Patterson wins world high jump gold with personal best leap

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EUGENE, Oregon: Australian Eleanor Patterson picked the perfect time to produce her lifetime best leap as she equalled the Oceania record of 2.02m to win a surprise World Championship high jump gold on Tuesday (Jul 19). Patterson failed twice at 1.98m, once at her previous best of 2.00m but cleared 2.02m a

EUGENE, Oregon: Australian Eleanor Patterson picked the perfect time to produce her lifetime best leap as she equalled the Oceania record of 2.02m to win a surprise World Championship high jump gold on Tuesday .

As her rivals then faltered it proved enough to earn her gold on countback ahead of Ukrainian favourite Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who needed two tries to get over the same height before both athletes failed to clear 2.04m.

 

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