{"id":259902,"date":"2026-08-27T23:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/australias-nicola-olyslagers-soars-back-to-form-on-spectacular-diamond-league-night\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T23:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:18:02","slug":"australias-nicola-olyslagers-soars-back-to-form-on-spectacular-diamond-league-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/australias-nicola-olyslagers-soars-back-to-form-on-spectacular-diamond-league-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Nicola Olyslagers soars back to form on spectacular Diamond League night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nicola Olyslagers soared back to her world champion best at the Zurich Weltklasse meeting, but even the Australian high jump great was eclipsed on a spectacular night when two world records were smashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alison dos Santos shattered the world mark in the men\u2019s \u200c400m hurdles, breaking a five-year old mark of 45.94, while \u200cMasai Russell blazed \u200cto a \u200cworld record in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles, clocking 12.09sec to eclipse the previous mark of 12.12.<\/p>\n

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The most prestigious Diamond League meeting, which has long had the reputation of being the \u201ctwo-hour Olympics\u201d because of its quality, even looked as if it might deliver a third world record on the night as pole vault aces Armand Duplantis and Emmanouil Karalis both had a crack at 6.32 metres.<\/p>\n

Amid this landmark fare, Olyslagers may have been just a bit-part player but after a disappointing season in which she lost her Commonwealth title to teammate Eleanor Patterson, she roared back to her best form with a season\u2019s best 2.02 metres to win by two centimetres from Ukrainian Iryna Gerashchenko.<\/p>\n

Patterson and Ukraine\u2019s Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh both cleared 1.96m and had to settle for fourth and joint-sixth places respectively.<\/p>\n

Olyslagers revealed afterwards her victory had been down to ditching a new run-up which she finally decided at the weekend wasn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me some time to reflect,\u201d she said after another disappointing outing in Poland at the weekend. \u201cI decided it does not work, so within four days, I had to try to relearn in my head what I did last year to jump my lifetime best 2.04m here.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I felt the track, I knew it was the same feeling as last year in the street meet. After I cleared two metres at the first attempt, I knew I was in shape. It was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Olyslagers clears the bar in Zurich.<\/span> Photograph: Denis Balibouse\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among other excellent Australian performances, Cam Myers got involved in the shake-up in the 3000m, clocking 7:27.97, but ending up pipped in the denouement by American duo Parker Wolfe (meeting record 7:27.43) and Graham Blanks (7:27.92).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough race, the people out there are strong competitors,\u201d Myers said. \u201cI knew it was going to be a good test, but in the end Parker was just better than me, that\u2019s how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jess Hull, fifth in 1:58.24, tested her speed out in a lightning 800m won in dazzling fashion by Swiss heroine Audrey Werro, who clocked a world-leading 1:53.70.<\/p>\n

Torrie Lewis was second in a non-Diamond League 200 metres, clocking just outside her season\u2019s best in 22.66sec behind Swiss winner Fabienne Hoenke (22.53).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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