by Alfonz Juck
NANJING DAY 2
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Jakob Ingebrigtsen: “I tried to be a little bit reserved, I would’ve probably wanted to go out to the front a little earlier. It was a little bit of a fight, but I was confident that I can make a move in the last 100m and win, and ultimately that was the main goal. I would rather run the 1500m. The 3000m is too long, but obviously a bigger field, more room for making a lot of moves, so there are a lot of changes in positioning. It’s a lot of back and forth, but you still have to do the right things. I don’t enjoy the 1500m warm-up, but the racing is a lot of fun, and that’s what I’m going to do tomorrow – have a lot of fun.”
Mondo Duplantis: “I feel good, a little bit tired too. Manolo [Karalis] was pushing the heck out of me, but that’s fun. It’s good to compete hard like that. I think we put on a good show for everybody. For me, it’s always this internal battle, and it doesn’t really matter what everybody else is doing. If Manolo is jumping great, then it’s going to push me, and it can push me to be better. But if not, I’m still going to try to get the most out of myself because I just have this type of motivation and fire in me. It just comes from within.”
RESULT OF THE DAY
Mondo Duplantis and Grant Holloway, both won their third successive World Indoor title. While Duplantis has cleared 6 metres in the pole vault 102 times, Holloway has never lost the indoor hurdles and extended his 11-year-long winning streak.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
Following her bronze medal at the European Indoors two weeks earlier, 23-year-old French pole vaulter Marie-Julie Bonnin cleared 475cm on her second attempt, improving her PB by 4cm and equalling the national record, to edge out the favourites and win the gold.
MEDALS (24 countries)
USA 2-3-4; GBR 2-0-0; CUB, ETH, FRA, ITA 1-1-0; NOR, SUI 1-0-1
POINTS (42 countries)
USA 97; CHN 31; ITA 27; GBR 25; AUS 23; JAM 20; ETH 19; FRA, SWE 17
TITLE DEFENDERS
Yes (3): Mitton, Duplantis, Holloway
No (4): Zango, H.Kerr, Caudery, Lafond
NC (7): Vidts, Coleman, St. Pierre, J.Kerr, Bol, Doom, Alfred
TOP MARKS
WL (2): 17.80 A.Díaz; 14.93 Pérez Hernández
AR (1): 1 – South America
AGENTS (individual titles)
2 – Daniel Wessfeldt; 1 – Jorge Luis Aguilera, Ayodeji Akande, René Auguin, Younghoon Chung, Florian Clivaz, Caroline Feith, Eric Lilot, Olivier Mc Daniel, Yonas Mekonnon, John Regis, Hans Üürike.
Vanninen has no agent.
STATS
W 60: 0.03sec. is the equalled biggest margin between 1-3; best mark for place 8, second best for 7; second title for Kambundji (2-0-1) moving to second behind Devers, second medal for Dosso (0-1-1); first medal for LUX.
W TJ: Second medal for Pérez (1-1-0), third bronze for Peleteiro.
W 400: 0.03sec. is the second lowest victory margin at WI; second medal for Holmes (0-1-1); first title for GBR, first medal for NOR, USA leads the country ranking (6-5-6).
W 3000: Second best marks for places 3-8 at WI; tenth gold for ETH (10-5-4), USA (1-3-5) moved to third (behind ETH and ROU), first medal for AUS.
W PV: Equalled best mark for place 8 at WI; second medal for Šutej (0-1-1); first title for FRA, with 1-1-0 tying third (behind RUS and USA), first medal for SUI.
M 60H: 0.12sec. is the second biggest victory margin at WI; third title for Holloway, equalling A.Johnson; USA leads with 13-5-5.
M 400: 45.09 by Bailey is the third best performance at WI; second best mark for place 4; first clean sweep, USA with 6-5-4.
M PV: 615cm by Duplantis is the second best performance at WI and 605cm by Karalis equalled third best performance; best mark for place 2, equalled best mark for place 3; third title for Duplantis, equalling Bubka (+1 title at WIG’85) and Lavillenie; best mark for place 6 (equalled for 5) and equalled second best marks for places 4 and 7; fourth medal for Kendricks (0-3-1) and second for Karalis (0-0-2); third title for SWE, moving to third (3-1-0) behind URS and FRA.
M 3000: First medals for NOR (gold) and AUS at WI, ETH is first in the country ranking (8-3-5).
NANJING NEWS
NANJING (CHN): European Indoor champion Sander Skotheim leads the heptathlon with 3649 points after the first day, also leaping to 800 in the long jump. Heath Baldwin of USA is second, losing 146 points, and Estonia’s Johannes Erm third (- 152 points).
NANJING (CHN): After winning silver in the 800m in 2022 and gold in the 1500m in 2024, Ethiopian Freweyni Hailu picks up her third straight World Indoor medal in the 3000m.
NANJING (CHN): National records from Saturday. FRA (PV, Bonnin 475, equalled), GRE (PV, Karalis 605), QAT (60mH, Abakar 7.66).
