Duplantis dominates at Golden Spike in Czech Republic
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis gained pole vault on the Golden Spike meet in Czech Republic on Tuesday, as 17-year-old Australian Gout Gout improved his 200 metres private greatest to twenty.02 seconds.
Duplantis cleared 6.13m within the japanese Czech metropolis of Ostrava earlier than failing to recover from 6.29 metres for what would have been a brand new world report 9 days after setting his newest one at 6.28m.
The 25-year-old double Olympic champion was in a league of his personal as soon as once more as second-placed Emmanouil Karalis of Greece didn’t even get near clearing 6.02m.
“I really feel fairly good about it. I can not complain an excessive amount of. General I really feel like I jumped rather well,” Duplantis mentioned.
Gout Gout, who had run 200m in a wind-assisted 19.84 seconds in April, stormed to a convincing win in a brand new Australian report in his first race in Europe.
“I do not really feel any strain. As a result of as quickly as I step out on that observe, it is simply me on my own and what I’ve bought to do — my favorite factor, and that is to run,” Gout mentioned.
“So, I simply go on the market and run and nothing stops me from doing that.”
Reigning Olympic champion Grant Holloway misplaced to US compatriot Dylan Beard within the 110m hurdles for the second time in 4 days.
Holloway solely completed fifth on the Diamond League in Paris final Friday as Beard took the second spot.
In Ostrava, Beard edged a slowing Holloway on the end line with each clocking 13.13 seconds.
“This isn’t the way in which I execute the race,” Holloway mentioned earlier than admitting “the time is all proper”.
South Africa’s Prudence Sekgodiso gained the ladies’s 800m in 1:57.16, the second quickest time this season.
Within the 400m, Femke Bol, a triple medallist from the Paris Olympics final 12 months, solely took the third spot in her first begin within the occasion this season, after specializing in 400m hurdles.
Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain gained in 49.15 seconds with Bol clocking 49.98sec.
Eighteen-year-old Kenyan Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech gained the boys’s 1500 metres in 3:29.05, trailing his time in Paris final week by simply over a second.
Thelma Davies of Liberia topped the ladies’s 100m in a powerful nationwide report of 10.91 seconds.
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan gained the ladies’s 110m hurdles in 12.45 seconds.
Serbia’s Adriana Vilagos upset reigning Olympic and Diamond League champion Haruka Kitaguchi to win the ladies’s javelin with 64.87m, topping the Japanese by 99 centimetres.
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