![]() But Barber was well beaten in the pole vault and Molitor only third behind Australia’s Kathryn Mitchell in the javelin. Williams won the 100m hurdles comfortably in a season’s best of 12.80 and Kemboi won the steeplechase in 8:14.19. Shawn Barber was one of four winners from last year’s World Championships to return to the Bird’s Nest javelin thrower Katharina Molitor, 100m hurdler Danielle Williams and steeplechaser Ezekiel Kemboi the others. World champions return with mixed results Two of Zhang’s other throws were also farther than the 72.39m of Zalina Marghieva of Moldova. The third world lead came from Zhang Wenxiu who won the second round of the women’s IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge with a best distance of 75.58m. ![]() It would have also bettered the Chinese all-comers’ record of 5.96m, set by Steve Hooker when winning the Olympic title in 2008.īut two competitions in China for two wins over the world champion will have to do for now. Kendricks had three unsuccessful attempts at 6.00m, which would have established him in an exclusive club to have cleared that height. ![]() ![]() He also defeated world champion Shawn Barber, who finished sixth with 5.60m. On a great night for the men’s vertical jumps, Sam Kendricks of the USA won the pole vault with 5.92m, another outdoor world lead and the best pole vault performance by a US man since June 2008. Ghazal went to fourth on the Asian all-time list behind Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim (2.43m), China’s former world record-holder Zhu Jianhua (2.39m) and Zhang (2.38m). Wang, and Chinese teammate Sun Zhao, tied for second at 2.25m. ![]() With Zhang a withdrawal from the meeting, Wang was the only one of that trio whom Ghazal defeated on the night, but he has shown he could be a medal contender in Rio later in the year. Syria’s Majd Eddin Ghazal stole the limelight from more established stars when he set a world lead at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Beijing’s national stadium on Wednesday (18).Ĭoming into the Bird’s Nest competition with a previous best of 2.31m, the 29-year-old Ghazal successively cleared 2.32m, 2.34m and 2.36m, adding three centimetres to the world lead previously shared by Erik Kynard, Zhang Guowei and Wang Yu. ![]()
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