Karsten Warholm broke the world record in the 400 metres hurdles at the Diamond League Meeting of Athletes in Oslo. At his home game at Bislett Stadium, the 25-year-old Norwegian won the race in 46.70 seconds on Thursday night. The world and European champion thus remained eight hundredths of a second below the almost 29 – year-old time of the American Kevin Young at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Warholm had previously improved his European record several times – most recently in August 2020 to 46.87 seconds.
Once again pole vault European Champion Armand Duplantis provided a spectacle. The 21 – year-old Swede failed three times at the world record height of 6.19 meters-by one centimeter he would have surpassed his own record from February 2020. Duplantis nevertheless did not let the victory be disputed: the favorite won with 6.01 meters ahead of world champion Sam Kendricks (5.91 meters).
Long jump world Champion Malaika Mihambo has just missed the seven-meter mark again a month before the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Mihambo won the long jump competition with 6.86 meters ahead of Serbian Ivana Spanovic (6.66 meters) and Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova from Belarus (6.72 meters).
Spanovic ended up in second place because she jumped further than Mironchyk-Ivanova in the decisive sixth round. Four days ago, Mihambo won in Leverkusen with a personal best of 6.92 metres.
Javelin thrower Christin Hussong won with the second best distance of 62.62 meters ahead of the Polish Maria Andrejczyk, who threw five centimeters further, but had the loss in the sixth attempt. The final round, contested only by the top trio, is crucial in the Diamond League in some technical disciplines to increase the tension:
