In difficult conditions, European indoor 60m hurdles champion Ditaji Kambundji sped to victory in the 100m hurdles on home soil at the CITIUS Meeting in Berne, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze event, on Saturday (16).
With a thunderstorm causing a delay to proceedings, Kambundji kept her composure to win the 100m hurdles in her home city in 12.66, winning by a clear margin from Maayke Tjin-A-Lim from the Netherlands in 12.90.
After the race, Ditaji was interviewed for Swiss television by her older sister Mujinga who isn’t competing this summer as she is pregnant with her first child.
Fellow European indoor champion Angelica Moser cleared 4.63m in the pole vault - an event which was postponed due to the conditions - before three attempts at 6.77m and Annik Kalin won the long jump with 6.70m ahead of Serbia’s Milica Gardasevic with 6.64m.
Other highlights included in-form Brit Tyri Donovan winning the 400m hurdles in 48.65 and good quality Belgian victories for Dylan Borlee in the 400m in 45.10 - just 0.01 shy of his lifetime best - and for Eliott Crestan in the 800m in 1:44.57.
Sub-10 seconds for Azu in Stratford
Reigning world and European indoor 60m champion Jeremiah Azu broke the 10 second-barrier in wind legal conditions at the Stratford Speed Grand Prix on Sunday (17), clocking 9.97 to equal his lifetime best.
European U23 100m bronze medallist Faith Akinbileje won the women’s 100m in 11.14 ahead of Joy Eze in 11.14 while Renee Regis - the daughter of John - clocked a big lifetime best of 22.67 in the women’s 200m.
In a separate 200m race, recently crowned European U23 400m hurdles champion Emily Newnham ran a massive lifetime best of 22.73 while Toby Harries won the men’s 200m in 20.32.
2024 world indoor champion Molly Caudery cleared 4.80m at the International Pole Vault Meeting for Women, a World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger meeting, in Beckum on Sunday before three attempts at a prospective British record of 4.93m.
Amalie Svabikova cleared 4.57m in the pole vault at the Czech Club Championships in Ostrava which also included a surprise appearance from world javelin record-holder Barbora Spotakova. Now 44, Spotakova threw 54.57m to take the victory.
At the Golden Sand meeting in Miedzyzdroje, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze event, Piotr Lisek won the pole vault on countback at 5.72m ahead United States’ Tray Oates and Norway’s Simen Guttormsen.
Konrad Bukowiecki won the shot put with a season’s best of 21.33m and Nikola Horowska also won the long jump on home soil with 6.56m.