Livi McTaggart Wins The London Diamond League
London, UK – 19 July 2025
A sold out 60,000 strong crowd in the London Stadium has elevated Livi McTaggart to produce the performance of her career, winning the 2025 London Athletics Meet. The Kiwi pole vaulter has leaped to a new lifetime best in the process, clearing 4.73m to claim the top spot at the UK's only stop on the Diamond League circuit.
McTaggart has won the event ahead of one of the strongest pole vault fields assembled this season. Defeating hometown hero, Molly Caudery (GBR), the 2024 world indoor champion, and Katie Moon (USA), the 2020 Olympic Champion and 2022 and 2023 World Champion.
4.73m eclipses her previous best of 4.71m last jumped just 5 days ago at the Spitzen Leichtathletik meet in Luzern, Switzerland. The height is also the World Athletics Championships 'Entry Standard', all but securing her spot on Tokyo for the World Championships this September. Pending official selection from Athletics New Zealand.
While four competitors cleared 4.73m, McTaggart was the only one do to so on her second attempt. With Katie Moon (USA), Angelica Moser (SUI), and Emily Grove (USA) all requiring three attempts at the height. Alongside McTaggart, the four remaining athletes all fell short of clearing the next height in the progression of 4.84m, leaving the Diamond League crown to McTaggart.
The Auckland-based vaulter has been training and living in Loughborough, UK for the last several months while she competes on the European circuit.
The Diamond League circuit enjoys a brief hiatus over the next few weeks before roaring back in to life again on the 16th of August in Silesia.
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