Olyslagers wins latest duel with high jump rival ahead of world champs

[ad_1] Nicola Olyslagers has loved one other triumph in an exceptional season, successful the excessive bounce gold on the Diamond League occasion in Zurich with an Australian and Oceanian document.

The 2-time Olympic silver medallist's successful leap of two.04 metres — one of the best on this planet this yr — added a centimetre to her nationwide and continental document.

It additionally comes only a fortnight earlier than she tries so as to add her first outside world title in Tokyo to the indoor crown she received in March.

"I have been attempting to get that peak for a couple of years now — and as we speak I bought the Diamond trophy on high — what a day," the Central Coast athlete mentioned.

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"It's extremely particular. I did not ever think about after I was a toddler that I might get to this peak. I had this peace inside my coronary heart and I am nonetheless discovering what's potential for me."

The 28-year-old was all smiles as she as soon as once more out-duelled Ukrainian world document holder and Olympic champion, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who equalled her season's finest with a 2.02m leap however nonetheless succumbed to Olyslagers for the fourth time on this marketing campaign.

Olyslagers is simply the third Australian girl — after hurdler Sally Pearson (2017) and pole vaulter Nina Kennedy (2022, 2024) — and seventh Aussie athlete in all to win a Diamond League title, including to wins in Stockholm, Paris and Lausanne.

Like Kennedy final yr, she discovered her finest kind in Zurich's important Sechselautenplatz sq. within the shadow of the town's opera home, on the primary of two days of competitors earlier than the observe motion strikes to the Letzigrund Stadium.

She appeared impressed from the beginning, clearing six heights with out a failure, topped by her 2.04m leap, which bettered her earlier finest of two.03, which she first set in Eugene in September 2023.

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Mahuchikh had an opportunity to grab victory after Olyslagers failed 3 times at 2.06m, however the Ukrainian couldn't recover from both.

It's the eighth time they've confronted off this season, sharing the rostrum all however as soon as, when Mahuchikh didn't clear a peak in pouring rain on the Lausanne Diamond League occasion, the place Olyslagers claimed silver final week.

"It was so good having Yaroslava bounce with me the entire manner," Olyslagers mentioned.

"Leaping together with her is certainly one of my favorite issues on this planet, so having her and me actually go for it was great.

"I feel I've some notes of what I want to vary as a way to go increased.

"The two.04m was 10 out of 10, however I nonetheless have to work on my run within the final three steps."

Olyslagers's Australian teammate Eleanor Patterson completed final of the six finalists, clearing 1.91m.

Liam Adcock completed his debut Diamond League season with lengthy bounce bronze. ( AP: Til Buergy/Keystone )

Later, world indoor medallist Liam Adcock leapt to 3rd place within the lengthy bounce, with a last-round better of 8.24m.

The 29-year-old Brisbane jumper completed simply 8 centimetres behind native hero Simon Ehammer, who delighted the gang together with his third-round 8.32m winner, which simply pipped Italian Mattia Furlani's 8.30m.

Armand Duplantis, who took the pole vault crown as standard, was nonetheless smiling despite the fact that manner off his finest kind.

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Mondo prevailed on countback after clearing 6m, the identical peak as Greek Emmanouil Karalis.

When informed it was his 118th clearance at 6m and above, Duplantis beamed: "118? Oh, that's actually particular. I should not take it with no consideration.

"At present? Nicely, I am a human being. I do not break world information every single day. There are days after I really feel first rate and days after I really feel dangerous. At present I felt someplace in between."