Pole vaulter McTaggart on the podium again
- Dave Worsley
- Aug 13
- 1 min read
New Zealand pole vaulter Olivia McTaggart has finished second at her latest World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series event in Budapest, Hungary.
Twenty-five-eyar-old McTaggart cleared 4.67m behind the winner Tina Sutej of Slovenia, who achieved a height of 4.73m at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial.
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Just last month McTaggart produced a career-best performance winning the Diamond League event in London with a lifetime best of 4.73m.
Fellow New Zealander Imogen Ayris was sixth in the same event with a height of best ehgith of 4.51m.
Shotputter Tom Walsh was second with a distance of 21.52m, behind United States rival Joe Kovacs, who achieved a best throw of 22.33m.
Meanwhile Sweden's Mondo Duplantis continues to take men's pole vault to another level.
Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a clearance of 6.29 metres at the Hungarian Grand Prix meeting - the 13th time he has set a new world mark.
The double-Olympic champion improved on his previous record by one centimetre, with his second attempt, surpassing the mark he set in Stockholm in June.
