With bad luck, the German athletes’ hopes of finishing with a second medal at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow remained unfulfilled.
Long jumper Mikaelle Assani (Baden-Baden) had to settle for fourth place in the absence of Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo.
With 6.77 m, the 21-year-old was a single centimeter short of bronze two days after the first podium place for the German core team thanks to shot put runner-up Yemisi Ogunleye (Mannheim). Gold went to vice world champion Tara Davis-Woodhall with 7.07 m ahead of her US teammate Monae Nichols (6.85 m) and the Spanish Fatima Diame (6.78).
Devyenne Charlton from the Bahamas won the women’s 60m hurdles in a world record time of 7.65 seconds. In the men’s pole vault, the favored Olympic champion Armand Duplantis (Sweden) won the title.
The three-time sprint world champion Noah Lyles, on the other hand, had to accept another setback in the title fights in Scotland with the US 4x400m relay after his defeat in the 60m against world record holder Christian Coleman by coming second behind Belgium.