Norwegian Karsten Warholm set his own European record for 400 meters of obstacles. At the athletic Diamond League in Stockholm, he moved it by five hundredths to 46.87. Two-time world champion Zuzana Hejnová, who finished seventh, did not succeed in the same women’s discipline.
The other Czech representatives did better. At the second start in the Diamond League, quarterback Lada Vondrová repeated the fifth place from Monaco in Stockholm, another Czech Barbora Malíková finished sixth on Thursday. Jan Veleba took the fifth place on the 200th.
The winner of the last two world championships, Warholm, approached the personal and continental maximum to eighteen hundredths last week in Monaco, where he made his debut in his main discipline this year. This time, despite dropping the last hurdle, he took five hundredths of last time from Zurich. He approached nine hundredths of the world record of American Kevin Young from the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. About an hour and a half later, Warholm won a smooth Thursday (45.05).
The experienced Czech national team member Hejnová in Stockholm in time 56.75 lagged behind the performance from the national championship by more than a second. She beat only the local Hanna Palmqvist. “Today’s Diamond League in Stockholm didn’t work out at all. I didn’t feel well at all from the first hurdle. I was far away and I felt like I didn’t have the strength for the fifth time. I was so out of energy. I have to throw it behind my head and race 300 obstacles, so maybe I’ll make a taste, “she said in a recording for the media. The fastest woman of the season won, 20-year-old Dutchwoman Femke Bolová (54.68).
Of the promising Czech quarterbacks, Vondrová was better this time, attacking fourth place, but in a time of 52.44 she eventually lagged behind the British Jessie Knight by two hundredths. Eighteen-year-old Malíková did not set a personal record of 51.65 from the winning national championship in Pilsen and finished sixth in 53.13 during her debut at the Diamond League. The winner was the American Wadeline Jonathas (51.94).
At the age of thirty-three, Veleba made his debut in the elite category of athletic meetings and fought for the podium. In the end, on the two hundred, which is his weaker discipline than a hundred, he was divided by a time of 20.83, eight hundredths from the third place. The 2014 European Champion Adam Gemili from Great Britain won (20.61).
World record holder in pole vault Armand Duplantis got over six meters outside for the second time outside. With a capacity of 601 centimeters, he broke the thirty-one-year-old record of Rodion Gataullin by six centimeters. World champion Sam Kendricks, unlike Monaco, where he had no bars, entered the race, but surprisingly dropped out at 573 centimeters. The stellar American finished third, surpassed by the Belgian Ben Broeders.
The organizers chose a special format of the long-distance competition, where the best trio advanced to the last attempt and it was calculated separately. South African Ruswahl Samaai won by 809 centimeters, although the Swede Thobias Montler jumped in the second series of 813. The Northerner, who scored 806 centimeters in a decisive attempt, was upset after the competition. “I’m happy for the four eight-meter jumps, but I’m not so happy with the competition format anymore,” he said.
The meeting in Stockholm was held without spectators due to the coronavirus, but the atmosphere was replaced by mannequins in the galleries and applause and encouragement from the speakers.
Stockholm Diamond League Athletic Meeting:
Men:
200 m (wind +3.0 m / s): 1. Gemili (Brit.) 20.61, 2. Svensson (Sweden), 3. Wicki (Switzerland) both 20.75,… 5. Veleba (CZE) 20.83.
400 m: 1. Warholm (Nor.) 45.05, 2. Janežič (Slovin.) 45.85, 3. Dobber (Niz.) 46.23.
800 m: 1. Brazier (USA) 1: 43.76, 2. Arop (CAN) 1: 44.67, 3. Kramer (SWE) 1: 45.04.
1500 m: 1. Cheruiyot (Kenya) 3: 30.25, 2. J. Ingebrigtsen (NOR) 3: 30.74, 3. McSweyn (Austr.) 3: 31.48.
400 m BC: 1. Warholm 46.87 – European record, 2. Happio 49.14, 3. Vaillant (both Fr.) 49.18.
Rod: 1. Duplantis (Švéd.) 601, 2. Broeders (Belg.) 573, 3. Kendricks (USA) 553.
Columns: 1. Saamai (JAR) 809, 2. Montler (Švéd.) 813, 3. Pulli (Fin.) 802.
Disk: 1. Stahl 69.17, 2. Pettersson (both Swedes) 67.72, 3. Gujius (Lit.) 66.80.
100 m (+1,3 m/s): 1. Del Ponte (Switzerland) 11.20, 2. Van Hunenstijnová (Niz.) 11.28, 3. Ta Lou (Ivory Coast) 11.32.
400 m: 1. Jonathas (USA) 51.94, 2. Nielsen (Brit.) 52.16, 3. Klaver (Niz) 52.35,… 5. Vondrová 52,44, 6. Malíková (both CR) 53.13.
800 m: 1. Reekie (Brit.) 1: 59.68, 2. Rogers (USA) 2: 01.02, 3. Hynne (NOR) 2: 01.44.
1500 m: 1. Muir 3: 57.86, 2. Weightman 4: 01.62, 3. Courtney-Bryant (all Brit.) 4: 01.81.
100 m př. (+1,4 m/s): 1. Bogliolová (It.) 12.88, 2. Harala (Fin.) 13.07, 3. Graversgaard (DEN) 13.13.
400 m BC: 1. Bolová (Niz.) 54,68, 2. Ryžykovová (UKR) 55,19, 3. Iuelová (Nor.) 55,92,… 7. Hejnová (CZE) 56.75.
Height: 1. Mahuchichova 200, 2. Levchenko (both Ukr.) 198, 3. McDermottova (Austr.) 193.
Rod: 1. Bradshaw (Brit.) 469, 2. Bengtsson 462, 3. Meijer (both Swedes) 452.
Columns: 1. Bechová-Romančuková (UKR) 685, 2. Ibargüenová (COL) 661, 3. Sagniaová (SWE) 683.
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