Swedish Mondo Duplantisworld pole vault record holder, He started the season at the Astana meeting with a cautious score of 5.80the first time since Lievin 2021 that it closed an indoor rally without reaching six meters.
Two-time world champion, European champion and current Olympic champion, the universal record holder and great attraction of the first gold category meeting of the short track world circuit, He returned to compete for the first time since he did so on September 17 and managed to beat his own record in Eugene (USA) with 6.23.
He cleared 5.60 meters the first time, 5.80 meters the second time and was unable to clear 6.00 meters.. He won, therefore, without his usual brilliance, ahead of his training partner, the Belgian Ben Broeders (5.70), and the Chinese Tao Zhong (5.60)
The Ethiopian Samuel Teferadouble world indoor 1,500m champion, set a new world best season of the 3,000 with a time of 7:33.85.
After breaking the world record to win the mile title at the Riga Road World Championships in 2023, his compatriot Diribe Welteji won his first participation at this distance on the track (4:23.76), leading the festival in his country ahead of Gela Hambese, Axumawit Embaye and Dahdi Dube.
American Demek Kemp won the 60 meter dash with 6.55 ahead of Japanese Shuhei Tada (6.58) and Akihiro Higashida (6.59), and in the women’s category, Bahamian Anthonique Strachan won with 7.08, the best world record of the year, two hundredths ahead of Polish Magdalena Stefanowicz and Iranian Fasihi Farzaneh.
Nigerian Tobi Amusan, 100 hurdles world champion, took home the African record with a time of 7.77the 60 finals ahead of the two-time world champion of this distance, the American Nia Ali (7.89) and the Irish Sarah Lavin (7.91).
The Astana rally is the first gold circuit of the season. It will be followed by Ostrava (Czech Republic. January 30), Boston (United States. February 4), Torun (Poland. February 6), Lievin (France. February 10), Millrose Games in New York (United States. February 11 ) and Madrid (February 23).
Iñaki Cañal, who already has the minimum for the short track World Championships in Glasgow, won the B series of 400 meters with a good time of 46.36, beating the Portuguese Ericsson Tavares (46.95), and Saleta Fernández also had good performance, seventh highest with 1.84, not able to 1.87. Lithuanian Urte Baikstyte won with 1.92.
Source: La Verdad
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