“Sometimes it’s just the way the bar falls, and it didn’t exactly fall for me this time, and that’s OK.”

Williams was one of six girls to clear 5-2 but placed second because all of her jumps prior to her attempts at 5-4 were clean, while her other competitors needed more attempts. Kazmirek, last year’s world bronze medallist, threw 43.76m to remain in second, just four points over Freimuth who finished second in this event with 48.58m over Grenada’s Lindon Victor who threw 48.82m. It comes after last month’s disappointment at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, where he exited the competition after failing to record a height in pole vault. "Belle was disappointed, but she should be excited in both the long jump and especially pole vault where she medaled," Reymer said of the team's senior co-captain.
World and Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam becomes the first female heptathlete ever to jump over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in). In this year's heptathlon event at the Götzis, Austria, competition, she clears the bar at 2.01 m, also a season's best in women's high jump overall.