Malaika Mihambo set up her hall best at the athletics meeting in Karlsruhe and has also broken a record by Heike Drechsler.
With world year best performance, long jump Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo broke a 30-year-old brand of Heike Drechsler. At the international athletics hall meeting in Karlsruhe, the athlete from LG Kurpfalz won 7.07 meters. “I was very happy, I hadn’t expected to cease my personal best here and jump world best,” said Mihambo, adding: “But it was indicated. I am very good and happy that I am fit . “
Mihambo landed one centimeter with her width over 7.07 meters as a long jump legend Heike Drechsler in 1994. This year she was the first long jumping officer worldwide.
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“Of course there are big footsteps and of course there are other records that are even more exciting than such a meeting record. But these are also things that you can’t necessarily reach every day now.” on Drechsler’s German record from 1988, which is 7.48 meters. Mihambos Best Wide is 7.30 meters, jumping at her World Cup victory in 2019.
Mihambo won ahead of Mikaelle Assani (Baden-Baden) in the Europahalle in which the meeting was able to return to the 40th anniversary after the renovation. In the sixth attempt, the acclaimed local hero Assani jumped 6.79 meters. Third, the Bulgarin Plamena Mitkowa was 6.55 meters.
Mihambo wins, Ogunleye in fourth place
Mihambo’s victory was the only German in Karlsruhe. Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye came fourth in the shot put in the victory of the strong Canadian Sarah Mitton (20.68 m) with 19.49 m. Sprinter Gina Lückenkemper, in Paris’s bronze winner with the season, was fifth over 60 meters (7.22 seconds). Majtie Kolberg came in second place over 800 meters (2: 00.84 minutes), as did Manuel Mordi over 60 meters hurdles (7.62).
Prize on Sat., 8.2.2025 7:30 p.m., SWR Aktuell Baden-Württemberg, SWR BW
