Report19 Jan 2025


Szymanski and Canales impress in Luxembourg

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Polish sprint hurdler Jakub Szymanski (© Sergio Mateo)

European indoor silver medallist Jakub Szymanski got his season off to a tremendous start at the CMCM Luxembourg Indoor Meeting, clocking 7.41 in the 60m hurdles at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver fixture on Sunday (19).

The meeting record tumbled three times throughout the course of the competition. Belgium’s Elie Bacari broke it with 7.51 in the first heat, then Szymanski bettered it in the second heat with 7.46, equalling his own Polish record.

Just an hour later, Szymanski went even quicker to win the final in 7.41, finishing 0.14 ahead of Bacari. Szymanski now moves to equal second on the European all-time list.

It was one of nine disciplines in which the meeting record was broken.

Spain’s Elvin Josue Canales achieved the feat in the men’s 800m, striding to victory in a national indoor record of 1:44.65 to win comfortably from Poland’s Bartosz Kitlinski (1:45.75). Canales moves to just outside the top 10 on the world indoor all-time list.

Home sprint star Patrizia van der Weken delighted the home crowd by producing two national indoor records. She won the 60m in 7.07, then clocked 23.17 in the 200m to finish second behind Germany’s Jessica-Bianca Wessolly, who won in a meeting record of 22.84.

South Africa’s Marione Fourie took the women’s 60m hurdles final in 7.98 after clocking a meeting record of 7.91 in the heats.

Marta Zenoni set an Italian indoor record of 4:03.59 to win the women’s 1500m in what was perhaps the most dominant victory of the competition. Belgium’s Pieter Sisk (3:36.71) and Germany’s Florian Bremm (7:39.01) set meeting records in winning the men’s 1500m and 3000m respectively.

There were also meeting records for European champion Angelica Moser in the pole vault (4.65m) and Bulgarian long jumper Plamena Mitkova (6.55m).

Hoey clocks North American 1000m record, Mihambo and Yemisi open seasons

On a busy weekend of indoor action, Josh Hoey produced one of the standout performances.

The 800m specialist, who last month ran 3:52.61 for the mile, smashed his 1000m PB with a 2:14.48 run at the Quaker Invitational in Philadelphia. It broke the North American indoor record that Marco Arop set last year, and elevated Hoey to second on the world indoor all-time list, just 0.28 shy of Ayanleh Souleiman's world indoor record.

At the Corky Classic in Lubbock, Olympic champion Masai Russell got her 2025 campaign under way with a 7.89 run in the 60m hurdles, her fastest ever season opener.

Another Olympic champion, Yemisi Ogunleye, also opened her season last weekend. The German shot putter was a convincing winner of her discipline at the Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund on Saturday (18), throwing 18.98m to defeat Alina Kenzel (18.16m).

At the same meeting, two-time world champion Malaika Mihambo won the long jump with 6.79m.

In Vaxjo on Friday (17), 20-year-old Erik Erlandsson made a notable breakthrough to win the 200m in 20.43, smashing the long-standing Swedish record and moving up to equal sixth on the European indoor all-time list.

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