had complained of gluteal discomfort. A few days before the World Cup (July 15th to 24th) on Thursday they “didn’t want to take the risk”.
