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Not as playfully easy as usual: Mondo Duplantis on Friday evening in Brussels
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Pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis has suffered his first defeat in more than a year.
The 22-year-old high-flyer from Sweden did not get past 5.81 m at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels and finished second behind World Cup third-placed Ernest John Obiena (Philippines), who was the only one to jump the following height of 5.91 m .
Duplantis, who otherwise often effortlessly cracks the 6-meter mark, bit his teeth.
Olympic champion Duplantis, who had improved the world record to 6.21 m when he won the World Cup in Eugene in July, had not finished first at the meeting in Lausanne in August 2021.
Since then he had celebrated 20 victories.
Among other things, at the EM about two weeks ago in Munich.
Read more about the world record holder here.
World Championship fifth Oleg Zernikel (Landau) was seventh in Brussels with 5.61 m.
Shericka Jackson wins the 100 meters
The most spectacular performance on Friday evening was provided by high jumper Jaroslawa Mahuchich, who performed surprisingly well and broke the Ukrainian record with 2.05 m and is now tenth in the "eternal" list of the best.
Then the 20-year-old jumped 2.10 m – one centimeter more than the world record set by Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinowa in 1987. She failed three times.
World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce narrowly lost the world championship revenge in 10.74 seconds to 200 m world champion Shericka Jackson (both Jamaica / 10.73).
Constantin Preis (Sindelfingen) sold well over the 400 m hurdles and finished sixth with a season best of 48.83 seconds when World Champion Alison dos Santos (Brazil/47.54) won.
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