Athletics|Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh broke the women’s high jump world record and Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon ran the women’s 1500m ME.
Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh has set a world record in the women’s high jump.
The 22-year-old Mahuchikh jumped a score of 210 in the Paris Diamond League competition on Sunday. The previous world record of 209 was held by a Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova in the names and from 1987.
The Ukrainian, who reached the world championship in Budapest in 2023, had plans to reach his best.
“I had a feeling that I could do it. Yesterday I thought first 207 and then 210. Now I passed it on the first try, wow!” The ME woman rejoiced in a television interview.
Mahuchikh’s previous personal best was 206. The record was broken on the second attempt from a height of 207, but the world record result required only one attempt. Mahuchikh is going to the Paris Olympics in ideal condition.
“In the next competitions I will try to break my own record, which is great,” Mahuchikh was happy.
“Paris will always be in my heart because I broke the world record here.”
in Paris another world record was set, when Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon ran the women’s 1500m ME. Kipyegon ran a time of 3:49.04.
It improves his own ME result by seven hundredths of a second.
Faith Kipyegon rejoices at the goal.
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