New Zealand’s top pole vaulters just missed out on the podium at the season-ending World Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest.
Imogen Ayris and Eliza McCartney both jumped 4.80 metres to finish fourth and fifth respectively.
Ayris was just 1cm short of her personal best, while Commonwealth Games champion McCartney produced her best jump of the northern season.
Sandi Morris produced a season best 4.90m to pip fellow American Hana Moll for the gold.
Commonwealth Games champion Zoe Hobbs ran 11.27 seconds to finish ninth in her semi-final of the women’s 100 metres.
American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the final with a world-leading time of 10.62 seconds with Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia second and American Sha’Carri Richardson third.
The men’s 100m final was won by American Kenneth Bednarek in a time of 9.85 seconds.
Tori Moorby was sixth in the women’s javelin with a best distance of 58.95 seconds.
The World Athletics Ultimate Championships offers a prize pool of $17 million, with event winners pocketing $250,000.