Chase Jackson threw a North American shot put report of 21.02m to hitch athletics‘ 21-metre membership in Berlin, whereas Rajindra Campbell and Amy Hunt additionally impressed on a busy weekend throughout the Continental Tour.
Chase Jackson turned simply the second girl in 14 years to throw past 21 metres, setting a North American shot put report of 21.02m at ISTAF in Berlin on Sunday (Aug 30), a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver assembly.
The 2-time world champion produced the mark within the first spherical, enhancing on her personal US report of 20.95m from June 2025 and eclipsing Cuba’s Belsy Laza’s 32-year-old North American report of 20.96m. She backed it up with three additional throws past 20m. Solely the Netherlands‘ European champion Jessica Schilder, who threw 21.09m in Could, has gone additional this yr – the primary time since 1990 that two girls have handed 21 metres in the identical season.
„It was superb. I’ve been ready for a throw like this for thus lengthy,“ stated Jackson, who confirmed she’s going to now prepare in Berlin earlier than heading to Brussels for the Diamond League last. Canada’s two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton took second with 20.10m, with residence favorite and Olympic champion Yemisi Mabry third on 19.73m.
Elsewhere in Berlin, two-time European champion Julian Weber received the javelin on residence soil with 89.54m, whereas USA’s Olympic and world discus champion Valarie Sion threw 67.89m for victory.
Australia’s Cameron Myers received the 1500m in 3:30.96 forward of German record-holder Robert Farken (3:31.73), Ethiopia’s Nigist Getachew took the 800m in 1:58.04 and Germany’s Gesa Felicitas Krause received the 2000m steeplechase in 5:56.79.
Two-time world champion Danielle Williams received the 100m hurdles in 12.78, whereas Rushell Clayton (53.72) and Emil Agyekum (48.18) took the 400m hurdles titles.
World decathlon champion Leo Neugebauer, competing in a standalone discus occasion, went near his private finest with 58.54m.
Campbell strikes into world all-time prime 13 in Brescia
Rajindra Campbell added one other large throw to the weekend’s shot put headlines on the Grand Prix Brescia, one other Continental Tour Silver assembly, launching a Jamaican males’s report of twenty-two.59m to maneuver to joint thirteenth on the world all-time record. The Olympic bronze medallist improved his personal nationwide report of twenty-two.44m from June and beat residence favorite Leonardo Fabbri, who threw 21.99m, with two additional efforts over 22m.
Britain’s Amy Hunt, recent from 4 gold medals on the current European Championships, added the 100m title in Brescia, clocking 11.06.
South African duo Bayanda Walaza and Leendert Koekemoer additionally impressed: Walaza, the double 2024 world U20 champion, received the boys’s 100m in 10.00 forward of Courtney Lindsey (10.09) and Trayvon Bromell (10.16), whereas Koekemoer ran a South African U20 report of 44.52 for 400m victory from lane one, edging Jonas Phijffers (44.61) in a area that additionally included world bronze medallist Bayapo Ndori, 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James and Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo.
Patterson matches PB to beat Mahuchikh in Heilbronn
On the Internationales Hochsprungmeeting Heilbronn, an extra Continental Tour Silver fixture, Australia’s 2022 world champion Eleanor Patterson matched her private finest of two.02m to win the excessive leap forward of world record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who cleared 2.00m for second.
