Tokyo Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo completed a promising last endurance test around two weeks before the World Athletics World Cup in Tokyo.
Paris’s Olympic second jumped to 6.92 m at the Diamond League final in Zurich and only had to give up her Italian rival Larissa Iapichino. The European Halle European champion secured victory on Thursday evening with a lead of only one centimeter (6.93).
Mihambo, who once more sought her best attempt at the day in the last round in long trousers, has so far cracked the 7-meter brand this summer. In London the 28-year-old had flown to 7.01 m. Your best performance from 2019 is 7.30.
At the World Cup, which takes place in Japan’s capital from September 13th to 21 The athlete of the LG Kurpfalz had first triumphed at the World Cup in Doha in 2019, and in Eugene 2022 the two -time European champion was also unable to beat. The 2023 World Cup title fights in Budapest missed her injured.
The last of the 32 overall winners in this year’s Diamond League season were chosen in Zurich’s Letzigrund on Thursday. Overall, a record amount of $ 9.24 million in prize money will be distributed this year.