Molly Caudery enjoys Diamond League win in Doha

Lucas Montgomery
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British Pols Vault Record-Holder brings its season to a flying start with a clear victory in Qatar

Molly Caudern opened her 2025 outdoor season with a victory when she cleaned up 4.75 meters in the pole vault for women in the Diamond League in Doha on Friday (May 16).

The 25-year-old, who won the World Indoor title last year, treated the warm and windy conditions better than her rivals such as Roberta Bruni of Italy and Katie Moon of the United States finished second and third with 4.63m.

“I have absolutely a lot of fire in me and that is a good thing for the new season,” said Caudern. “I had a lot of liters of light.”

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She added: “I was enthusiastic about this comeback, there is much less in the first competition of the year. I have to arrange my safe and it went well.

“The weather conditions didn’t make things easy, there was something consistent

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Julian Weber of Germany saw a great men’s spear from behind to win with a world leader of 91.06m.

Neeraj Chopra, the Olympic champion of Tokyo from 2021, had previously thrown an Indian record and a world leader of 90.23 m, but Weber, the European champion of 2022, replied for the first time with PB of 89.84 m before he improved to 91.06 million. It was the first time that Boch men had broken 90 meters.

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Tia Clayton from Jamaica won a much-ascending ladies 100 meters in Doha in a world leader of 10.92 with Sister Tina Runner-Up.

In the third place, Amy Hunt has clocked a 11.03 PB of Great Britain, which lifted her to no. 4 at the VK of all time, while she finished Jushe Jus for veteran Sprints legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who is now 38 years old now.

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Olympic 200m Champion Letsile Tebogo van Botswana won the Heren 200m in 20.10 with Courtney Lindsay of the United States only a hundredth second behind.

In the midst of swirling winds, the in-form Australian pitcher Matt Denny won the men’s discus with 68.97 million for Daniel Stahl and Kristjan CEH when the Britain’s Lawrence Okoye was sixth with 65.01m.

Salwa Eid Naser, the Bahrain -Athlete who won the World 400M title of 2019 in style before it was suspended for missing drug tests, you found a great shape again this summer and won here in Doha in 49.83, similar to the meeting record.

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An exciting 800m for men saw Tshepiso Masalela from Botswana Out-Kick Bryce Hoppel of the United States and Wyclife Kinyamal from Kenya in a world leader of 1: 43.11.

Tshepiso Masalela (Getty)

Nobody waceted to go with the pacemaker in a slow women 1500m and in the final round Burn-up Nelly Chepchirchir Stode Clear in 4: 05.00 from Susan Ejore when the Britain’s Jemma Reekie finished third.

The men 5000m was slow in the same way with Reynold Cheruiyot from Kenya who won in 13: 16.40 on his Diamond League debut by Samuel Samuel Téfera and Dominic Lobalu for a crowd with several world and Olympic champion Mo Farah, who now lives in Doha.

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Shanieka Ricketts from Jamaica won the Triple -jump for ladies in Doha with 14.72 m (3.2) for Olympic champion Thea Lafond by Dominica.