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).
