World athletics championships live updates: Nicola Olyslagers, Eleanor Patterson in high jump final – صحيفة الصوت

Australian Olympic silver medallist Nicola Olyslagers and indoor world championship silver medallist Eleanor Patterson have knocked the bar off for the first time today, taking it down with their first and second attempts at 1.98m.

Olyslagers missed her third too, so she can’t medal. We wait for Patterson’s third.

Making matters worse, Yaroslava Mahuchikh went over in a canter, and so does fellow Ukrainian Iryna Gerashchenko. Italy’s Elena Vallortigara goes over, and she’s tied in first place with Mahuchikh, with Gerashchenko third.

The Aussie finished fourth at the Tokyo Olmpics, with his 65.13m just 32 centimetres short of a medal.

What can he do today?

He starts with a throw of 61.55m. Denny has thrown a season- and career-best of 67.07m, so hopefully he’s just building into this final.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh is leading the way jumping first, but Aussie Nicola Olyslagers isn’t overawed by the impressive Ukrainian, soaring over right after her. And Patterson makes it over too.

She was rocking long pants early, but she’s whipped them off now that things are getting serious.

The bar is starting to fall a bit more regularly, but not once for the Aussies yet.

The 100m champ shot out of the gates and never looked like being caught.

She comes home in 21.82, with US college champ Abby Steiner second in 22.15.

Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah is through as the fastest non-automatic qualifier, with Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji rounding out the field.

Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah was in an absolute match race with defending British world champ Dina Asher-Smith, but American Tamara Clark two lanes over snuck up and got the win.

1. 1.Clark: 21.95 (Q)
2. 2.Asher-Smith: 21.96 (Q)
3. 3.Thompson-Herah: 21.97 (?)

The Jamaican’s time is a season’s best and the fastest non-automatic qualifier thus far, but there’s plenty of pace left in the third semi-final. So let’s just wait and see.

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After watching 20-year-old Yaroslava Mahuchikh cruise over, the first of the Aussies let’s out her patented shout at the top of her run-up, and clears it too.

And over goes Eleanor Patterson. Perhaps not as convincingly, but a first-time clearance is a first-time clearance, and only seven of the 12-woman field have gone through cleanly.

It’s a star-studded field, and the Aussie had Swiss star Mujinga Kambundji and Jamaican Shericka Jackson, who completely blew her Olympic tilt by pulling up early in the heats, in her race.

Jackson looks ready to make amends here with a rapid 21.67 to win ahead of Aminatou Seyni. Kambundji ran a national record of 22.05 seconds for third, so will have to wait to see if that time is fast enough to qualify for the final.

Beecher was last in that heat in 23.14.

The event is being broadcast on beINSports.

We’ve seen three jumpers miss and even Ukrainian favourite Yaroslava Mahuchikh brushed it with her heels, but Nicola Olyslagers flew well over the bar. Not a wobble.

And Eleanor Patterson rockets over too.

Wow. Twenty-two-year-old Jamaican Lamara Distin has the most impressive jump at this height. It looked like she cleared about 2 metres right then and there.

Nadezhda Dubovitskaya of Kazakhstan, Estonia’s Karmen Bruus and Slovenian Lia Apostolovski will have to come back for a second attempt at 1.89m.

And they’ve all made it over.

Everyone soared over 1.84m (except for the favourite Mahuchikh and Uzbek
Safina Sadullayeva, who passed) and we’re on to 1.89m.

Stewart McSweyn is in the 1,500m final at 12.30pm AEST.

He finished seventh in the Olympic final last year.

The women’s high jump final is starting now and Australia is in pretty good shape.

As we mentioned, Aussie Eleanor Patterson won a silver medal at the indoor world championships in Serbia in March.

Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold in Belgrade, and she’s here again today.

They are the only two competitors to have cleared 2 metres this season, Patterson setting a personal and season’s best with her 2.00 jump in the indoor final.

There are a few other 2-metre jumpers in this final though, including Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers, who jumped 2.02 as she won silver at the Olympic Games last year and is ranked third in the world.

She was pipped by Russian Mariya Lasitskene, who isn’t here today. Mahuchikh won bronze in Tokyo.

Patterson finished fifth in that final.

A strong back straight from the 27-year-old in lane four to come home in third place.

She’s automatically qualified for the semis with a time of 55.89. Just three qualifying times slower than hers, so she’ll have to up her pace to compete in the semi.

The American champ just jogged into first place of her 400m hurdles heat with a 53.95.

She absolutely cruised it and barely looks puffed.

Surprisingly, she’s never actually won the world title in this event, so she looks very zeroed in.

Before we get to the medal chances, we’ll watch the 400m hurdles heats.

US superstar Sydney McLaughlin is up first, but we’ll be keeping a close eye on Aussie Sarah Carli in the fourth heat at 10:39am.

If you don’t know her story, it’s well worth a read…

It’s day five of the athletics world championships, with four Australians in finals in the next couple of hours.

• Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers will go around in the high jump final from 10:40am AEST
• Matthew Denny is in the discus final from 11:33am
• And Stewart McSweyn goes in the 1,500m final at 12:30

We’ll also see Sarah Carli in the 400m hurdles heats, and Jacinta Beecher and Calab Law in the women’s and men’s 200m heats.