Sentences with phrase «high jump champion»

World indoor high jump champion Mariya Kuchina of Russia — silver medallist in Zurich — won the competition in Stockholm with a best of 1.94 m.

World pole vault record - holder Renaud Lavillenie has also already been announced for next month's Monaco event along with Olympic and world triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen, Olympic javelin gold medallist Thomas Röhler, Olympic 1500m champion Matthew Centrowitz, world 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop, world javelin champion Julius Yego, world high jump champion Maria Lasitskene and Olympic steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto.

Three more medallists go in the men's shot put, with USA's winner Ryan Crouser again going up against his compatriot and world champion Joe Kovacs, plus Tom Walsh of New Zealand, while Spain's high jump champion Ruth Beitia and USA's long jump winner Tianna Bartoletta are back in action, with the American again facing Britain's Lorraine Ugen and Shara Proctor.

Not exact matches

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

James Frazier was a Pac - 10 champion in the high jump and a two - time All - American whose jump of 7 feet, 6 inches in 1980 remains the University of Arizona's outdoor record.

With framed photos of the race's past champions and the national flags of all the winners, with a high jump bar 8» 1/2» off the floor (Javier Sotomayor's world record) and a strip of tape on the floor measuring 29» 41/2» (Mike Powell's long jump world record), the Eliot was part shrine, part social club.

He threw 87.37 m to beat Germany's Thomas Rohler with 86.56 m, while high jump victory went to Russia's world indoor and outdoor champion Mariya Kuchina in Brussels as she equalled her PB of 2.01 m, but Spain's Ruth Beitia cleared 1.93 m and won the Diamond Race.

Olympic champion Ruth Beitia of Spain won the high jump with 1.96 m and secured a big winning margin overall for the series.

In the high jump, Croatia's two - time world champion Blanka Vlasic missed out on victory on her season debut on countback, Russia's world indoor champion Mariya Kuchina equalling her 1.98 m PB to finish top.

World champion Derek Drouin and world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi are among the top names set to compete in the high jump at the Birmingham Diamond League on June 5, informs organisers.

In a high jump competition eagerly watched by the home crowd, Ukraine's Bohdan Bondarenko spoiled the hopes of the Italian crowd as he beat world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi into third, sandwiching Britain's Robbie Grabarz in the finishing order.

The world and Diamond League champion hopes to continue her fine high jump form at the IAAF World Indoor Championships

Olympic bronze medallist Ivana Spanovic won the long jump with 6.90 m from Britain's Lorraine Ugen with 6.80 m, while Shara Proctor finished fourth with 6.55 m. Spain's Olympic champion Ruth Beitia claimed another victory as she cleared 1.98 m in the high jump, while Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic beat Germany's Julian Weber and Olympic champion Thomas Rohler in the javelin with a PB of 88.02 m.

However, she cleared 1.89 m in the high jump when the best of the rest cleared 1.80 m and she moved to third on 1972 points closely behind Anouk Vetter (1984) and the 2013 world champion Hanna Kasyanova (1978).

Derek Drouin, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Bohdan Bondarenko and Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov will contest the high jump, while Tianna Bartoletta of the United States heads to the Swiss city as world long jump champion.

The women's 100m hurdles has a great line - up including Britain's Tiffany Porter, while other British athletes in action are Isobel Pooley in the high jump, Christine Ohuruogu in the 400m and Dina Asher - Smith in the 200m, which also features European 100m and 200m champion Dafne Schippers.

Over in the field events, recently - crowned British champion Greg Rutherford will continue his return from injury in the long jump, while in the women's high jump, world champion Maria Lasitskene will look to extend her winning streak as she forms part of a field also including Britain's Morgan Lake.

The high jump is of its usual great standard as world and European champion Bondarenko and world indoor champion Barshim go up against Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov, Derek Drouin and Erik Kynard.

'' The women's high jump qualifying also had its fair share of shock exits, including European indoor silver medallist Ruth Beitia, European under - 23 champion Esthera Petre and St Lucian record - holder Levern Spencer.

A 35 - strong Great Britain and Northern Ireland team has been named for the event in Poland from March 7 - 9, with UK Indoor champions including Holly Bleasdale, Luke Cutts and Lee Emanuel to be joined by the likes of sprinter Sophie Papps and high jumper Tom Parsons.

Johnson - Thompson's fellow Briton Morgan Lake sits 29th after four events, with the double world junior champion having clocked 14.43 in the 100m hurdles, cleared 1.86 m in the high jump, thrown 13.18 m in the shot put and run 26.12 in the 200m.

Olympic champion Tia Hellebaut, also making her summer debut, won the high jump with 1.96 m.

Olympic bronze and world indoor silver medallist Robbie Grabarz and British indoor champion Chris Baker are other British athletes in Rome where they will mix it with the best in yet another world - class high jump field including world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi and 2013 world champion Bohdan Bondarenko.

His sister Blanka is a two - times high jump world champion and has claimed Olympic silver and bronze medals in the event.

Mutaz Essa Barshim, the world champion and world - leader with his 2.40 m clearance in Birmingham, will be looking to continue his fine form in the high jump, where he will be joined by Britain's Robbie Grabarz and Tom Gale.

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