Kristiina Mäkelä reached the best World Championship ranking of her career, but was still disappointed. Three-legged ME woman Yulimar Rojas took the top jump again. See the best bits of the night of the World Cup in this story.
Triple Jumper Kristiina Mäkelä was ninth in the final race. Mäkelä was still in eighth place in the third round, which would have entitled him to further rounds. Dominica Thea Lafond however, he improved so much that Mäkelä was left out of the points.
Mäkelä’s result was 14.18 on the first attempt.
– This is what happens when the run doesn’t go. I just couldn’t get into the plank in such a flat position and then it’s such a flop. Draws to do. Pointless, so pointless, Mäkelä told in an interview.
In qualifying for the World Championships in Oregon, Mäkelä jumped his record 14.48. What changed compared to qualifying?
– It depends on those little adjustments. It is impossible to know until you are at the end of the track how it will go.
– It was a good feeling and excitement, but then it didn’t start at that end of the track. With a result like that, you dare to fall, Mäkelä said.
Mäkelä already jumped for the fourth time in the final competition at the World Cup or Olympic level. Ninth place is the best place of Mäkelä’s career in those races.
This was Mäkelä’s tenth time that he advanced from qualifying to the final competition. Mäkelä has also been three times in the World Cup halls, where there has not been a separate qualifying competition. Mäkelä’s best jump result in the value competition final is 14.29.
In the adult competition, Mäkelä has only jumped better three times in the final than in the qualification. This has happened in the EC finals in 2016, in the EC halls in 2019 and in the EC halls in 2021.
An ME woman became the world champion Yulimar Rojas, who in the second round had a top jump of 15.47. This is the top result in the world statistics of this outdoor track season and the fifth longest jump of all time. The 26-year-old Venezuelan’s world record is 15.74, set in the winter at the WC halls.
The world championship is already the third of Rojas’ career.
The season’s best 14.89 was jumped by Jamaica Shanieka Ricketts took the World Championship silver for the second time in a row. of the United States Tori Franklin was third with a result of 14.72.
Second world championship for Thiam
The women’s heptathlon saw a great final battle for victory. Holland’s Anouk Vetter led the sixth event, after the javelin throw, with a difference of 19 points ahead of the long-time winner of Belgium Nafissatou Thiamia.
Thiam, who led the competition after the opening day, finally took the victory for himself in the final event at 800 meters. Thiam took 6947 points ahead of Vetter, who improved his record streak by almost 200 points. Thiam’s winning streak is the top result in world statistics this season.
The third was the USA Anna Hall with his record series of 6755. The world championship was the second of Thiam’s career. He also has two Olympic gold medals.
Barshim again the number one in the height race
Men’s height in Qatar Mutaz Essa Barshim took the third world championship of his career. The high-profile star wasn’t in top shape at the beginning of the season, but he proved to be strong again in the most important moment of the season. He pushed for a world-leading score of 237 this season.
Overall, the altitude race was really tough. South Korea Woo Sang-Hyeok made his country’s record 235. Ukraine took the bronze Andrei Protsenko on the other hand, your previous top result of the season was 233.
The World Championship bronze was the 34-year-old Protsenko’s first career medal on outdoor tracks. His record is as hard as 240.
Drama in the hurdles final
Olympic champion in the men’s 3000 meter steeplechase Soufiane El Bakkali turned his WC bronze from three years ago into gold. The Moroccan wins with a time of 8:25.43.
The second name in the world ranking, Ethiopia Lamecha Girma was second with a time of 8:26.01 ahead of Kenya Conseslus Kiprutoa. At the beginning of the competition, we saw a strange situation when the photographer was in the middle of the track. Both the runners and the cameraman survived the frightening situation with a start, however.
Drama was also seen in the last round, when Ethiopia was second Hailemariam Arame tripped over an obstacle on the back straight.
The fixed star of the women’s 1500 meters, Kenyan Faith Kipgyegon jwon his second world championship with a top time of 3:52.96 ahead of Ethiopia Gudaf Tsegayta (3.54,52) and Great Britain Laura Muir (3.55,28). The Kenyan star also has two Olympic gold medals.
Sipponen and Korttetmaa debut at the World Cup level
In addition to Kristiina Mäkelä, the Finnish discus throwers who debuted at the World Championships competed at night Salla Sipponen and a sprinter Anniina Korttemaa. Sipponen was eliminated from the final with a result of 57.16.
He threw his record 60.58 in June. Sipponen’s value race representation was the second in his career. Four years ago, he participated in the European Championships in Berlin.
The number one in the women’s puck qualifying was the home crowd’s favorite Valarie Allman. The number one name in the world statistics was left without a result in his first two throws, but in the last he threw a top throw of 68.36.
In the women’s 200 meters, Anniina Korettemaa ran 23.51 in the second round. Kortetmaa did not proceed further. His record is 23.42.