In the fifth competition of the season, Malaika Mihambo did not win for the first time. However, the long jump Olympic champion ended up just behind her closest rival at the meeting in Rome.
Malaika Mihambo’s winning streak has ended. The long jump Olympic champion from the LG Kurpfalz had to be content with 6.79 m and second place behind the Ukrainian Maryna Bech-Romantschuk (6.85 m) at the Diamond League meeting in Rome. Third was the American Quanesha Burks (6.77).
Mihambo managed her longest jump in the first attempt, Bech-Romantschuk countered in the penultimate round.
Germany’s Sportswoman of the Year was beaten for the first time in her fifth competition of the season on the way to the World Championships in Eugene/USA (July 15th to 24th) and the European Championships at home in Munich (August 15th to 21st). At the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham on May 21, the 28-year-old had won with 7.09 m.
Storl strives for seventh place
Shot putter David Storl had to settle for seventh place on his comeback tour after a long injury break with 20.10 m. Victory went to two-time world champion Joe Kovacs (USA/21.85 m). Storl, who has already won the world title twice, had achieved his best distance of the year with 20.31 m in his first competition of the season in Halle/Saale.
Jonathan Hilbert, who sensationally won silver over 50 km at the Olympics in Tokyo, finished tenth in the 3,000 m walk. Owen Ansah (20.72 seconds) and Joshua Hartmann (20.78) finished sixth and seventh in the 200m in the win of Olympic silver medalist Kenneth Bednarek (USA/20.01). Lucas Ansah-Peprah from Stuttgart was ninth in the 10.39 m over 100 m, Hanna Klein took eleventh place over 1500 m with a personal best of the season (4:07.21 minutes).