Duplantis won DL final: "Means everything"
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- 09 Sep 2022
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- This means everything. If I had come here and not performed so well, the whole season, which has been fantastic, would not have felt as good as it would have, Duplantis told the organizer.
Duplantis retired after another winning jump of over six meters, the 40th of his career, and did not attempt a higher height.
- To end the season like this by winning my second Diamond League trophy and setting a course record is the icing on the cake, says Duplantis.
He was also rewarded with a prize check for just over SEK 300,000.
Now there was no Ernest John Obiena, who won in Brussels, to take revenge on because the flippant jumper did not qualify for the competition.
When Duplantis took 5.91 in the first attempt, he took command of the competition and put on a bit of a show on the mat.
Despite only seven jumpers, including a Swiss jumper who managed only 5.42, the competition was drawn out. Surprisingly, the Norwegian Sondre Guttormsen was second in tangent national record 5.86. He alone had 15 jumps and contributed to the drawn out contest.
Sagnia second in the long jump
Khaddi Sagnia finished second in the long jump at a moderate 6.55 after centimeter fluency against several of the competitors behind. Only the Serbian Ivana Vuleta jumped further than the Swede with her 6.97.
- It was incredibly wonderful to be able to end the season in this way, says Sagnia, who has recently been ill and has not competed for a couple of weeks to the Swedish C More. Read More…
