“I’ve been trying to get that height for a few years now \u2014 and today I got the Diamond trophy on top \u2014 what a day,” the Central Coast athlete said.<\/p>\n
How world champ Olyslagers stays motivated<\/a><\/p>\n Nicola Olyslagers reveals how she has avoided a dip in motivation, as she targets winning the high jump at this year’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.<\/p>\n “It’s very special. I didn’t ever imagine when I was a child that I would get to this height. I had this peace inside my heart and I’m still discovering what’s possible for me.”<\/p>\n The 28-year-old was all smiles as she once again out-duelled Ukrainian world record holder and Olympic champion, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who equalled her season’s best with a 2.02m leap but still succumbed to Olyslagers for the fourth time in this campaign.<\/p>\n Olyslagers is only the third Australian woman \u2014 after hurdler Sally Pearson (2017) and pole vaulter Nina Kennedy (2022, 2024) \u2014 and seventh Aussie athlete in all to win a Diamond League title, adding to wins in Stockholm, Paris and Lausanne.<\/p>\n Like Kennedy last year, she found her best form in Zurich’s main Sechselautenplatz square in the shadow of the city’s opera house, on the first of two days of competition before the track action moves to the Letzigrund Stadium.<\/p>\n She seemed inspired from the start, clearing six heights without a failure, topped by her 2.04m leap, which bettered her previous best of 2.03, which she first set in Eugene in September 2023.<\/p>\n Do you have a story idea about women in sport?<\/p>\n