Blanka Vlašić has won the
Diamond league meeting in Oslo! The double world champion in high jump won this meeting with 201 cm, while the American
Chaunte Howard-Lowe came in second. Blanka only confirmed her leading position in this discipline of the Diamond League.
Vlašić jumped 201 cm, her seasonal best result in her first attempt, while the American Howard-Lowe managed the same height only after her second attempt. At the next height, 203 cm both jumpers hit the bar, even Blanka almost made it in her third attempt. Before that both athletes smoothly jumper over 185 cm, 190 cm, 104 cm and 197 cm.
The high jumper from St. Lucille,
Lavern Spencer came in third in high jump with 194 cm.
Currently, Blanka Vlašić is leading in the Diamond League with eight points, followed by Howard -Lowe with four points and both Spencer and Ruth Beitia with one point.
The sic thrower
Sandra Perković was sixth in Oslo with
59.71 m. This young athlete from Zagreb didn’t throw over 60 meters for the first time this season, so she earned only one point in the Diamond League from her third place in Doha.
The winner of her discipline was the German
Nadine Muller with
63.93 m, second was the Polish
Zaneta Glanc with 62.16 m and third the American
Aretha Thurmond with. 61.80 m. Perković is currently fifth in the overall rating of the Diamond league. At leading positions are the German Mueller and the winner of Doha, the Cuban Barrios with four points each.
Of the results in other disciplines at the meeting in the Norwegian capital Oslo we must mention the great victory of the Jamaican
Asafa Powell in the
100 m race, where he had the beast seasonal result with
9.72 and the Kenyan
David Rudisha on
800 m, also with the best seasonal time of
1.42.04.