Samuel Tefera, Diribe Weltej and Mondo Duplantis were among the players who got the season off to a winning start. World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Medal The tournament began on Saturday (27th) in Astana, Kazakhstan.
In a season that culminated at the World Indoor Athletics Championships Glasgow 24 in March, Tefera, a two-time world indoor 1500m champion, also excelled in the 3000m, setting a world-best personal best of 7:33.80 and winning the Ethiopian took a 1-2 lead. She got net wale at the Astana indoor competition for the Amin Tuyakov Award.
Wale and Tefera separated themselves from the rest of the field early on, closely following the pacers. Even with his pacemaker dropping, Wehr, who placed fourth in the Olympic 3,000m steeplechase, still led the way after running 3,000m in 7:24.98 at Libin 2021.
However, Tefera clearly felt comfortable and the former world record holder slowed down with about 500 meters remaining and stayed ahead of his compatriot. He could not relinquish this lead and picked up the pace in the final laps, taking a comfortable victory in 7 minutes 33.80 seconds. Wale took second place with a time of 7:34.36.
Ethiopia's world mile champion Diribe Welteji also made his track mile debut and appeared to be in control.
Diribe Weltej earns miles at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Championship in Astana (© Marta Gorczynska)
The 21-year-old broke her first road mile record with a time of 4:20.98 when she won the world title in Riga in October, and in Astana she beat fellow Ethiopians Ashmawit Embaye, Jera Hanbese and others. He was at the back of the race, leading a breakaway quartet that included Dahadi Dube. pacemaker.
Weltej remained in the lead after the pacemaker's work and was able to put in a lap before applying more pressure. Dubé was dropped by the bell, and when Hanbese passed Embaye on the final lap, Weltej was unable to catch her, giving her the victory in 4:23.76. Hanbese took second place with a time of 4 minutes 24.44 seconds.
2022 World 100m Hurdles Champion Tobi Amusan of Nigeria was another athlete who achieved a personal best in Astana, winning the women's 60m hurdles final with a regional record time of 7.77.
She led her heat with a comfortable score of 7.91 points and then won the final after a strong second half. In the final race of the program, Amsan won the indoor 60m hurdles with two-time world champion Nia Ali of the United States clocking 7.89 seconds, followed by Ireland's Sarah Rabin in her heat of 7.93 seconds, which was her fastest time of the day. He marked his second personal best time of 7.91 seconds.
Women's 60m hurdles final at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Championship in Astana (© Marta Gorczynska)
The men's 60m hurdles final was very close, with China's Liu Junxi diving in at the perfect time to narrowly edge out Cyprus' Milan Trajković.
Despite passing the final hurdle, Liu set a personal record of 7.58, beating Trajkovic by 0.02. Britain's Andrew Pozzi took third place with a score of 7.63, while Kuwait's Yaqub Al-Yuha took a heavy fall after hitting a hurdle.
In the 60m final, Demek Kemp of the United States and Anthony Strachan of the Bahamas won with times of 6.55 and 7.21, respectively. Kemp scored 6.58 points and 6.59 points, beating Japan's Shuhei Tada and Akita Higashida, who were separated by just 0.01 points, while Strachan scored 7.22 points, ahead of Poland's Magdalena Stefanovic, who tied Iran's record with 7.23 points. She surpassed Asian indoor champion Farzaneh Fassihi.
In the men's 400m, Spain's Inaki Canal won the first of two races with a time of 46.36 seconds. Portugal's Eriksson Tavares took second place with 46.95 points.
Jamaica's Rasheen McDonald stormed to the front in the second 400m race and had a clear lead when the bell rang. But he slowed dramatically in the final 100 meters and was overtaken by the rest of the field, allowing Czech Patrick Solm to win in 47.01 seconds, ahead of compatriot Pavel Maslak, a three-time world indoor champion.
In the women's 400m, Portugal's Katia Azevedo overtook early leader Sophie Becker of Ireland and won in a short track personal best of 52.64 seconds, with Becker chasing home in 53.19 seconds. World indoor bronze medalist Stephanie Ann McPherson of Jamaica took third place with 54.66 points. Japan's Nanako Matsumoto narrowly won the first race in 54.79 seconds.
World and Olympic champion Duplantis did not have his usual dominance in the men's pole vault, but it was his first competition since extending his world record to 6.23 meters at the 2016 Wanda Diamond League finals in Eugene. He broke 5.80 meters and achieved an important season debut victory. September.
Mondo Duplantis at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Meeting in Astana (© Marta Gorczynska)
Four other athletes remained in the competition when Duplantis entered with 5.60 meters and cleared it for the first time as well as Belgium's Ben Broders. China's Zhong Tao needed two attempts, while America's Cole Walsh needed three attempts. Germany's Oleg Zernickel chose to pass that height after clearing 5.50 meters on his first try.
Duplantis then passed at 5.70 meters, which proved to be too high for Walsh, Zernickel and Zorn. Bruders remained in contention when he went over the bar on his third try, after which he and Duplantis both passed at 5.75 meters.
Returning to the 5.80m competition, Duplantis needed two tries at that height, but Broaders was unable to get over it, sealing the winner.
Duplantis then decided to try for 6 meters, but it was not to be and after three attempts he clinched the victory with a 5.80 meter clearance.
Milica Gardasevic of Serbia won the women's long jump with a distance of 6.45 meters, making her the second time she has achieved this distance. She led the competition in the second round with a distance of 6.42 meters, but in the next round Diana Lesti of Hungary equaled this record after two fouls. But Gardasevic improved her form with her fourth and fifth jumps and clinched the victory by 3cm over Resty, with Asian Games champion Xiong Shiqi of China taking third place with 6.38m. .
In the women's high jump, Lithuania's Urte Baykstite improved her personal best by one centimeter to win, clearing 1.92 meters on her third attempt, extending world indoor bronze medalist Nadezhda Dubovitskaya's victory in her home country. I prevented it.
Bykstite, who set a new all-time outdoor record in 2022, entered the contest at 1.70 meters and was the first to clear each height up to 1.84 meters. It took her two attempts at 1.87m and 1.90m, and her third clear of 1.92m clinched the win.
Dubovitskaya ran all heights, from 1.78 meters in the first race to 1.90 meters in the first, but was unable to exceed 1.92 meters and settled for second place. Czech athlete Michaela Hrva took third place with 1.87 meters.
In the men's shot put, Great Britain's Scott Lincoln set a career-best indoor record, throwing 20.81 meters to win the men's shot put, beating American NACAC champion Roger Steen's 20.58 meters.
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