Following the revision of Jiri Sykora s second-round mark of 7.35m, which was originally listed as 7.98m and corrected during the lunchtime break between the shot put and high jump, Belarusian Yury Yaremich led proceedings with an impressive 7.80m with...
Cedric Dubler regained the lead with two events remaining as the Australian reached a lifetime best of 4.80m in the pole vault, 20cm higher than his previous best.
Great Britain s Morgan Lake topped the tables in the heptathlon high jump with a 1.94m clearance, the best mark ever by a junior heptathlete and a national junior record.
Jiri Sykora of the Czech Republic technically moved into first place (although he had never knowingly ceased to be in that position despite the revision of his long jump mark coming approximately two hours after the shot put finishing) by being the bes...
Morgan Lake added her own page to the book of British success in the heptathlon when she secured the world junior title with 6148 points, the highest ever score by a youth athlete in a heptathlon with senior implements as the prodigious Briton is still...