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 out of doors season with a win as she cleared 4.75m within the ladies’s pole vault on the Diamond League in Doha on Friday (Could 16).
The 25-year-old, who received the world indoor title final yr, dealt with the nice and cozy and windy situations higher than her rivals as Roberta Bruni of Italy and Katie Moon of the USA completed second and third with 4.63m.
“I completely have a variety of fireplace in me and that is factor forward of the brand new season,” stated Caudery. “I had a variety of enjoyable tonight.”
She added: “I used to be very excited for this comeback, there lots much less strain within the first competitors of the yr. I must 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 arduous and that fireplace in me will assist me get the place I would like 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 document 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 received a much-anticipated ladies’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 received the boys’s 200m in 20.10 with Courtney Lindsay of the USA only one hundredth of a second behind.
Amid swirling winds, the in-form Australian thrower Matt Denny received the boys’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 received the 2019 world 400m title in type earlier than being suspended for lacking medicine checks, has discovered nice kind once more this summer season and received right here in Doha in 49.83, equalling the assembly document.
An thrilling males’s 800m noticed Tshepiso Masalela of Botswana out-kick Bryce Hoppel of the USA and Wyclife Kinyamal of Kenya in a world main mark of 1:43.11.
Nobody needed to go together with the pacemaker in a gradual ladies’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 gradual 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 received the ladies’s triple leap in Doha with 14.72m (3.2) forward of Olympic champion Thea LaFond of Dominica.
