Wilma Murto, 25, has won the London Diamond League pole vault with a score of 4.80. This is Murro’s best result of the season and at the same time the top domestic result, as well as the result limit of the Paris Olympics. He also attempted the record height of 4.86 three times, but fell short.
Also the runner-up of the United States Katie Moon exceeded 4.80. However, the reigning world champion lost to Murro because the Finnish jumper exceeded 4.80 in his second and Moon in his third. Slovenia came in third place in the competition Tina Šutejwhich exceeded the height of 4.71.
– Excellent performance from Wilma. The conditions were anything but good. The wind was always against the weather, sometimes gusty and sometimes gentler, but always against the weather, Murro’s coach Jarno Koivunen enthused in the Sports Association’s press release.
The win is historic for Finns, as no Finnish woman has won a Diamond League competition so far. Murto had previously achieved second place in this toughest competition series in athletics. On the men’s side, only the javelin throwers have achieved victories Tero Pitkämäki and Antti Ruuskanen.
Murto has been in a good mood lately, as he has been in the top two in the five previous races and has also won four. In the Lausanne Diamond League, he jumped his previous best result of 4.77, which at the time brought second place. Murto, who jumped the Finnish record and European Championship gold last summer, competed in London with new wings.
– Wilma had time to do one exercise with the smallest pole of this new set, but when the heights went up in this London competition, Wilma always had a new pole in her hand, which she had not jumped with before, Koivunen said.
The Diamond League has been organized since 2010, it replaced the former Golden League series.
Bol and Hassan ran European records
Femke Bol clocked a great time in the 400 meter hurdles. The Dutchman stopped the clocks at 51.45. This is a new European record and the top result of the season.
On the all-time list, Bol’s time is the third fastest and only the world record holder is ahead of him Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. of Jamaica Janevie Russell was second in the race with a time of 53.75 and the United States Shamier Little third in 53.76.
of the Netherlands Sifan Hassan worked in the 5,000m race, but in the final straight and Ethiopia Gudaf Tsegay that of Kenya Beatrice Chebet they pushed past him. Hassan finished third in the race with a new European record of 14:13.42. He improved the record he held by almost nine seconds.
In the high-speed run, records were set in droves. 17 women ran to the finish line and 11 of them set their record. Ethiopia ranked fourth Medina Eisa broke the under-20 world record (14:16.54), USA Alicia Monson set a continental record (14.19.45) and Nadia Battocletti Italian record (14:41,30).
Ryan Crouser broke the Diamond League record in the shot put when she won the event with a time of 23.07. This season, the American has set a world record of 23.56. New Zealand came second in the competition Tom Walsh set a season best (22.58), the United States Joe Kovacs was third (21.87).
Noah Lyles ran a new Diamond League record and the world’s best time in the 200 meters, when the American stopped the clock at 19.47. Botswana Letsile Tebogo was second in the race with a new African record of 19.50. Also placed third Zharnel Hughes wrote his name in his country’s history as he broke the 30-year-old British record with a time of 19.73.
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Update at 18:07: Updated the article with other results of the London race.
Update at 18:16. Ari Mannio has not won the Diamond League competition, but won the Sweden-Finland competition held in 2013 in connection with the Diamond League Stockholm competition.
Update at 21:47: Added information that Murro’s winning result is also the result limit for the Paris Olympics.