Overview
- Kurtis Marschall won the pole vault in Stockholm by clearing 5.90 metres while Armand Duplantis finished second with 5.80 metres in a result that ended Duplantis’s 40-meet winning run on Sunday.
- Duplantis struggled through the event with an early miss at his opening height and failed twice at 6.00 metres before missing a reserved ‘joker’ attempt at 6.05 metres, a sequence that kept him off the top step.
- Jessica Schilder set the meeting record in the women’s shot put with 20.89 metres and was the only competitor to exceed 20 metres at the Diamond League meeting.
- Lea Meyer and Karl Bebendorf produced strong steeplechase runs and met or confirmed the European Championship qualifying standards for Birmingham, while others such as Malaika Mihambo and Yemisi Mabry reported technical problems to address.
- The result is best read as a sign of short-term form fluctuation rather than clear decline for Duplantis and it raises practical questions about athletes’ technical consistency and selection readiness as teams prepare for the August European Championships.