Lake made historical past on the primary day of the Diamond League remaining, turning into the primary British girl to clear two metres
The 2025 Diamond League remaining started in an uncommon however atmospheric setting at Sechseläutenplatz in central Zürich on Wednesday (Aug 27), the place six subject occasion finals have been staged in entrance of a energetic crowd on the town streets. Among the many standout moments of the night was a big milestone for Morgan Lake, who cleared 2.00m within the ladies’s excessive leap to complete third and break new floor in British athletics historical past.
It was a breakthrough second for Lake, who grew to become the primary British girl ever to affix the two-metre membership. The clearance surpassed her personal nationwide document of 1.99m, set indoors in 2023 in Hustopeče.
She mentioned: “I really feel prefer it’s one thing I’ve dreamed about for thus lengthy and I’ve visualised myself going over two metres again and again and I used to be began to suppose will I ever leap it? However I simply knew I might, I simply did not know after I would.
“It is bizarre as a result of this season I’ve had so many occasions the place I’ve thought right now goes to be the day I leap two metres and it hasn’t occurred. I feel on the London Diamond League I felt myself getting so shut and I knew it was in me however I did not know it could be right now. At present was about being aggressive as a result of I needed to win.”
The competitors itself was of outstanding high quality. For the primary time because the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, 4 athletes cleared 2.00m. Nicola Olyslagers of Australia took the win with a nationwide document of two.04m, with Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine ending second after clearing 2.02m. Lake’s 2.00m earned her third place forward of Yuliya Levchenko, who additionally cleared 2.00m however had extra failures on her document.
Within the males’s pole vault, Mondo Duplantis efficiently defended his Diamond League title — however not with no problem. The Swede cleared 6.00m to say his fifth straight trophy, however was matched on the identical top by Emmanouil Karalis, who misplaced out solely on countback. Sam Kendricks took third with a better of 5.80m.
“It was powerful,” mentioned Duplantis. “I simply take what the day is supplying you with and right now wasn’t giving me an excellent day with massive poles, massive grips and large heights. It was only a competitors the place I needed to battle and Emmanouil jumped tremendous superb contemplating every little thing and I simply needed to struggle right now.”
Simon Ehammer gave the Swiss crowd one thing to have fun with victory within the males’s lengthy leap. Competing in a one-off look earlier than turning his focus to the decathlon on the World Championships, Ehammer jumped 8.32m to win by simply two centimetres over Italy’s Mattia Furlani, who reached 8.30m. Liam Adcock of Australia accomplished the highest three with 8.24m.
World and Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece might handle solely 7.60m and positioned sixth.
In a joint males’s and girls’s shot put competitors, Jessica Schilder continued her robust 2025 type with a greatest throw of 20.26m, successful by a transparent margin. The Dutch athlete outperformed Chase Jackson (20.08m) and Sarah Mitton (19.99m) to take the ladies’s title. Mitton was initially given the victory however her throw of 20.67m was later disqualified.
The lads’s title went to Joe Kovacs, who ended his season on a excessive after lacking out on the US group for the World Championships. The 2-time world champion produced a greatest of twenty-two.46m, sufficient to see off Payton Otterdahl (22.07m) and Rajindra Campbell (21.87m) in a aggressive subject.
Initially set for Thursday, the ladies’s pole vault was introduced ahead to Wednesday afternoon as a result of forecasts of poor climate. The early change didn’t faze Katie Moon, who cleared 4.82m to take the title. Sandi Morris settled for second with 4.75m, whereas Emily Grove equalled her private better of 4.75m to position third.
