Pole-vault champion Nicole Kyriakopoulou smashed her own national indoor record last week, clearing 4.76 metres at a meeting in Sweden.
Just over two weeks before the European Indoor Championships in Prague, Kyriakopoulou returned to the stadium where she had registered her 4.72 national best last year, and rose four centimetres higher this time.
This has been the best jump in Europe so far this year and the second in the world.
Kyriacopoulou lit the XLGalan in Stockholm with her performance that gave her victory in the meeting, but that was outshone on the night by the world record in the women’s 5,000 metres by Genzebe Dibaba.
Also in Stockholm, Louis Tsatoumas finished second in the long jump measuring 7.93 metres.
Source: Kathimerini