- Pole vaulter Angelica Moser wins a Diamond League meeting in Marrakech for the first time in her career.
- At Mujinga Kambundji there is no exploit over 200 m.
- Rachel Pellaud takes 6th place in the 800 m.
In the oval
26-year-old Angelica Moser managed an exploit at the Diamond League meeting in Marrakesh. She won the pole vault with a successful attempt over 4.73 m. She jumped the winning height in the last attempt. She had previously achieved heights of 4.45 m and 4.55 m in the first attempt and 4.65 m in the second attempt.
With the winning jump of 4.73 m in Marrakesh, she came within two centimeters of her personal best. She made it to the podium for the second time at Diamond League meetings. Angelica Moser will go down in the history books of the Diamond League as the seventh winner from Switzerland – after Nicole Büchler, Lea Sprunger, Ajla Del Ponte, Mujinga Kambundji, Simon Ehammer and most recently Ditaji Kambundji at the last meeting in Doha.
On the train
In the dominant victory of world champion Shericka Jackson (JAM), the Swiss sprinter Mujinga Kambundji ran to 5th place over 200 meters in 23.14 seconds. The 31-year-old was surprisingly preceded by a European, the Frenchwoman Helen Parisot, who ran her personal best time of 23.02 seconds. If Kambundji wants to defend her European Championship title over this distance in Rome at the beginning of June, an improvement will be necessary.
The Swiss Rachel Pellaud showed a solid performance over 800 m. She ran to 6th place in 2:00.95 minutes in the half-empty stadium in Marrakesh. This made her the third best European behind Gabriela Gajanova (SVK/4th) and Eloisa Coiro (ITA/5th). The South African Prudence Sekgodiso won in a dominant manner. The 22-year-old ran an annual world record of 1:57.26 minutes.
Favorite Andre de Grasse (CAN) did not fully live up to expectations in the “supreme discipline”. The bronze medalist from Tokyo over 100 m was somewhat surprisingly beaten in Morocco by Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme, who, like Moser, triumphed at a Diamond League meeting for the first time. De Grasse remained 8 hundredths above the winning time of 10.11 seconds.