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Karsten Warholm after his victory in September 2020 at the athletics meeting in Rome.
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Karsten Warholm broke the world record over 400 meter hurdles at the Diamond League meeting of track and field athletes in Oslo. At his home game at Bislett Stadium, the 25-year-old Norwegian won the race on Thursday evening in 46.70 seconds. The world and European champion remained eight hundredths of a second below the almost 29-year-old time of American Kevin Young at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Warholm had previously improved his European record several times - most recently in August 2020 to 46.87 seconds.
European pole vault champion Armand Duplantis once again provided a spectacle.
The 21-year-old Swede failed three times at the world record height of 6.19 meters - by one centimeter he would have exceeded his own record of February 2020.
Nevertheless, Duplantis did not dispute the victory: The favorite won with 6.01 meters ahead of world champion Sam Kendricks (5.91 meters).
Long jump world champion Malaika Mihambo narrowly missed the seven-meter mark again a month before the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Mihambo won the long jump competition with 6.86 meters in front of the Serbian Ivana Spanovic (6.66 meters) and Nastassia Mirontschyk-Iwanowa from Belarus (6.72 meters).
Spanovic ended up in second place because she jumped further than Mirontschyk-Ivanova in the decisive sixth round.
Four days ago, Mihambo won in Leverkusen with the season's personal best of 6.92 meters.
Javelin thrower Christin Hussong won with the second best daily distance of 62.62 meters ahead of the Polish Maria Andrejczyk, who threw five centimeters further, but lost out in the sixth attempt.
The last round, which only the top trio contests, is decisive in some technical disciplines in the Diamond League in order to increase the tension:
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