Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva only needed two for the win; China has a new(ish) long jump star in Li Jinzhe; Russia rules race walking; Jess Ennis’ wedding guest list; Cain, Harting and more … SPIKES reviews the weekend, in numbers.
Renaud Lavillenie, the pole vault champion who, save for a rule, cleared the second highest vault of all-time on Sunday.
SPIKES has picked out the best quotes from a cracking weekend of European and US indoor action.
No annual indoor athletics event quite holds the status of the Millrose Games, so it would be remiss of SPIKES not to take a nosy at what we can see this year.
Tight for the tape: France’s Linda Ferga-Khodadin edges the USA’s Danielle Carruthers for the 60m hurdles win in 2005.
“The first time I saw her train I said to Alberto, ‘this girl has a chance to make the Olympic team’” - John Henwood, coach in residence.
High school phenom Mary Cain, 16, is ripping up the record books for fun.We speak to her ‘coach in residence’ John Henwood, a former New Zealand 10,000m international, to find out why the New York based teenager is so good.
Going places: USA’s Mary Cain on her way to sixth place in the 1500m at the World Junior Championships last year.
Dai Greene pulls away from Andrew Osagie during a rare 600m contest in Glasgow.
3 – The amount of World Championship gold medals won by dual sport star Lolo Jones, who added the combined bobsled team event title to her two world indoor 60m hurdles crowns at the weekend. Jones was brakewoman in the two-man USA bobsled in St Moritz.
