British pole vault record-holder will get her season off to a flying begin with a transparent victory in Qatar
Molly Caudery opened her 2025 outside season with a win as she cleared 4.75m within the girls’s pole vault on the Diamond League in Doha on Friday (Could 16).
The 25-year-old, who gained the world indoor title final 12 months, dealt with the nice and cozy and windy situations higher than her rivals as Roberta Bruni of Italy and Katie Moon of the US completed second and third with 4.63m.
“I completely have plenty of fireplace in me and that is a superb factor forward of the brand new season,” mentioned Caudery. “I had plenty of enjoyable tonight.”
She added: “I used to be very excited for this comeback, there so much much less strain within the first competitors of the 12 months. I have to settle my vault and it went nicely.
“The climate situations did not make issues straightforward, there was some wind however I managed to navigate after which the wind stopped. After recovering and getting again to coaching I had a few extra accidents however now I get again to the place I wish to be and I am attempting to work on consistency, I am coaching laborious and that fireside in me will assist me get the place I need this season.”
A terrific males’s javelin noticed Julian Weber of Germany come from behind to win with a world main mark of 91.06m.
Neeraj Chopra, the Tokyo Olympic champion from 2021, had earlier thrown an Indian report and world main mark of 90.23m however Weber, the 2022 European champion, first responded with a PB of 89.84m earlier than bettering to 91.06m. It was the primary time each males had damaged 90 metres.
Tia Clayton of Jamaica gained a much-anticipated girls’s 100m in Doha in a world main time of 10.92 with sister Tina runner-up.
In third, Amy Hunt of Britain clocked an 11.03 PB, which lifts her to No.4 on the UK all-time rankings, as she completed simply forward of veteran sprints legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who’s now aged 38.
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana gained the lads’s 200m in 20.10 with Courtney Lindsay of the US only one hundredth of a second behind.
Amid swirling winds, the in-form Australian thrower Matt Denny gained the lads’s discus with 68.97m forward of Daniel Stahl and Kristjan Ceh as Britain’s Lawrence Okoye was sixth with 65.01m.
Salwa Eid Naser, the Bahrain athlete who gained the 2019 world 400m title in model earlier than being suspended for lacking medicine exams, has discovered nice type once more this summer time and gained right here in Doha in 49.83, equalling the assembly report.
An thrilling males’s 800m noticed Tshepiso Masalela of Botswana out-kick Bryce Hoppel of the US and Wyclife Kinyamal of Kenya in a world main mark of 1:43.11.
Nobody wished to go along with the pacemaker in a sluggish girls’s 1500m and within the final lap burn-up Nelly Chepchirchir strode clear in 4:05.00 from Susan Ejore as Britain’s Jemma Reekie was third.
The boys’s 5000m was equally sluggish with Reynold Cheruiyot of Kenya profitable in 13:16.40 on his Diamond League debut from Samuel Tefera and Dominic Lobalu in entrance of a crowd that included a number of world and Olympic champion Mo Farah, who now lives in Doha.
Shanieka Ricketts of Jamaica gained the ladies’s triple soar in Doha with 14.72m (3.2) forward of Olympic champion Thea LaFond of Dominica.
