Nicola Olyslagers finds silver lining in high jump jackpot at Ultimate Championship
Australian earns biggest payday of career with second behind Mahuchikh Kurtis Marschall finishes fourth after Armand Duplantis in pole vault Nicola Olyslagers has had the best worst night of her career after missing out on becoming a new ‘Ultimate’ athletics high jump champion, only to learn to her surprise that she had still leapt to the biggest payday of her life.
Australia’s world champion managed to only clear 1.95m on the first night of World Athletics’ inaugural Ultimate Championship in Budapest on Friday (Saturday AEST), struggling with her approach on a difficult surface on a cold night as Ukraine’s Olympic champ Yaroslava Mahuchikh beat her to the title with a 1.99m leap.
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