Marschall Equals Personal Best at London Diamond League

Kurtis Marschall has produced another world class performance in equalling his personal best for fourth place at the London Diamond League.

Marschall showed no signs of fatigue from his busy European competition tour and again vaulted against athletes of the highest calibre inside London’s Olympic Stadium.

The pole vault field boasted the current world record holder (Renaud Lavillenie), Olympic champion (Thiago Braz) and World champion (Sam Kendricks) and the high calibre competition startlist didn’t disappoint.

Marschall passed at the opening height of 5.31m, instead joining competition with the bar raised at 5.46m. After missing his first attempt, he cleared with the second and battled on to gain further white flags at 5.61m, 5.71m and at his personal best height of 5.80m.

Having required nine jumps to reach this stage, Marschall launched a further three attempts at 5.86m, which would have earned the Commonwealth champion a new personal best, but it didn’t materialise.

Only the three podium place getters managed the height, with reigning world champion Kendricks claiming victory in the same stadium as his 2017 world title success.

He jumped 5.92m for the gold medal, with Lavillenie earning second on count-back ahead of Swede teen Armand Duplantis on 5.86m.