Australia’s two-time defending champion Nicola Olyslagers has claimed the silver medal in the women’s high jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toru\u0144, Poland.<\/p>\n
Olyslagers, the 2024 and 2025 world indoor champion, cleared 1.99 metres to share the silver with Serbia’s Angelina Topi\u0107 and Ukrainian Yuliia Levchenko.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s Olympic champion and world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold with a clearance of 2.01m.<\/p>\n
“To have four women jump 1.99m on their first attempt, I don’t remember the last time I was a part of something like that,” Olyslagers said.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t feeling in my absolute championship best shape, so I just thought to myself, ‘What have I got to give today?’. I just realised it was just the simple joy of jumping.<\/p>\n
“I’m really stoked to equal my indoor PB and this medal means a lot, because it showed me that there is so much more to give even when everything isn’t perfect.”<\/p>\n
Olyslagers’s Australian teammate Eleanor Patterson (1.93m) finished in seventh place.<\/p>\n
Among other events, Australia’s Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull was second in her heat of the women’s 1,500 metres.<\/p>\n
Hull ran 4:12.45 to qualify for Monday morning’s final AEDT.<\/p>\n
Her teammate Adam Spencer (3:40.79) moved through to the men’s 1,500m final after placing second in his heat.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Peter Bol and Hayley Kitching advanced from the heats in the respective men’s and women’s 800m.<\/p>\n
Bol won his heat in a time of 1:45.87, while Kitching was second in her preliminary after clocking 2:00.09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s two-time defending champion Nicola Olyslagers has claimed the silver medal in the women’s high jump at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,63002,44,63001,99634,5427,5285,273681],"class_list":["post-553666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-high-jump","tag-news","tag-nicola-olyslagers","tag-peter-bol","tag-poland","tag-silver","tag-world-indoor-athletics-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}