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McTaggart and Walsh runners up at latest World Athletics event
New Zealand pole vaulter Olivia McTaggart.
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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.
