Zaankanter Menno Vloon has also not been able to crown his fifth participation in a World Cup athletics with a medal at the pole vault jump. Tock can look back on the reigning European indoor champion for the first time on a successful final. He even had a view of a bronze medal, but finished in Tokyo in seventh of the twelve finalists with a height of 5.90 meters. Vloon had too many error jumps at lower heights.
Vloon tries to break a border of six meters
Vloon jumped over 5.90 in one go, missed his first attempt at 5.95 and then made two attempts to bridge the 6.00 meters. They failed. The battle for the medals is still going on in the well -filled national stadium in Japan.
Vloon was much less successful at his previous four World Cups. At the World Cup of Budapest in 2023 he stranded in the qualifications, the year before in Eugene he did not reach the starting height in the final. At the 2019 World Cups in Doha and 2017 in London, he injured himself in the qualifications at his first jump.