Javelin throwers Tero Pitkamaki and Maria Abakumova competed in two different meetings on German soil on Sunday (25), but the end result for both athletes was the same as they produced the best throws in the world since 2011.
Renaud Lavillenie will have to wait two more years to take another stab at winning the World Championships gold medal that has so far eluded him – and continues to do so – in his glittering career.
There was a brief moment of tension for pre-event favourite Renaud Lavillenie in this morning’s qualifying round of the men’s Pole Vault.
Renaud Lavillenie heads to Moscow as one of the biggest gold-medal favourites of any event.
A total of 67 athletes, 35 men and 32 women, have been named by the Germany Athletics Federation (DLV) to compete at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow.
About 27,000 spectators at the two-day German Championships in Ulm on 6-7 July saw throwers as strong as ever, sprinters getting into shape for the IAAF World Championships in Moscow and Alyn Camara causing an upset in the Long Jump.
Spectators in the sold-out Helmut-Körnig-Halle in Dortmund expected a show-down in the men’s Pole Vault at the German Indoor Championships this weekend (23-24), and the athletes didn’t let them down.
Olympic Pole Vault champion Renaud Lavillenie is ready to take the Prefontaine Classic to new heights when he competes at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Eugene on June 1.
American shot putter Ryan Whiting continued to dominate his event this winter when provided the best performance of the evening at the ninth edition of the Pedro’s Cup indoor meeting in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Tuesday (12).
Meeting records from Bjorn Otto in the Pole Vault and Murielle Ahoure in the 60m, plus a world-leading performance in the 60m Hurdles by Kevin Craddock, were among the highlights of the PSD Bank Meeting in Dusseldorf on Friday (8).
Olympic silver medallists Bjorn Otto and Yarisley Silva came out on top at the first edition of the Golden Indoor Pole Vault meeting in Pardubice on Tuesday (5).
With now only three weeks to go until the start of the IAAF Indoor Permit series, the Indoor Meeting in Karlsruhe will have a mouth-watering clash in what is arguably the nation’s best event, as one of the highlights of the six-meeting series.