Olympic champion Valarie Allman of the United States won gold while Chinese athlete Feng Bin took silver in women’s discus at the Wanda Diamond League Final held in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday.
Feng took the lead with 67.08m after the second round before Allman overtook the leading position with 68.47m in round three, which remained the best to the end. Feng finished second with a 67.49m throw in the final round.
Pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis, who set a world record of 6.25m to win Olympic gold in Paris and then refreshed it to 6.26m in Silesia last month, raised the meeting record to a minimum.
Opening with 5.62m and after no one else managed to vault over 5.92m successfully, Duplantis raised the bar to 6.11m and sailed cleanly to secure yet another Diamond trophy, raising the meeting record one centimeter higher than he set last year.
Matthew Denny, the Paris Olympic bronze medalist, clinched the title of men’s discus throw by sending his discus to 69.96m, adding two centimeters to the meeting
record set by Imrich Bugar in 1984.
Source: The Namibia Press Agency