New Zealand’s top pole vaulters just missed out on the podium at the season-ending World Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest.<\/p>\n
Imogen Ayris and Eliza McCartney both jumped 4.80 metres to finish fourth and fifth respectively.<\/p>\n
Ayris was just 1cm short of her personal best, while Commonwealth Games champion McCartney produced her best jump of the northern season.<\/p>\n
Sandi Morris produced a season best 4.90m to pip fellow American Hana Moll for the gold.<\/p>\n
Commonwealth Games champion Zoe Hobbs ran 11.27 seconds to finish ninth in her semi-final of the women’s 100 metres.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The men’s 100m final was won by American Kenneth Bednarek in a time of 9.85 seconds.<\/p>\n
Tori Moorby was sixth in the women’s javelin with a best distance of 58.95 seconds.<\/p>\n
The World Athletics Ultimate Championships offers a prize pool of $17 million, with event winners pocketing $250,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand’s top pole vaulters just missed out on the podium at the season-ending World Athletics Ultimate Championships…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-598441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}