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4 days ago
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McTaggart and Walsh runners up at latest World Athletics event
New Zealand pole vaulter Olivia McTaggart. Photo: Athletics NZ New Zealand pole vaulter Olivia McTaggart has finished second at the latest World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series event in Budapest. McTaggart cleared 4.67m behind the winner Tina Sutej of Slovakia, who crossed at a height of 4.73m at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial. Last month McTaggart produced the performance of her career in winning the Diamond League event in London with a lifetime best of 4.73m. Fellow New Zealander Imogen Ayris finished sixth in Budapest with a height of 4.51m. Shotputter Tom Walsh finished second with a distance of 21.52m, behind US rival Joe Kovacs, who achieved a best throw of 22.33m. Meanwhile Sweden's Mondo Duplantis continues to take men's pole vault to another level. Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a clearance of 6.29 metres at the Hungarian Grand Prix meeting - the 13th time he has set a new world mark. The double-Olympic champion improved on his previous record by one centimetre, with his second attempt, surpassing the mark he set in Stockholm in June. The 25-year-old first broke the world record in 2020 in Poland, with his leap of 6.17 surpassing the previous record set by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie six years earlier by one centimetre.
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06-06-2025
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Victory in Rome for New Zealand shot putter Tom Walsh
Photo: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE New Zealand shot putter Tom Walsh's stellar 2025 season has continued with victory at the Diamond League meeting in Rome. Walsh, who qualified third for the final, was on song right away, nailing 21.89 with the first of his six attempts, a season's best distance by 18 centimetres. It ultimately proved to be too good for the rest of the field, with Italian Zane Weir coming second with 21.67, three centimetres ahead of Rajindra Campbell of Jamaica, who was third. The win in Rome is Walsh's fifth career victory at a Diamond League event, following successes in Brussels in 2015 and 2019, and Zurich in 2016 and 2018. The win also follows Walsh claiming his third World Indoor Title in February, in China. Two other New Zealanders were in action in Rome. Olympic high jump champion Hamish Kerr was unable to produce his best, finishing just sixth with a height of 2.20. Despite qualifying in first place for the final, he wasn't able to produce his best, failing at all three attempts at 2.23, well below his season's best of 2.32 and his personal best of 2.36. Korea's Woo Sang-hyeok, who finished seventh at last year's Paris Olympics and is a two-time World Indoor Champion, won the high jump, with a leap of 2.32. And 2022 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Imogen Ayris was off the pace in the womens pole vault. She finished eighth recording 4.50, 30cm behind winner American Sandi Morris. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
