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Anouk Vetter: set Dutch mark

ANOUK VETTER has greatly improved since her seventh place in 2014 and showed her competitive mettle has also improved. With her final long jump, she improved from 6.02m to 6.38m to increase her lead and then did the same in the javelin, improving from 49.51m to 55.76m, in both cases surpassing her major rival, reigning champion, Antoniette Nana Djimou.

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