LONG JUMP
IVANA SPANOVIC, who has won medals in the last two World Championships outdoors and indoors and was second in the last Europeans, won as expected. She had won at last year’s European Indoors, but this was the biggest outdoor win to date for the ultra consistent Serb.
Jazmin Sawyers: delighted to take champs silver for the fourth summer in a row
A 6.94m second-round jump proved sufficient for the title but surprisingly it was only by eight centimetres.
For the fourth successive year, Britain’s Jazmin Sawyers won a silver medal at a major championships, but this was more of a surprise as she jumped a windy 6.86m in round three to easily finish clear of bronze medallist Malaika Mihimbo of Germany, who jumped 6.65m.