Diamond League: Long jumper Mihambo wins in Lausanne

Lausanne (SID) The long jump Olympic medalist Malaika Mihambo (LG Kurpfalz) has once again demonstrated her impressive form almost a month before the home European Championships in Berlin (August 6th to 12th). At the Diamond League meeting for track and field athletes in Lausanne, the 24-year-old world number two secured victory with her last attempt ahead of Ivana Spanovic from Serbia, who had the same distance (both 6,90 m), only because of the better second-best attempt. It was Mihambo's first Diamond League success. Lorraine Ugen (26) from Great Britain, who set a world best of 7,05 m at the British Athletics Championships in Birmingham last weekend, only finished seventh in Lausanne with 6,48 m. To date, Mihambo and Spanovic, who was four years older than her (Olympic bronze medalist in Rio), had been the world's first with 6,99 m. In the women's 4x100 meters, which is not part of the Diamond League series, the German relay team with Gina Brückenkemper, Yasmin Kwadwo (both Leverkusen), Rebekka Haase (LV Erzgebirge) and Lisa Marie Kwayie (Berlin) achieved second place behind the strong Swiss women . 200 m specialist Noah Lyles (USA) set his world best time of 19,69 seconds for his third Diamond League triumph this year. At 20 years old, Lyles is faster over 100 meters (9,88 seconds) and 200 meters than Usain Bolt (10,03 and 19,75 seconds) at that age. “I will do everything in my power to beat Usain Bolt’s records,” announced Lyles. The Qatari Abderrahman Samba, the second fastest 400 m hurdler in history since last Saturday, also won in Lausanne after his success at the Diamond League meeting in Paris, but missed his personal best time on Thursday with 47,42 seconds (46,98 seconds). ) clearly. Birhanu Balew from Bahrain, born in Ethiopia, set a new world record for the year in the 13 meters in 01,09:5000 minutes.

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Diamond League: Long jumper Mihambo wins in Lausanne

The long jump Olympic medalist Malaika Mihambo (Germany) has once again demonstrated her impressive form almost a month before the home European Championships in Berlin (August 6th to 12th).

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