- At the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Angelica Moser provided the Swiss highlight on the second day. The pole vaulter comes fourth.
- Jason Joseph and Mathieu Jaquet failed in the semi-finals in the 60 m hurdles, as did Géraldine Frey in the 60 m.
- Simon Ehammer is in second place in the heptathlon after completing four disciplines.
- Lore Hoffmann and Audrey Werro are eliminated in the semi-finals over 800 meters.
After finishing 5th at the Outdoor World Championships in Budapest last summer, Angelica Moser also delivered a brilliant performance at the world title fights indoors. The Zurich woman came fourth.
As in Budapest, Moser reached 4.75 m and equaled her personal best. Moser only missed the podium due to a total of more failed attempts compared to the American Katie Moon, who also jumped three times at 4.80 m. Gold went to Brit Molly Caudery, silver to Eliza McCartney from New Zealand (both 4.80).
Moser had already made it to fourth place at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade two years ago, but at that time her height was 4.60 m. At her 2021 European Indoor Championships in Torun (POL), she had 4.75 m already skipped once.
Beaten Joseph in the semi-finals
Jason Joseph had a lot of expectations for the title fights and arrived as the third best athlete this season. But it was already over for him in the semi-finals. He didn’t get up to speed right from the start in his heat over 60 m hurdles and took last place. He hadn’t shown any trouble earlier in the morning.
«I was distracted at the start, my thoughts were everywhere. At the first hurdle I realized that it wasn’t going to work. I was too far away,” said the Basel native in an SRF interview. He actually felt good before the run.
Joseph’s time of 7.81 seconds was able to surpass compatriot Mathieu Jaquet. However, his 7.74 s were clearly not enough to reach the final.
As expected, the victory went to Grant Holloway. The US defending champion prevailed in 7.29, which was 2 hundredths slower than his world record, which he set just a week ago at the US Championships in Albuquerque. Silver went to Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli (ITA), bronze went to Just Kwaou-Mathey (FRA). Holloway is undefeated in over 60 races over this distance since his professional debut seven years ago.
Frey in the hundredths of bad luck
Géraldine Frey confidently made it into the semi-finals over 60 meters in the morning with a season’s best performance of 7.15 seconds. There she ran a hundredth slower in the evening and promptly missed the final in third place: she was a tiny 3 hundredths short of the lucky loser place of the Dutch Patrizia van der Weken. Melissa Gutschmidt (7.26) had to give up after the heats.
Julien Alfred from the Caribbean state of St. Lucia won the final in just 6.98 seconds. Ewa Swoboda (POL, 7.00) and Zaynab Dosso (ITA, 7.05) only remained on the podium.
Ehammer on course for gold
Simon Ehammer is in second place in the heptathlon after 4 of 7 competitions with a total of 3558 points. After 3 disciplines he was still leading the rankings. In the high jump in the evening, however, he was unable to match his performance from the morning session. 1.95 m only meant 7th place in the 10-person field. Ken Mullings from the Bahamas was able to surpass the Swiss with 2.16 m and is leading with 3,637 points after the first day.
The Appenzell team did an excellent job at the start over 60 meters. He beat the competition in 6.73 seconds, missing his personal best by just a hundredth.
In the long jump, Ehammer took the lead with a jump of 8.03 meters. In the shot put, the 24-year-old increased his distance to 14.39 meters over the course of the competition – his best performance of the season – and came 8th. On Sunday, the finale is the 60 m hurdles, the pole vault and the 1 km run.
Hoffmann and Werro not in the final
The Swiss Lore Hoffmann and Audrey Werro did not qualify for the final over 800 meters. Hoffmann ran a Swiss record of 2:00.06 minutes, but was 4 tenths short of being among the fastest 6 in 7th place. Werro placed 10th out of 12 with her personal best of 2:00.16 minutes.